Chapter Summaries

Andrew explained how Vought’s release of Compound Five turned Earth into a chaotic world filled with Ability Users, then revealed his plan to separate the world of The Boys as a trial for preventing future world fusions. He introduced DC Iron Man to this Universe’s Iron Man, and the two immediately clashed over which Tony Stark was superior.

• Andrew explained that Vought had created Homelander and The Seven with Compound Five, then released the formula to create an army and pursue Nazi ideals.
• Compound Five spread worldwide, awakening abilities in billions and triggering chaos that kept Captain, Iron Man, and other heroes overwhelmed.
• Andrew told DC Iron Man he planned to separate Vought’s world so the Universe would restore people to ordinary lives and erase their memories of becoming Ability Users.
• Andrew brought DC Iron Man to Los Angeles, where Iron Man defeated several Ability Users before mistaking DC Iron Man for an impostor and firing a Pulse Cannon at him.
• Andrew explained that the two Iron Men were alternate versions of Tony Stark and left them to choose whether to merge or remain separate.
• Iron Man rejected merging, and DC Iron Man boasted about his superiority before Andrew mocked his thick skin.

Andrew activated a magic array in Hell to separate worlds fused with the Main Universe, while allies and enemies from across the multiverse converged around the operation. He began peeling away The Boys and Heroes worlds as several powerful entities attacked, leaving the separation underway and the Five Creator Gods confronting the Crimson Demon God.

• Iron Man and DC Iron Man exchanged knowledge, and Andrew erased DC Iron Man's memories so he could become independent.
• Andrew gathered Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Loki, Scarlet Witch, and a Vishanti avatar to activate the World Separation and Hell Stabilization techniques.
• Andrew detected dozens of worlds attached to the Main Universe and began separating The Boys and Heroes together because they were entangled.
• Homelander and other ability users flickered as their worlds began separating, and Hiroshi Nakamura and Sylar appeared in Hell before Iron Man and Doctor Strange stopped the interference.
• Serpent God Set and Xithome attacked the Main Universe, but the Watcher and the Vishanti intercepted them as Shuma-Gorath and the Crimson Demon God also joined the assault.
• God Andrew blocked Shuma-Gorath's attacks, and the Five Creator Gods appeared to stop the Crimson Demon God's assault on the Main Universe.

The Crimson Demon God separated Andrew’s Ability Universe and forced the multiversal entities into a high-stakes showdown there, with the winner claiming half of each loser’s Origin Universe. The Five Creator Gods joined to protect cosmic balance, and the chapter ended with Death and Ganahta chosen as their fighters.

• The Crimson Demon God used rune-covered chains and the Crimson Universe’s power to separate the Ability Universe, linking everyone’s true bodies to it and threatening them with backlash if they refused his game.
• The Crimson Demon God announced that each contestant would send a sliver of origin essence into the new universe, where they could use only abilities; the winner would take half of each loser’s Origin Universe.
• Andrew suspected the Mastermind had inspired the contest, then secured the Vishanti as allies by promising to trade them Chthon’s origin essence and help them defeat him.
• Eye Demon Shuma, the Vishanti, Andrew, Serpent God Set, and Great Demon God Mephisto agreed to participate, while the Watcher and the Five Creator Gods were initially assigned as witnesses.
• Death announced that the Five Creator Gods would join the showdown to prevent anyone from advancing beyond the multiversal level, and the Main Universe became their stake.
• The Crimson Demon God allowed the Five Creator Gods to send two fighters, so Death and Ganahta were chosen; Galactus told Ganahta to follow Death’s instructions.

Andrew and the other multiversal entities launched their duel in the Ability Universe, each looking for ways to gain an advantage. As Andrew prepared to focus on the contest, he left Tony in charge of Earth and reactivated the Hell Solidification Array, though the other entities’ scrutiny prevented him from using it openly.

• After the multiversal entities signed the contract and sent their origin essence into the Ability Universe, Andrew used a Forgetting Spell on their Origin Essence Clones while keeping his own memories intact.
• Death recruited Wade to help her win, but planned to send him into the Ability Universe only during the final battle; Andrew let him go, confident that his hidden tricks would make Wade his pawn.
• The separation of The Boys world restored Earth and erased most people’s memories of the upheaval, while Iron Man and Ancient One discussed how easily reality and memory could change.
• Andrew made Tony a subordinate god, gave him an ability for immortality, and put him in charge of Earth before returning to the Demon King’s Palace.
• Andrew reactivated the Hell Solidification Array and sensed the Ability Universe’s Hell, but stopped short of solidifying it because the multiversal entities were watching.

Andrew entered the Black Robe Ability Universe, where he planned to build his strength by gaining the world's favor and recruiting powerful people through contracts. He targeted Starlight Annie as his first ally and warned her that The Deep would assault her after she joined The Seven.

• Andrew arrived in New York with the beginner-level Lord of Hell ability and realized he needed to raise Hell's solidification progress by earning reputation.
• Andrew watched Homelander and Queen Maeve stop an armored-truck robbery, then researched Starlight Annie and the superpowered Hiroshi Nakamura and Peter Perry.
• Starlight Annie learned she had been selected to join The Seven and excitedly set out for Vought headquarters the next day.
• Andrew posed as an Asian rideshare driver, told Annie he could foresee the future, and warned her that The Deep would humiliate her after the welcoming ceremony.
• Annie rejected Andrew's warning and demanded to get out, while Andrew told her to accept his terms in her heart if she later felt humiliated and hopeless.

Andrew secured Annie as his subordinate after she rejected The Deep’s coercion and exposed the corruption inside The Seven. He sent her back to Vought as an undercover agent tasked with gaining popularity while he prepared to undermine the company, then confronted Translucent, who had followed him.

• Andrew warned Annie about The Deep and waited outside Vought as she joined The Seven.
• The Deep threatened Annie and demanded that she service him, but Andrew’s voice reassured her that The Deep had no real authority.
• Annie blasted The Deep in the crotch and left after discovering that Translucent had watched without helping her.
• Andrew explained that Annie’s agreement formed a contract and told her to stay in The Seven, build her popularity, and help destroy Vought.
• Andrew modified Annie’s phone so she could contact him privately, and Annie left to think over what had happened.
• Translucent followed Andrew into an empty alley and demanded to know who he was and what his relationship with Annie was.

Andrew defeated Translucent, forced him to sign a Soul Pact, and ordered him to keep working at Vought. Translucent obeyed Andrew’s warning about an upcoming wiretap, but his attempt to enter a women’s restroom triggered a curse and created a public-relations crisis for Vought.

• Andrew beat Translucent with his umbrella, then put a mechanical spider bomb inside him to force him to surrender.
• Translucent agreed to sell his soul to Andrew, who took control of his soul and ordered him to continue working at Vought.
• Andrew told Translucent not to interfere when someone tried to plant a wiretap at Vought and cursed him to suffer pain if he entered a women’s restroom.
• Translucent decided not to warn Homelander and went to a women’s restroom, where the curse made him convulse outside the door.
• Madelyn handled the resulting crisis by claiming Translucent had been injured while investigating a criminal, and Vought’s explanation was widely accepted.

The Seven welcomed Starlight Annie, prepared for A-Train’s race, and planned a crackdown on ability-using criminals while Hughie went to plant a wiretap for Billy. Andrew warned Billy about the danger, marked him and Hughie, then left to pursue other contracts and picked up hospital orderly Peter Perry.

• Madelyn reprimanded Translucent, and Homelander led The Seven’s meeting to welcome Starlight Annie and announce A-Train’s race against Shockwave.
• Homelander assigned The Seven to hunt ability-using criminals and sent Annie to work with Queen Maeve.
• Billy instructed Hughie to plant a wiretap in The Seven’s conference hall so they could expose Vought.
• Andrew confronted Billy, warned him that Hughie would be in danger, and left marks on both men that could let him help them later.
• Andrew considered the limited effect of Translucent’s World's Favor, then drove to pick up Peter Perry, who seemed exhausted.

Andrew recruited Peter Perry as a potential ally, marked him, and collected his blood to locate his father, while preparing to use Hiroshi Nakamura’s time-space ability. Hughie planted a wiretap at Vought Tower as Translucent secretly witnessed him, and Andrew began persuading Hiroshi to join his organization.

• Andrew told Peter Perry that he had an ability, marked him, and hinted that flight belonged to Peter’s brother Nathan.
• Andrew collected Peter’s blood to find his supposedly dead father, then located Hiroshi Nakamura and sent a Mechanical Parrot to monitor him.
• Andrew killed a group of gang members in New York to take their souls before flying to Japan.
• Hughie accepted A-Train’s apology and planted a wiretap beneath the conference table while Translucent watched and resigned himself to working as a mole.
• Hiroshi Nakamura briefly stopped time, and Andrew used the Mechanical Parrot to tell him he was a prophesied Redeemer who could save the world.
• Hiroshi eagerly considered joining Andrew’s organization despite its dangers, while Andrew recognized that his personality made him easy to recruit.

Andrew’s attempt to recruit Hiroshi Nakamura ended in Nakamura’s death when Chthon turned Yumiko against him, though Andrew salvaged Nakamura’s abilities in a mechanical parrot named Akwan. Back in New York, Starlight Annie learned that Vought controlled even Queen Maeve’s staged crime investigations.

• Hiroshi Nakamura pledged himself to Andrew’s organization, but Yumiko attacked him at work, and Chthon made her explode, killing Nakamura and injuring office workers.
• Andrew used collected souls to let the Mechanical Parrot absorb Nakamura’s blood and soul, gaining limited teleportation and Time Stop abilities; he named the parrot Akwan.
• Andrew found that Chthon had taken nine other superheroes from Yumiko’s company, then returned to New York and planned to gather souls from local gangs.
• Queen Maeve and Starlight Annie filmed a staged investigation into murdered ability users, and Maeve explained that Vought approved and carefully selected every patrol.

Annie learned from Queen Maeve that Vought treated superheroes as performers and products, but she stayed determined to expose the truth. Andrew recruited Peter after his rooftop fall revealed his Mimicry Ability, then offered campaign money to Nathan in exchange for help.

• Queen Maeve told Annie that Vought’s superheroes were actors and products, and Annie resolved to expose their true nature.
• Andrew asked Annie to arrange time alone with Queen Maeve so he could turn her into one of his allies.
• Peter jumped from a rooftop to test whether Nathan could fly, and Andrew secretly stopped Nathan from reaching him.
• Facing death, Peter accepted Andrew’s conditions, and a mechanical bird carried him safely back to the rooftop.
• Andrew explained that Peter’s Mimicry Ability let him copy his mother’s Precognition and would let him copy Nathan’s Flight Ability; Peter agreed to train and help save the world.
• Andrew offered to sponsor ten million dollars for Nathan’s campaign in exchange for his assistance.

Andrew trained Peter to use his mimicry ability just as Mad Max 4 merged into the Ability Universe and began sending wastelanders into New York. Andrew and Peter traveled to the affiliated world, where they interrupted a fight involving Max, Nux, Capable, and Immortan Joe’s women.

• Nathan accepted Andrew’s ten-million-dollar sponsorship and left Peter with him for ability training.
• Andrew repeatedly had the Mechanical Big Bird drop Peter, prompting Peter to fly briefly when he grew angry and punched the bird.
• Mad Max 4 merged into the Ability Universe as an affiliated world, and people began appearing between the wasteland and New York as violence broke out.
• Andrew learned from the Lord of Hell that affiliated worlds could provide souls and world’s favor, then had Akwan lock onto the wasteland’s coordinates.
• Andrew took Peter and the Mechanical Big Bird to the wasteland, where they stopped Max, Nux, Capable, and the five women during their fight.
• Nux identified himself as a War Boy and urged Andrew to capture Capable, while Capable warned that Immortan Joe would kill and eat them.

Andrew learned how nuclear war had turned the world into a wasteland and secured the souls of Capable, Max, and the five women by promising to protect them. Rather than flee from Immortan Joe, Andrew chose to confront him, and his group watched the warlord’s convoy approach through a holographic projection.

• Andrew questioned Max about the wasteland’s origins, and Max explained that nuclear war had devastated the world after he had worked as a police officer.
• Peter demonstrated that he could fly, convincing Nux that he was a god, while Andrew dismissed Max’s claim that he could fly at night.
• Capable explained that she had helped Immortan Joe’s five women escape and described how Joe controlled water and used the Hall of Heroes to manipulate the War Boys.
• Andrew made a deal to protect Capable, Max, and the five women in exchange for one condition, and their souls became his.
• Andrew rejected Capable’s plan to escape to the Green Place and ordered her to drive toward Immortan Joe, while Nux agreed to follow him if he could defeat Joe.
• Andrew sent the Mechanical Bird to scout Immortan Joe’s convoy and announced that he intended to take its music vehicle.

Andrew took control of Immortan Joe’s convoy, killed him, and won the War Boys’ worship. With Peter, Max, and Capable at his side, he prepared to conquer the reinforcements and claim the wasteland.

• Andrew freed Max, introduced his plan to build a city, and sent Peter into the sky to snipe Immortan Joe’s men.
• Andrew used his power over machines to stop the convoy and disable the War Boys’ guns while Peter shot at the attackers.
• Andrew deflected the War Boys’ explosive spears, defeated Immortan Joe’s sons and men, and killed Immortan Joe.
• Nux and many War Boys knelt before Andrew, while Peter, Max, and Capable helped eliminate the remaining resistance.
• Andrew claimed the War Boys and ordered them to drive against reinforcements from the Bullet Farm and Car Town.

Andrew recruited Peter into the Salvation Organization and captured Bullet Farm and Gas Town, then revealed that Claire was Peter’s biological niece and had a self-healing ability. The chapter left Peter and Claire together as Andrew planned to consolidate his new forces.

• Peter agreed to help Andrew save worlds after learning that New York connected Earth and Wasteland World, and he searched for stranded New Yorkers.
• Peter spotted reinforcements from Bullet Farm and Gas Town, while Andrew used his powers to disable their vehicles and lead the attack.
• Peter rescued Claire from a cage, and Andrew killed the Bullet Farm Boss and Gas Town Boss before forcing their people to surrender.
• Andrew brought Bullet Farm and Gas Town under his control and ordered the survivors to return to The Citadel.
• Andrew told Peter and Claire that they were biological uncle and niece, that Claire was Nathan’s daughter, and that she possessed a self-healing ability.

After Immortan Joe’s defeat, Andrew began organizing The Citadel’s resources and preparing to unite the Wasteland’s factions while helping its starving inhabitants. He took Claire back to New York to gather food and supplies, leaving Peter to scout nearby settlements and invite them to The Citadel.

• Peter apologized to Claire for Nathan’s abandonment, explained that they could return home, and told her that he and Andrew had come to save the world.
• Andrew brought Peter and Claire into The Citadel, where the War Boys hailed him as a god after learning he had killed Immortan Joe.
• Capable and Max led the remaining War Boys to eliminate Immortan Joe’s trusted subordinates, and Capable explained that The Citadel had enough underground water but needed food for its people.
• Andrew ordered Peter to scout nearby factions and distribute flyers inviting them to The Citadel, while Capable and Max organized the base and moved commoners there.
• Andrew asked Claire to donate some blood because it could help the Wastelanders, then took her to New York so they could arrange food and supplies.

Andrew recruited Annie and Queen Maeve to the Salvation Organization, bringing them and Claire to the Wasteland World and explaining the organization’s mission. Queen Maeve agreed to help the Wastelanders if Homelander failed to arrive within a month, but insisted she would not join unless Andrew could defeat him.

• Andrew let Claire call her adoptive father and accepted her as a reserve member of the Salvation Organization until she graduated from high school.
• Annie told Andrew that strange people had appeared in New York, and he instructed her to lure Queen Maeve into an alley.
• Annie ambushed Queen Maeve and revealed her plan to expose The Seven’s crimes, while Andrew removed the women’s Vought tracking devices.
• Andrew transported Claire, Annie, and Queen Maeve to the Wasteland World and explained the Salvation Organization’s mission and the danger posed by spatial turbulence.
• Queen Maeve said she wanted to get rid of Homelander and would help the Wastelanders if he did not arrive within a month, but would not join unless Andrew could defeat him.

Queen Maeve agreed to stay in the Wasteland World and help Andrew, while Annie returned to Vought and concealed Maeve’s disappearance from Homelander. Andrew brought supplies to The Citadel and began feeding its starving slaves, rekindling Maeve’s desire to be a hero.

• Queen Maeve told Annie and Claire that Homelander was a dangerous tyrant and agreed to Andrew’s deal to help defeat him.
• Andrew took Queen Maeve to The Citadel, then returned Annie to her world and instructed her to report Maeve missing without revealing the truth.
• Annie told Homelander that Queen Maeve had vanished during their patrol, and Homelander flew off to investigate the disappearances.
• Andrew and the Mechanical Parrot transported food and supplies to The Citadel, where Andrew announced that the people could eat their fill under his rule.
• Andrew had the War Boys distribute bread and drinks to the starving slaves, whose hunger and renewed hope moved Queen Maeve.

Andrew and Queen Maeve prepared The Citadel to receive War Boys while Capable welcomed a survivor from the Green Place and pledged to help build a safe home. Peter reported that the War Boys were approaching, and Andrew chose to wait for them at The Citadel, where Queen Maeve would soon take charge.

• Andrew planned to acquire food-producing factories and gather thousands of souls to conceal the Space Channel.
• Capable welcomed Queen Maeve and pledged to help the Salvation Organization save the Wasteland World.
• Peter returned with a survivor from the Green Place, who told Capable that almost everyone there had died.
• Peter reported that nearby Gathering Places had received flyers and that War Boys were approaching The Citadel to seize its food.
• Queen Maeve offered to confront the War Boys, but Andrew told her to wait and said he would leave The Citadel's development to her after the battle.
• Peter confirmed the War Boys had arrived, and Andrew ordered more instant noodles prepared for them.

Andrew and Queen Maeve defeated the biker gang and used the surrender of nearby factions to expand the Citadel’s power. As settlers began building a city, the Mechanical Big Bird returned with maps of more distant factions.

• Andrew stopped the bikers’ motorcycles and disabled their guns, allowing Queen Maeve, Capable, Peter, and the War Boys to defeat them and force the survivors to surrender.
• Andrew marked the bikers with a snake that would consume their souls if they rebelled, then announced his plan to unite the surrounding settlements and build a city.
• Queen Maeve urged Andrew to address the settlers’ illnesses and radiation exposure, and Andrew said Claire’s universal blood could help with some illnesses while he sought other solutions.
• Over the next three days, Andrew stopped incoming vehicles and guns while Queen Maeve’s forces defeated each arriving faction, and the Citadel gained more souls and the world’s favor.
• Andrew assigned Peter to bring settlers to the Citadel and Queen Maeve to lead city construction, while Akwan’s ability supplied building materials and machinery.
• The Mechanical Big Bird returned after scouting distant factions and recording their locations.