Recaps

Chaos became Gaia Great Emperor after destroying Gold City and defeating the assembled factions, then allied with D and learned the history of the Wars of the Future. Three years later, the balance of power had shifted, and Ace set out to free Katakuri and other prisoners from Impel Down.

• Crocodile intercepted Barrett, Kuma fought Blackbeard with a Mirror Image, and Betty’s empowered Homies attacked Ochoku and Silver Axe as the factions converged on Gold City.
• Chaos revealed himself as the Golden Emperor, declared the era Gaia, killed most of Gold City’s people, and raised the city into the sky with the White White Sea.
• Chaos killed Golden Lion and defeated the Whitebeard Pirates, taking Whitebeard’s soul and killing Jozu and Vista as Marco and Ace fought to buy Ace time to escape.
• Chaos battled the Marines, Revolutionary Army, and pirate factions, killed Tsuru, and fought Garp, Sengoku, Kaido, and Dragon before unleashing a massive ten-colored sun.
• D appeared after the devastation and offered Chaos cooperation against Im, then took the surviving factions away as Im and the Five Elders arrived.
• D revealed that he had created Kaido, Blackbeard, and their followers as test subjects, turned them into obedient puppets, and ordered Dragon to unite their forces with the Revolutionary Army.
• Chaos restored Gold City, allied with D, and studied the history of Im and D, the Great Kingdom, and the Wars of the Future while the world called the disaster the Third God Incident.
• Three years later, Gion and Chaton became Admirals, Ace left Luffy to pursue his own goals, and Ace entered Impel Down to free Katakuri before heading for the other prisoners.

Chaos revived Stussy, gathered greater power, and led the Richest Group into a war against the World Government and Im. After three days of devastation, Chaos detonated the Super Great Ivans on Pluto with Im, while his allies returned to find his soul clone still dormant.

• Chaos captured Ochoku and took the Tanuki Fruit, then used the underworld path to consume incomplete Devil Fruit demons and strengthen the Richest Group before reviving Stussy.
• Chaos underwent Law’s Immortality Operation, then took the Kumo Kumo no Mi from Hody Jones on Fish-Man Island and claimed the island for the Richest Group.
• Archino attacked the Straw Hat Pirates’ island, killed Momonosuke and several Straw Hats, and fought D until Chaos arrived and joined the battle.
• Chaos and D fought across Uranus and space until the Richest Group trapped D in an asteroid explosion, captured him, and took his Brain-Brain Fruit for Caesar.
• Chaos forced Kaido and Blackbeard to join the Richest Group, then fired a planet-destroying cannon that obliterated Mary Geoise and began the war against Im and the World Government.
• Chaos fought Im across the world for three days, destroying islands and countries before drawing their battle into space and reaching Pluto.
• Chaos grappled Im and ordered the Super Great Ivans detonated, destroying Pluto and creating a second sun.
• Stussy and the others returned to their moon base and found that Chaos’s clone, which held half his soul, had not awakened, so Baccarat said they would need to walk the road to the underworld again.