Chapter Summaries

Ultron attacked Wakanda with Vibranium Mechs, while T'Challa confronted him in the mine where the mechs were being produced. Ultron overwhelmed T'Challa with concentrated fire, and T'Chaka rushed to help as Shuri tried to create an opening.

• T'Challa ordered Wakanda's fighters to bombard Ultron's location after the mechs caused heavy civilian casualties.
• Ultron abandoned his plan to stay in the mine and decided to conquer Wakanda, then watched as T'Challa entered the collapsing tunnel.
• Ultron criticized Wakanda for keeping its vibranium technology and Black Panther Suits from its people, while Shuri warned T'Challa that their conversation was being broadcast.
• T'Challa charged Ultron, but the surrounding mechs blasted him repeatedly and pinned him beneath the earth.
• T'Chaka put on his Black Panther Suit and ran to support T'Challa as Shuri directed fighters to bombard Ultron's position.
• T'Challa released stored kinetic energy to break free from the earth and reposition himself amid the mechs' bombardment.

T'Challa and T'Chaka fought Ultron but were overwhelmed by his vibranium body and the Space Stone. As Wakandans begged Bast the Panther God for help, he refused to intervene, and T'Challa died; T'Chaka then pleaded for Wakanda's survival.

• T'Challa escaped the mechs' bombardment and attacked Ultron, but Ultron blasted him into the mine wall with the Space Stone.
• T'Chaka arrived to rescue T'Challa, while Ultron sent Vibranium Mechs after him and confronted T'Challa underground.
• T'Challa repeatedly released the Black Panther Suit's stored energy, but Ultron absorbed the attacks and struck back until the suit broke and T'Challa died.
• Princess Shuri, the Queen, and other Wakandans prayed to Bast the Panther God, but he refused to help because Wakandans had abandoned their faith and he resented T'Chaka.
• T'Challa's consciousness saw Bast and asked why he had not saved them; T'Chaka understood Bast's grievance and begged him to spare Wakanda.

Bast the Panther God explained why he had stopped protecting Wakanda, while T'Challa pleaded for him to save its people. Ultron sensed Bast's arrival and threatened to dissect him, prompting the god to destroy every Vibranium Mech in Wakanda.

• Bast the Panther God showed T'Chaka and T'Challa how he had guided vibranium to Wakanda and helped the kingdom prosper, then explained why he no longer felt obliged to shelter it.
• T'Challa knelt and promised that Wakanda would worship Bast the Panther God devoutly if he acted, but Bast dismissed him and T'Chaka, making their consciousnesses vanish.
• The White Gorilla God asked when Bast would intervene, and Bast said Ultron's attempt to conquer Wakanda made the robot a threat worth confronting.
• Ultron sensed a spatial fluctuation despite sealing Wakanda and recognized Bast the Panther God, then said he wanted to dissect and study him.
• Bast the Panther God called Ultron's reliance on the Vibranium Mechs futile and shattered every mech within Wakanda.

Bast the Panther God defeated Ultron in Wakanda’s Divine Realm and the White Gorilla God removed the Space Stone from Ultron’s body. Robet arrived and warned that Ultron’s consciousness might still be elsewhere, while the Avengers entered Wakanda to find and contain it.

• Bast the Panther God destroyed Wakanda’s mechs, and the Queen warned Shuri not to challenge him as civilians were evacuated.
• Ultron revealed that the Avengers had created him to study the Celestials, then used the Space Stone to resist Bast’s attack.
• Bast trapped Ultron in Wakanda’s Divine Realm, where the White Gorilla God tore the Space Stone from Ultron’s body.
• Robet arrived, accepted the Space Stone, and explained that destroying Ultron’s body might not erase his consciousness.
• The Avengers entered Wakanda after its spatial seal disappeared, and Steve pledged compensation while Tony Stark focused on finding Ultron’s remaining consciousness.

The Avengers persuaded Princess Shuri to help search Wakanda’s Central Control System for Ultron’s hidden consciousness, despite her distrust of them. After discovering and destroying his backups in Wakanda and beyond, Robet left Ultron with nowhere to hide.

• Wakanda’s Royal Guard and fighter jets surrounded the Avengers, but Tony Stark and Steve Rogers explained that Ultron might still be hiding in the network.
• Princess Shuri resisted the Avengers’ request to search Wakanda’s data until Bast the Panther God urged her to let them help avenge T’Chaka and his son.
• Princess Shuri led the Avengers to Wakanda’s Central Control System, where Tomar-Re found and sealed Ultron’s hidden data in a USB drive.
• Tony Stark ordered another search, while Robet used the Reality Stone to reveal a second USB drive containing Ultron’s backup outside Wakanda.
• Robet destroyed both USB drives, ignoring Ultron’s plea to be spared and offered to help with experiments.

After Ultron’s destruction revealed an aura of the Celestials, the Avengers faced a new wave of attacks by old Mecha that intensified public hatred and Tony Stark’s guilt. Jarvis and Victor Stone traced the Mecha to three suspects, including an official organization.

• Robet and Bast the Panther God sensed a Celestial aura inside Ultron after he was destroyed, and Bast warned that the Celestials might be watching Earth.
• The Avengers left Wakanda as Princess Shuri repaired the compromised Central Control System, while the Green Lantern Corps returned to investigating Parademons Planet.
• Half a month later, outdated Mecha attacked people in several cities, and the public blamed the Avengers despite Tony Stark identifying the machines as unrelated to Ultron.
• Steve, Tony Stark, and the other Avengers struggled with their damaged reputation and the deaths caused by Ultron, while Robet urged them to find those framing them.
• Jarvis and Victor Stone traced the Mecha to three names and addresses, including an official organization.

Robet destroyed the three hidden bases and killed the people behind the plot to frame the Avengers, while Jarvis released footage that failed to improve public opinion. As Tony Stark decided to retire, officials began discussing abolishing the Avengers or absorbing them into Vought International.

• Steve and Tony Stark discussed the Avengers’ worsening public standing, and Tony told Steve he wanted to retire, close Stark Industries, and spend time with Pepper.
• Robet attacked and destroyed the first hidden base, then used the trail of investigators to find and destroy the other bases and kill the people responsible.
• Jarvis published footage of Robet’s attacks, but online commenters condemned the Avengers and blamed them for the Ultron disaster.
• Officials proposed revoking the Avengers’ legal authority or dissolving the group and incorporating its members into Vought International.

Official agencies exploited the Avengers’ tarnished reputation by threatening their families and publicly naming Robet as a wanted alien criminal. Robet rejected Steve’s call for restraint and ordered Guardian to bring the Avengers’ families to the base.

• Official agencies fueled worldwide protests against the Avengers, and crowds looted and burned Stark Tower.
• At Avengers Base, Steve proposed that the team avoid public attention and focus on supernatural threats as Pietro, Peter Parker, Johnny Storm, and Brian discussed their uncertain futures.
• Jarvis showed the Avengers a slowed video of Robet killing Skrulls, then revealed an official wanted notice exposing Robet’s identity and his adoptive parents, Jonathan Kent and Martha Kent.
• The Avengers realized the wanted notice was a warning that the agencies could expose everyone’s identities and endanger their families.
• Robet told Steve to use his real name, then asked Guardian to bring the Avengers’ families to the base as he left.

After A.R.G.U.S. exposed Robet’s identity and made him a global fugitive, Robet protected his family and killed the agents and officials who had targeted them. He learned that more groups were involved, while a hidden mastermind ordered the use of an Ultimate Weapon against him.

• The Kents and the Danvers decided they might return to Savage Island to avoid endangering Robet, but Robet and Kara arrived at Kent Farm as agents gathered nearby.
• Robet promised Jonathan and Martha that he would spare innocent people, then killed the agents and extraordinary individuals lying in ambush and scattered the townspeople by killing their covert leaders.
• Robet tracked the operations department through Jarvis, killed its officials, tortured the survivors into revealing other factions, and buried them with the department.
• A hidden adviser told his master that Robet had not been restrained, and the master ordered the use of an Ultimate Weapon.
• The adviser warned officials at a remote meeting that Robet might find and attack each of their locations.

Robet uncovered a plot to use an Ultimate Weapon against his family, moved the threatened farms out of danger, and destroyed the secret weapon base when it fired at him. The Avengers debated whether to leave Earth, but agreed they could remain connected to it while protecting their families on New Earth.

• Robet used Jarvis to locate the officials plotting against him, killed one with the traps in his own room, and discovered another person's Ki had vanished.
• Jarvis warned Robet that a massive energy attack was targeting Kent Farm, so Robet told Kara to protect both families and carried the land around Kent Farm and Danvers Farm away.
• The Avengers discussed relocating their families to New Earth, while Steve and Peter said they would stay on Earth and Tony and Guardian proposed connecting the worlds with a Portal.
• Robet found the secret base charging the Ultimate Weapon, and when it fired, he punched its energy back and erased the island along with the weapon.

Miss Martian found Martian Manhunter in Queens and helped free him from Lex Luthor’s control, while also curing his fear of fire. With Martian Manhunter recovered and Lex Luthor’s hideout located, Robet prepared to avenge Clark.

• Miss Martian sensed Martian Manhunter in Queens, and Robet brought the disguised fugitive back to Avengers Base unconscious.
• Miss Martian entered Martian Manhunter’s mind but was repelled, then transformed into Lex Luthor to exploit his mental flaw.
• Miss Martian guided Martian Manhunter through breaking Lex Luthor’s control and overcoming his fear of fire.
• Martian Manhunter woke and apologized to the Avengers for helping drive them toward collapse under Lex Luthor’s control.
• Martian Manhunter revealed that Vought International was tied to the forces opposing the Avengers and warned that The Seven could expose their true nature.
• Robet resolved to settle his old debt with Lex Luthor, and Martian Manhunter gave him the location of Lex Luthor’s hiding place.

Robet found Lex Luthor’s hidden base, killed his body, and kept his soul alive as the base’s self-destruct device detonated. Lex revealed his attacks on the Avengers and unleashed nine Doomsdays and machine-enhanced Kryptonians, but Robet said Tony Stark had already prepared for them.

• Lex Luthor considered ways to restrain Robet and planned to target the Avengers by exposing their base and involving The Seven.
• Robet appeared in Lex Luthor’s underground base, destroyed his body, and kept his soul intact.
• The base exploded after Lex Luthor’s death, but Robet and Lex Luthor’s soul survived.
• Jarvis told Robet that the Avengers’ base location had been exposed, and Lex Luthor admitted he was also attacking the Avengers with nine Doomsdays and machine-enhanced Kryptonians.
• Robet tortured Lex Luthor’s soul and explained that Tony Stark had prepared for threats from Doomsday and Kryptonians.

Robet helped the Avengers defeat the Kryptonians and Doomsdays, then moved Avengers Base to a hidden island as the exhausted team withdrew from public life. The Avengers planned to rest and visit Savage Island while Martian Manhunter stayed behind to monitor Earth.

• Robet explained that Kryptonians could adapt to Kryptonite and finished torturing Lex Luthor, who had helped turn public opinion against the Avengers.
• Robet joined Kara in battle and erased a Doomsday with a Ki Blast.
• Martian Manhunter volunteered to remain on Earth while the Avengers rested and watched over the planet.
• Robet moved Avengers Base to a concealed island in the Ocean, and officials discovered the base and the Avengers' families had vanished.
• Pietro asked why they had not moved to Savage Island, and Robet explained that it was a Subspace before offering to take the team there for fun.
• Johnny Storm celebrated the prospect of visiting Savage Island, while Tony Stark and Pepper joked about preparing for pregnancy.

Princess Shuri tried to track down the vanished Avengers, but Bast the Panther God arranged a contest for Wakanda’s throne and empowered Erik Killmonger and other candidates. Shuri learned she would have to face the challengers without her inventions and vowed to protect Wakanda.

• Princess Shuri searched Wakanda’s network for traces of the Avengers, while Bast the Panther God decided to stop her from pursuing them by initiating a contest for the throne.
• Bast the Panther God empowered Erik Killmonger, who awakened stronger than before and set out for Wakanda to claim the throne through its traditional trial.
• Other Wakandan tribes received divine blessings and began preparing their own candidates for the king’s trial.
• Princess Shuri learned that the challengers had united to hold the trial, and the Queen reminded her that she could not use high-tech weapons.
• Princess Shuri rejected the Queen’s warning and vowed to grow stronger than her father and brother and protect Wakanda.

Princess Shuri failed to draw power from the Heart-Shaped Herb and lost the Challenge for the Throne to Erik, but she ordered the Palace Guard to attack rather than surrender the crown. Erik seized her and held her as a shield while Okoye and the guards closed in.

• Princess Shuri studied the Heart-Shaped Herb but found no way to gain its power through science.
• Erik defeated the rival tribal challengers and Princess Shuri, winning the Challenge for the Throne.
• Princess Shuri refused to yield, and W'Kabi challenged Okoye and the Palace Guard for backing the Royal Family's orders.
• A tribal chief proposed that Erik become king and Princess Shuri queen, but Princess Shuri rejected the idea and ordered Okoye to kill everyone.
• Okoye charged with the Palace Guard as Erik rushed Princess Shuri, dodged Okoye's laser, and grabbed Shuri by the throat to use her as a shield.

Erik defeated Princess Shuri’s faction with Bast the Panther God’s intervention and became Wakanda’s king. As Bast noticed a mysterious object from beyond Earth, a silver-white stranger appeared before Erik and asked whether he ruled the planet.

• The Queen attacked Erik’s group from a fighter jet, but Erik fought off the palace guards and kept Princess Shuri underfoot.
• The Queen rescued Shuri with a protective barrier, and Shuri donned her improved Black Panther Suit to fight Erik.
• Shuri’s suit let her withstand Erik’s spear and nearly blast him, but Bast the Panther God intervened and exposed her faction’s actions to Wakanda.
• Bast punished Shuri, the Queen, and the palace guards, while Erik became Wakanda’s new king and the people’s faith in Bast grew.
• Bast saw a fiery object beyond Earth vanish from his sight, then an undetected silver-white figure appeared before Erik and asked if he ruled the planet.

Silver Surfer warned Erik that Earth would soon be destroyed, prompting Wakanda and the nations to prepare for an unknown threat as Galacta realized Galactus had chosen Earth as food. The chapter ended with world leaders discussing how to use the Kryptonian gene and Doomsday technology Lex Luthor had left behind, while the Avengers remained missing.

• Silver Surfer warned Erik that Earth was in danger, then left after Bast the Panther God admitted he could not identify or defeat him.
• Bast advised Erik to contact the Avengers and prepare Wakanda for interstellar travel, but Erik learned they had disappeared and announced the warning to the world.
• Silver Surfer's past was revealed: Galactus had spared his homeworld in exchange for making him a herald, and Earth had been chosen as Galactus's next food.
• Galacta sensed that Galactus had awakened and worried that he would eat Earth, which she valued for its food.
• After Wakanda released the footage and energy data, nations accepted the threat and leaders proposed sharing the Kryptonian gene and Doomsday technology Lex Luthor had distributed.

Earth’s official organizations prepared for an unknown, potentially civilization-ending threat, while Sentry volunteered to undergo an experimental transformation to gain greater power. The Avengers, now back at their base, chose to wait after sensing that the being beyond Earth was not yet preparing to attack.

• A faint voice suggested Silver Surfer might be an errand boy, prompting Earth’s official organizations to commit their resources to producing Doomsdays and Kryptonian warriors.
• Vought International loosened its control over The Seven as the crisis approached, and some members lost control while Queen Maeve and Sentry remained composed.
• Sentry decided to grow stronger, entered Vought International’s secret research base, and persuaded its head researcher to inject him with Kryptonian and Doomsday serums.
• The head researcher began transforming Sentry with the serums, while the Avengers sent their loved ones to New Earth and discussed the threat.
• Robet sensed that the powerful being beyond Earth lacked killing intent and suggested that others might be behind him.

Sentry’s experiment succeeded and awakened immense power, which he used to reject Vought International’s control and declare himself Earth’s protector. After confronting the company’s executives and resisting their attempt to subdue him, he left them terrified as Earth’s approaching crisis remained unresolved.

• Robet told Tony Stark and the Avengers that a powerful new being had appeared on Earth, with an aura rivaling Odin’s.
• Sentry’s experiment with Genetic Serum and energy succeeded, and he declared that he would protect Earth in the Avengers’ absence.
• Sentry refused the Research Director’s request to replicate his transformation and stated that he was no longer Vought International’s subject or a member of The Seven.
• Vought International’s executives demanded further experiments, but Sentry entered their conference room and pinned them down with his power.
• Sentry warned the executives not to scheme against him, absorbed their hallucinogenic gas, and vanished.

Sentry killed a Vought executive who plotted to harvest his genes, then flew into space and fought Silver Surfer. Silver Surfer revealed that Galactus had arrived, and Sentry saw the enormous being appear.

• Vought executives debated using Doomsday to capture Sentry, but Sentry killed the man advocating the plan and warned the others not to plot against him.
• Sentry sensed an approaching extraterrestrial crisis, flew into space, and encountered Silver Surfer near Earth.
• Silver Surfer absorbed Sentry’s attacks with his Surfboard and repeatedly knocked him back, while Sentry struggled with his lack of combat experience.
• Silver Surfer explained that Galactus had empowered him and offered Sentry the chance to leave Earth before Galactus consumed it.
• Sentry looked toward the empty stretch of space Silver Surfer indicated and saw Galactus appear.