Chapter Summaries

Annie arrived at the Bear Shield Agency’s lunar base as its defenders were defeating the Black Order, and watched the battle rather than intervene. After Mystique disguised herself as Thanos and killed Corvus Glaive, the real battle ended with the Marines pursuing the remaining enemies and Hulk striking Thor.

• Annie teleported to the Moon and decided not to summon Zerg because the Bear Shield Agency was already winning.
• Ms. Marvel, Valkyrie, and Black Widow killed Proxima Midnight while Thor and Hulk fought Corvus Glaive and Cull Obsidian.
• Corvus Glaive tried to retreat, but a figure appearing as Thanos arrived and cut off his head.
• Rocket warned Thor that Thanos was one of their allies, and Mystique revealed herself after dropping her disguise.
• Maria Hill ordered the Marines to pursue the remaining Outriders and capture their ships.
• Hulk punched Thor after Thor stopped him from charging Thanos, and Valkyrie praised the blow.

After learning that the Black Order had been defeated, Thanos ordered Nebula to remain aboard Sanctuary II and went to the Moon to confront Earth's forces himself. The Bear Shield Bureau counted heavy casualties and began evacuations and rescue preparations before Thanos's assault craft landed near the lunar base.

• Nebula told Thanos that Supergiant, Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Cull Obsidian had been killed in battles on Earth and the Moon.
• Thanos smashed his throne, ordered Nebula to await further instructions, and set off for the lunar base in an assault craft.
• Maria Hill ordered Coulson to evacuate the wounded and secretly send selected fallen soldiers to the Church of the Holy Light for resurrection.
• Melinda reported that Nick Fury's Battlecruiser had made an emergency landing on Mars, and Hill dispatched transport ships, SCVs, and supplies to rescue it.
• Rocket warned Thor that Thanos would come after them, and an unidentified cone-shaped assault craft landed near the lunar base.

Thanos arrived at the lunar base and used the Soul Stone to control its Marines, turning the defenders’ advantage into a crisis. Thor identified the threat, and Hulk, Thor, Valkyrie, and Carol charged out to confront him as Hill and the others followed; Hulk’s first attack was about to land.

• Maria Hill ordered the base’s defenders to retreat behind the shield and prepare for Thanos’s arrival, while Annie watched him through Uatu’s lunar observation equipment.
• Thanos approached the base, demanded its three Infinity Stones, and raised his Infinity Gauntlet after Hill refused to surrender.
• Thanos used the Soul Stone to control more than a thousand Marines, who dropped their weapons and knelt; Thor explained that the Stone had taken control of their souls.
• Melinda explained that Ghost Suits protected their wearers from mental control, and Hill organized a counterattack while leaving Rocket and Barbara behind.
• Hulk, Thor, Valkyrie, and Carol charged outside to attack Thanos, followed by Hill, Natasha, Daisy, Wolverine, and other allies.
• Hulk reached Thanos first and swung his fist down toward the Titan’s head.

Thanos overwhelmed the Earth Defender Alliance heroes at the Bear Shield Bureau's lunar base, leaving only Thor and Carol Danvers standing. As Carol began gathering Binary's power for a decisive attack, Thor tried to distract Thanos, but Thanos saw through him and provoked Thor into charging in anger.

• Thanos caught Hulk's punch, threw him down, and knocked him unconscious with three blows before kicking Valkyrie away.
• Thanos uppercut Thor, sending him into Carol, then caught Logan's Adamantium claws, crushed them, broke his arm, and hurled him into Maria Hill, Melinda, and Black Widow Natasha.
• Thanos walked through Daisy Louise Johnson's shockwaves and turned them back on her, sending her into a lunar crevasse.
• Thor and Carol regrouped as the only heroes left standing, and Carol told Thor she needed time to gather Binary's cosmic power.
• Thor tried to distract Thanos by mentioning Annie Hastur and her Infinity Stones, but Thanos recognized the ploy and insulted Odin.
• Enraged by the insult, Thor's lightning surged, and he charged Thanos with his Warhammer.

Thanos defeated Thor and survived Carol's strongest attack, but Annie arrived and confronted him over the Infinity Stones. Thanos threatened to destroy Earth through Nebula, while Annie refused to surrender her stones and remained ready to fight.

• Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet to repel Thor's attacks, disarmed him, and battered him across the lunar surface.
• Carol unleashed her gathered cosmic energy at Thanos, but he survived the blast and advanced on her as she ran out of strength.
• Annie arrived on the Moon and revealed that she had more than three Infinity Stones while asking Thanos to give her the orange Soul Stone.
• Annie rejected Thanos's demand for her stones, and he guessed she was Earth's Keeper; she told him the former Keeper, The Ancient One, had been killed.
• Thanos threatened to destroy Earth and contacted Nebula, but Annie remained unconcerned and demanded the orange stone instead.

Nebula betrayed Thanos by activating a bomb threat against his ship, but Annie tricked him into surrendering the Soul Stone and let him leave believing he had all six Infinity Stones. On Titan, Thanos snapped his fingers, shattered the stones, and settled into a peaceful retirement, unaware that Annie had deceived him.

• Nebula revealed that she had planted planet-killing bombs aboard the Sanctuary II and pressed the detonator, cutting off Thanos’s attempt to threaten Earth.
• Thanos charged Annie, but his punch struck an illusion, and Annie offered to trade three stones for a chance to study the Soul Stone and a promise that he would leave Earth alone.
• Annie tricked Thanos into handing over the Soul Stone, then gave him four stones, including the fake Space, Time, and Mind Stones, before he departed for Titan.
• Annie showed Carol that she had many more stones and explained that she had followed the contract’s wording, then went to help the unconscious people, including Aunt Melinda.
• On Titan, Thanos snapped his fingers, mistook the stones’ destruction for the price of fulfilling his goal, and went to sleep believing he had eliminated half the universe’s population.

Annie left the Marvel Universe after saying goodbye to Earth’s heroes and allies. The chapter ended with Earth’s leaders discussing the aftermath of the battle, while Sally and Renault chose to remain on Earth and build their lives there.

• Annie opened a portal to another world, said goodbye to the assembled crowd, and left with the Infinity Stones she had acquired.
• Thor invited Carol for a drink, then questioned how Annie could have handed the Infinity Stones to Thanos; Carol confirmed it but kept the truth to herself.
• Sally explained that she and Renault would stay on Earth, where they had power and influence, and Renault agreed to remain at her side.
• Nick Fury told the resurrected Charles that Sally had brought him back to life and discussed the limited resurrection ability and the planned Mutant city on the Moon.
• Charles asked where Annie had gone, and Nick said she had apparently traveled to Azeroth.

Greian Stoutmantle confronted Vanessa VanCleef, who had rebuilt the Defias Brotherhood in Westfall to avenge her father and overthrow Stormwind’s rule. After Vanessa wounded his militiamen and vanished from his counterattack, Greian feared Westfall was facing a renewed rebellion.

• Greian Stoutmantle deduced that the armed strangers around Moonbrook were connected to the Flame Alliance and investigated their attacks on Stormwind forces.
• Greian and a dozen Moonbrook militiamen cornered Vanessa, who declared that the Defias Brotherhood had returned to avenge her father and fight Stormwind’s nobles.
• Vanessa revealed that she had gathered refugees and former Stonemasons Guild members into a Defias Brotherhood with more than three thousand members.
• Greian ordered his men to seize Vanessa, and she struck them with a storm of shadow-imbued knives, killing or wounding several.
• Vanessa used Vanish to escape Greian’s Holy Light attack, and Greian realized that Westfall faced serious trouble.

John Mizzriel prepared a Gurubashi Arena duel between three double-headed Ogres and Rehgar Earthfury’s captured Flame Alliance team of Farana, Dawol, and Fatty. Just as the match was about to begin, Annie appeared through a Space Gate and landed in the arena.

• John Mizzriel introduced the defending Ogre champions and the Flame Alliance challengers, explaining that Rehgar Earthfury would not fight.
• Farana apologized to Dawol for their capture, and Dawol reassured her that they were family and prepared to fight alongside Fatty.
• John Mizzriel urged the spectators to place bets while Farana and Dawol readied their weapons for the seemingly hopeless match.
• As John Mizzriel began the countdown, a blue Space Gate opened above the arena and Annie floated out, asking who had called her name.

Annie returned to Azeroth after hearing Farana call her name and appeared in the Gurubashi Arena. She seized control of the arena and left Rhaegal Earthfury and the other captives squatting by the wall, though she forgot why she had captured them.

• Annie followed a faint call through the dimensional barrier and arrived in the Gurubashi Arena, where Fatty recognized her.
• Farana identified Annie as Queen Annie Hastur and saluted her, while Dawor and the crowd realized who she was.
• Rhaegal Earthfury tried to leave, but Annie ordered him and his Orcs to stay; a group of Bariyaman Trolls threatened her.
• Annie killed the Trolls with a fireball and declared everyone in the arena her prisoner.
• Annie forced the three Ogres to surrender and made Rhaegal and his Orcs squat by the wall, then forgot why she had captured them.

Jaina failed to persuade Daelin to stay in Theramore, and he sailed north with the Seventh Fleet to defend Lordaeron. Meanwhile, Annie learned about the Flame Alliance’s troubles, rejected calls to focus on the Burning Legion, and decided to seek out Vanessa after hearing her name.

• Jaina pleaded with Daelin to avoid the Flame Alliance and remain in Theramore, but he insisted on returning to Lordaeron to fulfill his duty and avenge Derrick.
• Daelin departed with the Seventh Fleet for Tirisfal Glades, while Jaina sent a magical carrier pigeon to Orgrimmar with the fleet’s route.
• Annie heard Farana and Dawol explain the Flame Alliance’s dire situation and learned that Illidan had served as its acting leader.
• Rehgar explained why the Horde and Stormwind Alliance had joined forces against the Flame Alliance, but Annie dismissed the arguments and said they should fight their own battles first.
• Goblin pirate captain John Mystril claimed his crew had been delivering weapons for Vanessa, prompting Annie to decide to find her old acquaintance.

Matthias Shaw confronted Venture Company supervisor Brak over weapons being sold to the Defias Brotherhood, but Stormwind could not afford Brak’s price. Matthias instead bought information about the weapons shipment, while Brak deliberately withheld a key warning about the danger aboard the pirates’ fleet.

• Matthias Shaw accused Brak of supplying weapons to Vanessa VanCleef’s Defias Brotherhood and threatened Stormwind’s intervention.
• Brak demanded forty thousand gold coins to redirect the weapons, and Matthias admitted SI:7 could not afford the deal.
• Matthias paid Brak fifty gold coins for the ship’s schedule and landing site in Westfall.
• After Matthias left, Brak explained that he had sold information worth only fifty gold coins and kept quiet about the powerful little girl aboard John’s pirate fleet.
• Brak repeatedly slapped his cousin after the cousin revealed that their mother had also stolen money from him.

Farana’s fleet struggled through the dangerous Reef Sea toward Westfall while goblin captain John Mysriel and Orc shaman Rehgar Earthfury considered escape but could not remove their magical restraints. In the Firelands, Shannox tried to keep Ragnaros from breaking through the spatial barrier, then feared that Lord Rhyolith’s arriving army intended to help Ragnaros return.

• Farana confronted John Mysriel about the fleet’s slow progress, and he explained that reefs and Murlocs made the Reef Sea dangerous to cross.
• Rehgar Earthfury urged John Mysriel to fight back, but John offered him a dagger to test whether cutting off his hand would remove the Fire Rune; Rehgar refused.
• Ragnaros tore at the Firelands’ spatial barrier while Shannox and the Fire Elementals tried to repair it and summoned Lord Rhyolith for help.
• Shaturu reported that Lord Rhyolith was bringing tens of thousands of Unbound Emberlords and Unbound Smoldering Elementals, prompting Shannox to suspect betrayal.
• Shannox ordered Shaturu to take troops and stop Lord Rhyolith before his arrival could interrupt the barrier repairs and allow Ragnaros to return.

Shannox’s forces failed to stop Ragnaros from returning to the Firelands, and Ragnaros prepared to punish the Flamewakers. Little Annie interrupted him by pelting him with an egg and demanding payment for invading her home.

• Shannox ordered the Lava Scorchers to burn their Molten Cores and strengthen the barrier-repair ritual while Ragnaros tore at the breach.
• Shaturu confronted Lord Rhyolith, who attacked him and triggered a battle between their forces.
• Shaturu’s elite troops overwhelmed Rhyolith’s newly born elementals and surrounded Rhyolith, while Shaturu ordered his soldiers to bring the giant down.
• Ragnaros used a power given to him by the old Black Dragon to tear open the barrier and return to the Firelands.
• Shannox refused Cindermane’s offer to escape and pleaded with Ragnaros to spare the other fire elementals, but Ragnaros vowed to kill them all.
• Little Annie struck Ragnaros with an egg, then demanded payment for tearing a hole in the sky and invading her Firelands.

Annie returned to the Firelands and confronted Ragnaros, who had claimed the realm as his own. Their battle began with Annie freezing his hammer hand despite being engulfed by his flames, leaving Ragnaros shocked by her power and apparent immunity to fire.

• Shannox recognized Annie as the Firelands’ queen and welcomed her back, while Cindermane flew to greet her.
• Annie told Ragnaros that she owned the Firelands and demanded payment for the damage he caused, but he attacked her with Sulfuras.
• Annie teleported away from Ragnaros’s strike, while Lord Rhyolith fled and Shaturu ordered the guards to pursue him.
• Annie reappeared on another spire and agreed to stand and fight as Ragnaros prepared a fire spell and she cast a rune-enhanced Frostbolt.
• Ragnaros’s flames engulfed Annie, but she remained unharmed, while her Frostbolt froze his right hand around Sulfuras.

Annie used her control over the Molten Domain to cut Ragnaros off from its energy and trap him in a sealed space. She invented frostfire, defeated him, and accidentally killed him when his frozen body shattered.

• Ragnaros gathered fire-source energy to heal and tried to plan a way to defeat Annie, but she cut off his access to the Firelands’ power.
• Annie sealed the plaza in a pocket of space when Ragnaros tried to flee to Sulfuron Keep.
• Ragnaros filled the pocket space with flames and charged Annie with Sulfuras, but she evaded his attacks and extinguished his fire with frostfire.
• Annie repeatedly struck Ragnaros with Shatterfire, freezing his body and draining the flames that sustained him.
• Annie unleashed Incinerate, freezing Ragnaros solid, then lifted the spatial barrier and watched his body shatter from the temperature change.
• Annie realized Ragnaros was dead and blamed Tibbers for not warning her.

Grian Stoutmantle organized a ceremony to establish the People's Militia in Moonbrook, but Vanessa VanCleef and her sister Lana infiltrated it in disguise and assassinated Duke Laskova. The sisters escaped by magic, leaving Grian to lock down the town and report the killing to Stormwind City.

• Grian Stoutmantle planned to raise a two-thousand-strong People's Militia to defend Westfall against the growing Defias Brotherhood, and Duke Laskova agreed to declare it legitimate.
• Vanessa and Lana attended the militia ceremony disguised as noblewomen, and Laskova pressured the younger woman to reveal their names as he prepared to give his speech.
• The disguised Vanessa whispered that her name was Vanessa VanCleef, then beheaded Duke Laskova with a black dagger before the guards could react.
• Vanessa revealed her identity while Lana said her Polyjuice Potion was wearing off, and the sisters used Apparition to vanish as Grian and the guards tried to surround them.
• Grian ordered Moonbrook locked down and the assassins hunted, then decided to report Duke Laskova's death to Stormwind City.

Vanessa and Lana escaped to a hidden farm after assassinating Duke Lescovar, while Stormwind began locking down the town. Vanessa prepared to rest as Pete continued training the new Defias Brotherhood army for their coming uprising in Westfall.

• Vanessa and Lana Apparated to the hidden farm, where Vanessa became violently ill from the spell’s effects and tossed Duke Lescovar’s head into the mud.
• Lana’s Polyjuice Potion wore off, revealing her true appearance, and she told Pete that Vanessa had killed Duke Lescovar during their infiltration.
• Lana warned Pete not to let women distract him, while Vanessa reflected on Queen Annie and renewed her resolve to support the North and fulfill Edwin’s wish against Stormwind City.
• Pete reported that his three thousand recruits had gained some discipline and that he could select two hundred as an elite guard, but Vanessa worried they were not ready to fight.
• Vanessa decided to rest for a few days while awaiting weapons and armor, and Pete carried Duke Lescovar’s head to the secret camp to raise his troops’ morale.

After getting lost on her way from Stranglethorn Vale to Westfall, Annie arrived in Deadwind Pass and met Medivh outside Karazhan. She agreed to explore the abandoned tower with him in exchange for its records of other planes, postponing her plans to visit Vanessa and attack Stormwind.

• After leaving the Firelands, Annie failed to find the fleet in Stranglethorn Vale and teleported to a bleak, unfamiliar mountain region.
• Annie realized she had gotten lost and headed toward Karazhan to find someone to question, but a raven transformed into the old mage Medivh before she entered.
• Medivh identified the area as Deadwind Pass and explained that he had abandoned Karazhan because its magic, creatures, and rift to the Twisting Nether had become uncontrollable.
• Medivh said he was investigating signs of renewed Burning Legion activity around Karazhan, while Annie dismissed his concerns and declared she planned to visit Vanessa and attack Stormwind.
• Medivh persuaded Annie to explore Karazhan by offering her spellbooks and records of other planes, and she agreed to follow him inside.

Annie and Medivh explored Karazhan with Moroes, who explained the tower’s dangers and led them to the Maiden of Virtue. Annie quickly befriended the Titan Keeper and secured her help clearing the tower, leaving Medivh bewildered as they prepared to continue.

• Annie complained as she followed Medivh and Moroes through Karazhan, while Moroes described the cursed inhabitants and dangers in the tower.
• Medivh apologized to Moroes for killing him while possessed by Sargeras, and Moroes forgave his former master.
• Moroes led Medivh and Annie to the sealed hall where the Maiden of Virtue was trapped, and Annie entered ahead of them.
• Annie introduced herself to the Maiden of Virtue and promised to free her in exchange for help, then secretly used magic to win her over.
• Medivh entered and found Annie sitting on the Maiden of Virtue, who agreed to help clear the tower’s evil creatures.
• Annie ordered Medivh to bring Moroes inside so they could continue, while Medivh dispelled his prepared spells in confusion.