Chapter Summaries

James watched as Charles and Erik coordinated the Sirius Legion against the Kree army, whose fleet had been destroyed. The battle left the Kree devastated, while Ronan demanded that Yon-Rogg reveal the promised woman and her trump card.

• James sent Emma to join the battle and watched from a throne atop a giant metal wolf.
• Charles linked the Sirius Legion’s minds, giving Steve a shared view of the battlefield and allowing the troops to coordinate through psychic command.
• Steve led the legion’s charge as Yon-Rogg rallied the Kree to fight for their empire and the Supreme.
• Emma, Steve, Sharon, Laura, Colossus, Storm, and the other legionnaires tore through the Kree as Charles amplified Erik’s control over the metal battlefield.
• Ronan fought with the Universal Weapon and asked Yon-Rogg where the woman and the promised trump card were.

Vers-Vell's suppressed powers awakened, and she attacked James Howlett's forces before Jean Grey confronted her with the Phoenix Force. Hank McCoy recognized Vers as Carol Danvers, but James let Jean continue fighting her as the battle between the Kree and the Sirius forces raged on.

• Peter Rasputin and Steve Rogers attacked Ronan, while Vers-Vell watched James Howlett and remembered her past with Mar-Vell and the Kree.
• Vers's control device overloaded, and she blasted Storm and defeated Alex Summers and Remy LeBeau as she charged toward James.
• Steve ordered Kurt and others to evacuate the wounded Alex, then led Bucky and Laura to intercept Vers before Jean Grey struck her into a crater.
• Jean fought Vers with her Phoenix powers, trapping her in a black obelisk and then compressing a mountain around her.
• Hank recognized Vers as Carol Danvers, but Professor Charles said he could not restore her memories without her cooperation.
• James told Charles to let Jean continue, saying Carol's strength made her a threat in a war between civilizations.

Carol Danvers entered her Binary form and fought Jean Grey, whose Phoenix Force ultimately swallowed her. After Peter Rasputin killed Ronan, James Howlett rallied the Sirius Legion and ordered it to set course for the Kree Empire’s homeworld.

• Carol Danvers broke free of Jean Grey’s compressed mountain and unleashed her Binary form, radiating energy across the electromagnetic spectrum.
• Jean Grey fully embraced the Phoenix Force and attacked Carol, who struggled through its flames and relived memories as the Phoenix swallowed her.
• Peter Rasputin continued fighting Ronan while the Sirius Legion watched, and he finally beheaded the battered Kree commander with his Adamantium Battle Axe.
• Peter carried Ronan’s head to James Howlett’s throne and knelt, and James told him to build a home at Wolf Tower.
• James crushed Ronan’s head after the legion answered his question by pounding their chests, then ordered the Sirius Legion to sail for the Kree Empire’s homeworld.

Peter Mitchell and Tom Kazansky helped Earth's forces repel the Kree fleet after Yon-Rogg ordered it to withdraw, and the Dark Aster returned to Hala with the Tesseract and its few survivors. Yon-Rogg reported to the Supreme Intelligence, where Charles Xavier revealed himself and confirmed that he had been impersonating the Kree commander.

• Peter Mitchell returned from Earth and joined Tom Kazansky in destroying more Kree fighters while Earth's forces remained outmatched overall.
• Min-Erva received Yon-Rogg's order to end hostilities and return to Hala after the Kree had secured the Tesseract, prompting the remaining Kree ships to retreat.
• Yon-Rogg told Min-Erva that Accuser Ronan and Marvel Vers were dead and that fewer than two thousand of thirty-six thousand Kree warriors had survived.
• The Dark Aster reached Hala, and Min-Erva and the surviving Kree soldiers behaved as though they shared a single mind.
• Yon-Rogg went to the Supreme Intelligence with Ronan's hammer and the Tesseract, where Charles Xavier revealed that he had been impersonating Yon-Rogg.

Charles Xavier confronted the Supreme Intelligence on Hala, but the Tesseract’s energy erupted in the Supreme Hall as James Howlett and the Howlett Family faced the Kree Empire’s forces. The battle devastated the family, and James stood alone as a sigh came through the Kree communications channel.

• Charles Xavier controlled Yon-Rogg and questioned the Supreme Intelligence, which revealed that the Tesseract’s delivery to Hala had achieved its objective.
• An icy-blue energy blast erupted in the Supreme Hall, and Kree forces surrounded the Dark Aster at Hala’s spaceport.
• James Howlett led the Howlett Family out of the Dark Aster, and the Supreme Intelligence ordered the Kree to destroy the invaders.
• The Howlett Family fought the Kree Legion as Storm, Scott, Warren, Erik, and Azazel fell, while James insisted they had to destroy the Kree leaders.
• James stood alone amid the ruins as the Kree fleet surrounded him, then lowered his claws and closed his eyes after a sigh came through the Kree communications channel.

James and the Sirius Legion devastated Hala with Magneto’s asteroid bombardment and Storm’s solar storm, then invaded the capital and attacked the Supreme Intelligence’s stronghold. James connected his mind to the Supreme Intelligence, which summoned the image of Old Howlett, and listened as the artificial intelligence tried to persuade him.

• Charles revealed that his mind control had planted independent thoughts in the Skrulls impersonating James and the others, allowing them to draw Kree forces together as bait.
• Erik hurled asteroids at Hala while Ororo unleashed a solar storm that shattered the planet’s shields, devastated its environment, and killed many Kree; Kurt carried away the exhausted Storm.
• James ordered the Sirius Legion to attack Hala’s key positions, gave Laura his Hellfire power, and led Emma and Jean toward the Supreme Hall.
• James, Emma, and Jean broke through the Kree forces guarding the Supreme Intelligence, while Emma and Jean’s psychic and telekinetic attack erased nearly ten thousand Imperial Guards.
• James accepted the Supreme Intelligence’s mental connection and saw the image of Old Howlett, then told the artificial intelligence that the outcome would not change whoever appeared.

James destroyed the Supreme Intelligence rather than let its living mind rule humanity, then ended the war on Hala by killing Kl'rt. The Kree capital lay in ruins, and the Sirius Legion's victory announced its arrival to the wider universe.

• The Supreme Intelligence pleaded for its life and offered to help humanity advance, but James rejected its survival and burned its central core with Hellfire.
• James discovered the Supreme Intelligence's massive organic core beneath the hall and severed their connection before destroying it.
• Laura piloted a Hellfire-transformed Kree fighter through a returning cruiser while Erik's Electromagnetic Meteor left Hala's spaceport and the Kree forces in ruins.
• James confronted the surviving Kl'rt, who said the Skrulls' ancient hatred of the Kree had been avenged and offered his people's abilities to James.
• James used the Eye of Judgment to burn Kl'rt to death, then returned to the Sirius warship as news of Hala's fall spread across the universe.

Odin sent Loki to Midgard to invite James Howlett to Asgard, recognizing him as a being with divine power. On Earth, Victor von Doom resented his stalled progress as protests against the Howlett Group continued, while James and his family discussed the aftermath of the Kree War and dismissed the demonstrations as harmless.

• Odin told Heimdall that James Howlett had become a true god after encountering the Tesseract and ordered Loki to invite him to Asgard.
• Loki concealed his resentment over Odin’s plans for Thor’s coronation and agreed to carry the invitation to Midgard.
• Victor von Doom complained about protesters outside the Empire State Building and brooded over his repeated rejection for serum enhancement.
• James’s family discussed the memorials for fallen heroes, the postwar protests, and Steve and Sharon’s plans to travel and train.
• Erik offered to have Alex address the protesters, but James said they could speak freely and be ignored.

Jean Grey found a photograph of James with Rose O'Hara and asked who she was, drawing the Phoenix closer to him as his powers pushed back her energy. In Asgard, Loki prepared to invite James to meet Odin, but Thor insisted on going with him to see the warrior for himself.

• After the Howlett family dinner, Jean Grey entered James's study and used telekinesis to retrieve an old photograph from an album.
• Jean asked James about Rose O'Hara, and he explained that she had been his childhood companion who gave her life to him.
• The Phoenix drew close to James, whose crimson life energy and Hellfire rose as he told her that he was the one who needed to hold out.
• Loki admitted to Thor that Odin had sent him to invite James, a human touched by the Tesseract and described as a warrior with divine power.
• Thor pressured Loki into taking him to Midgard, and Mjolnir flew into Thor Odinson's hand as he prepared to meet James.

James Howlett inspected the Vibranium mining and research facilities at Wolf Nest as the Howlett Family’s older generation took leave and its organizations were reorganized. A Bifrost arrival brought Thor and Loki to Greenland in search of the Tesseract, where James sensed them on the ice.

• James Howlett told the Science Division to study the Kree starship technology and captured Skrull King Ship before beginning work on them.
• Hank suggested recruiting new scientists for Wolf Nest, while Dr. Zola reported that Bolivar Trask was vacationing in Sweden.
• Ophelia told James that an energy detector had detected an unfamiliar burst of high-energy particles in northeastern Greenland.
• Thor and Loki arrived by Bifrost, and Loki used a compass-like device to guide them west toward the Tesseract.
• Thor and Loki crossed the ice while trading remarks, and James Howlett sensed them nearby.

James Howlett faced Thor and Loki in the Arctic after they demanded the Tesseract, and he fought Thor in a clash of claws, lightning, and crimson energy. The battle left Thor badly battered and James knocked back, with the fight still unresolved.

• Loki explained that true gods possessed divine power, and Thor questioned whether Loki had called a mortal a true god.
• James confirmed he held the Tesseract, refused to surrender it, and sent Colin Pitt and the Winter Wolf warriors away before facing Thor alone.
• Thor attacked James with Mjolnir, but James dodged the hammer and wounded Thor with his Bone Blades.
• Thor summoned lightning and transformed into his armored God of Thunder form, while Loki watched from a conjured ice lounge.
• James unleashed a crimson storm and traded blows with Thor, repeatedly healing as Thor’s hammer shattered his bones and James’s claws damaged Thor’s armor.
• Thor struck James in the chest with Mjolnir and knocked him more than ten meters back.

James defeated Thor in Greenland, then tried to lift Mjolnir by force and was transported with it when Odin summoned the Bifrost. At the Sanctum Sanctorum, the Ancient One identified the immense power Jean Grey sensed as Odin’s.

• James bound Thor with Crimson Chains, battered him, and withstood Thor’s lightning until Thor rose to continue the fight.
• James pierced Thor’s hammer hand and palm, knocked Mjolnir away, and pummeled Thor unconscious without the hammer.
• James saw through Loki’s illusions, captured him, and knocked him aside before attempting to lift Mjolnir.
• James engulfed Mjolnir in hellfire and nearly lifted it, but Odin’s magic made the hammer too heavy to move.
• Odin summoned the Bifrost, which carried Thor, Loki, James, and Mjolnir away from the Arctic.
• At the Sanctum Sanctorum, the Ancient One told Jean Grey that the powerful being she sensed was All-Father Odin Bor Son.

James Howlett refused Odin’s demand to return the Tesseract, and the two fought across the Golden Palace. James’s final punch shattered Odin’s armor, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Odin confronted James and demanded that he return the Tesseract, while Loki and Thor knelt after their fight with James.
• James questioned Odin about his war with the Frost Giants, then refused to surrender the Tesseract and warned that he knew the secret of the Infinity Stones.
• Odin attacked James with Gungnir, but James healed and fought back with bone claws and Hellfire.
• Odin and James battled fiercely, damaging the Golden Palace as Loki and Thor watched.
• Odin pinned James to the ceiling and declared he would imprison him until Ragnarok, but James struck Odin in the chest and shattered his armor.

James Howlett fought Odin in Valaskjalf, pushing Hellfire and his life energy closer to fusion, until Odin subdued him with the Odinforce. James then fell into a brazier containing a nameless fire that ravaged his body and soul, and Odin summoned the Bifrost to intervene as James's fate remained uncertain.

• James repeatedly clashed with Odin, and their blows wrecked much of Valaskjalf as James honed his fusion of Hellfire and life energy.
• James grew four flaming arms, forged a great bone sword, and challenged Odin, who said he could no longer fight all-out and invoked the Odinforce.
• Odin's power drove James into the palace vault, where the Destroyer blasted him into a brazier containing an unnamed fire.
• The nameless fire tormented James's soul and repeatedly incinerated his body as he regenerated and screamed across Asgard.
• Odin called Heimdall to activate the Bifrost, then summoned its light toward James and declared that he would be honored in Valhalla if his soul survived.

After Odin sent James away with the Bifrost, Loki touched the Casket of Ancient Winters and began to question his place in Asgard. The Howletts and their allies discussed reaching Asgard to retrieve James, while Jean vowed to kill Odin if necessary; the chapter then shifted to Sakaar, where Kardletz searched through wreckage for salvage.

• Odin, gravely wounded after fighting James, left the ruined Golden Palace with Frigga while Thor and Loki helped with the aftermath.
• Loki found the Casket of Ancient Winters beneath palace rubble, touched it, and recoiled as its cold power awakened.
• At Wolf Nest, Ancient One explained the Bifrost and Yggdrasil to Erik Lehnsherr, Emma, Charles, Jean Grey, and Laura Howlett.
• Emma asked how they could reach Asgard and retrieve James, and Jean rose with Phoenix power blazing as she vowed to kill Odin if James could not defeat him.
• On Sakaar, Kardletz scanned Kree wreckage in the Junk Mountains and continued searching for valuable salvage.

James Howlett awoke on Sakaar with his energy sealed by a mysterious Asgardian flame and demanded clothes from the scavenger Kardletz, then asked how to escape. Meanwhile, the Howlett Family departed Greenland to search for James, as the Ancient One sensed that a chaotic and dangerous era had begun.

• Kardletz detected a life sign in a junk pile and found the apparently dead James Howlett, whose heartbeat suddenly resumed.
• James woke, discovered his energy was sealed and the nameless flame was consuming his life force, then cut the electrical controller out of his neck and healed instantly.
• Kardletz surrendered his clothes and offered to guide James after James resisted the shock device and demanded to know how to leave Sakaar.
• The Ancient One, the Howlett Family, and the sorcerers gathered in Greenland to launch an expedition, while Erik Lehnsherr joined them and they noted that Steve and Peggy were still away.
• The sorcerers and Red Devil opened a portal with the Tesseract, and the Howlett Family boarded two starships and departed for Asgard.
• The Ancient One stayed behind and sensed through the Eye of Agamotto that an immense, chaotic, and dangerous era had arrived.

The Howlett Family and the Sirius Legion arrived in Asgard seeking James Howlett, only to learn that Odin had sent him away and no one knew where he had gone. Laura declared the invasion Ragnarok, and battle erupted on the Bifrost as the mortal forces gained the upper hand.

• Heimdall spotted two starships emerging from Asgard's seas, raised a protective barrier, and sounded Gjallarhorn.
• Emma, Erik, and the Howlett Family landed on the Bifrost and demanded that Thor explain what had happened to James.
• Loki and Heimdall revealed that Odin had tried to send James into Ginnungagap, but he had vanished during the Bifrost's transmission.
• Laura declared that the day marked Ragnarok and called on the Sirius Legion to attack Asgard.
• Storm clashed with Thor, Bucky struck the God of Thunder, Magneto turned Asgard's ships against its army, and the battle spread across the Bifrost.

Frigga refused to leave Odin’s bedside as human forces invaded Asgard, while Bucky, Laura, and their allies battled Thor and the Asgardian defenders on the Bifrost. Illyana joined Peter against Heimdall and revealed her new name, Magik.

• Eir warned Frigga that the invaders were nearing Valaskjalf, but Frigga stayed beside Odin and told the handmaidens that only the elderly and newborns needed shelter.
• Bucky and Laura repeatedly attacked Thor, who shattered Bucky’s body and crushed Laura’s head with Mjolnir, but both healed and resumed fighting him.
• Thor fought to reach the humans below as Bucky and Laura trapped him with chains, claws, and renewed attacks.
• Nightcrawler Kurt, Azazel, and Red Devil ambushed the Warriors Three, while Heimdall fought Colossus and the other human warriors on the Bifrost.
• Illyana Rasputin intervened to save Peter from Heimdall, joined her brother in battle, and used her Soul Blade against the Asgardian general.
• Illyana told Peter to call her Magik from then on.

The Sirius Legion overwhelmed the Asgardians on the Bifrost, forcing Thor and the surviving troops behind Valaskjalf’s barrier as Jean Grey’s Phoenix began battering it. Meanwhile, James Howlett arrived in Sakaar and learned about its arena before the Grandmaster announced the new Champion season.

• Emma Howlett and the Sirius Legion pressed their attack, killing thousands of Asgardians while Loki and Heimdall withdrew the surviving forces into Valaskjalf.
• Loki brought Thor back behind the barrier after Thor refused to retreat, and Thor mourned Volstagg and Hogun, who had fallen in battle.
• Emma directed the Legion’s weapons against Valaskjalf’s shield, while Heimdall remembered fighting beside Odin’s old generation of warriors.
• Jean Grey unleashed the Phoenix against the barrier, making Odin stir in his sleep as Frigga watched him with tears in her eyes.
• James Howlett questioned the scavenger Kardletz about Sakaar’s arena and the Grandmaster as they reached Contest City.
• The Grandmaster appeared on a citywide screen, danced, and announced that the annual Champion season was beginning.

James Howlett arrived on Sakaar and signed up to fight in the Contest of Champions after killing the Scavenger who tried to sell him. In Asgard, Emma demanded that Odin return James, but Odin refused and declared war, leaving the two sides locked in battle.

• Kardletz took James Howlett toward the Contest of Champions Arena while describing Sakaar's lawless customs and the arena's champions.
• Kardletz tried to sell James to the arena guards, but James killed him and insisted on registering as a free contestant.
• James learned that arena fighters could only die or become champion, and asked when his first fight would begin and for clean clothes.
• Odin destroyed Jean Grey's Phoenix assault on Asgard's defenses and confronted Emma's forces on the Bifrost.
• Emma demanded that Odin return James, but Odin said James was lost in Ginnungagap and offered war instead.
• Emma attacked Odin, and Jean, Laura, Bucky, and the others charged as the Asgardians advanced into battle.