Chapter Summaries

Azu defeated Thanos and took the Power Stone, but Ebony Maw escaped with the Tesseract. As Thanos's flagship destroyed the refugee ship, Azu teleported away with Hulk through Heimdall's Bifrost, leaving Thor, Loki, and Heimdall in the exploding ship.

• Azu overpowered Thanos, used Knowledge Projection to stun him, and pried the Power Stone from the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Ebony Maw seized the Tesseract while Cull Obsidian helped Thanos escape with black-blue flames.
• Loki proposed that he and Thor recruit Azu as an ally, but Thor refused to cooperate with an enemy.
• Thanos's flagship bombarded the Asgardian refugee ship until it began to break apart.
• Heimdall opened the Bifrost to send Hulk to Earth, and Azu teleported beside Hulk to travel with him.
• The refugee ship exploded, engulfing Heimdall, Loki, and Thor in flames.

Thanos gathered the Space Stone and sent his followers to Earth for the Mind and Time Stones, while Azu arrived at the New York Sanctum and warned Doctor Strange that Thanos was coming. The Guardians of the Galaxy answered a distress signal and found a field of corpses, then spotted two men clinging to their cockpit.

• Thanos crushed the Tesseract, placed the Space Stone in his Infinity Gauntlet, and ordered Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Corvus Glaive, and Proxima Midnight to retrieve the Mind Stone and Time Stone from Earth.
• Thanos questioned Nebula aboard his capital ship for a clue to the Soul Stone's location.
• Azu and Banner crashed into the New York Sanctum, where Doctor Strange recognized Azu as the Conqueror and Azu warned him that Thanos was coming for the Time Stone and Mind Stone.
• Banner told Doctor Strange and Wong that Thanos was coming, but they said they had never heard of him.
• Gamora, Rocket, Star-Lord, and the rest of their crew followed a distress signal and found countless corpses floating in space.
• Two men slammed into the Guardians' cockpit, one tightly hugging the other.

Star-Lord and the Guardians rescued Thor and Loki, who told them Thanos had attacked their refugee ship and was pursuing the Infinity Stones. Thor warned that four Stones were on Earth, while Loki revealed Thanos already had the Tesseract, leaving five Stones within reach.

• Star-Lord and the Guardians brought Thor and Loki aboard their ship, and Mantis woke Thor before Loki roused himself.
• Thor asked about Thanos and told Gamora that Thanos had attacked the refugee ship.
• Gamora explained Thanos’s history and plan to kill half of all life, and revealed that he was her adoptive father.
• Thor and Loki compared family tragedies, while Star-Lord urged the group to focus on stopping Thanos.
• Thor said the Mind, Time, Power, and Reality Stones were on Earth and predicted Thanos would go there.
• Loki reminded the group that Thanos already possessed the Tesseract, giving him five Infinity Stones to pursue.

Thor and Rocket split the Guardians into teams, with Rocket, Groot, Thor, and Loki heading to Nidavellir while the others went to Earth. At the Sanctum, Azu presented himself as an ally against Thanos, then sensed that Thanos’s forces had arrived.

• Thor refused to go to Earth and insisted he needed a weapon from Nidavellir to fight Thanos and the Conqueror.
• Rocket agreed to take Thor to Nidavellir, and Loki joined their cramped ship while the others prepared to go to Earth.
• Azu met Stark at the Sanctum and claimed he would help them fight Thanos, privately planning to obtain the other Infinity Mu Jins.
• Wong explained the origins of the Infinity Mu Jins to Stark and Banner while Azu sensed an abnormal movement and announced that someone had arrived.

Azu infiltrated Thanos's ship to set up a chance to take the Infinity Stones, while Stark and the others confronted Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian on Earth. In space, Star-Lord's ship was pursued by fighters and confronted by Thanos's enormous flagship.

• Azu became an Information Lifeform, infiltrated Thanos's ship, and hid in its systems while planning to obtain the Stones on Titan.
• Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian descended into New York and demanded Doctor Strange's Stone.
• Stark and the Avengers confronted the invaders, but Banner could not bring Hulk out, so Stark engaged Cull Obsidian in his armor.
• Star-Lord's ship fled a squadron of fighters, then found Thanos's flagship, the Sanctum, looming ahead.

The Sanctum spacecraft captured Star-Lord's ship, bringing Gamora and the others before Thanos. Thanos forced Gamora to stay by threatening Star-Lord, then took her to see Nebula.

• The Sanctum spacecraft pulled Star-Lord's ship aboard, and Gamora, Star-Lord, Drax, and Mantis prepared to face Thanos.
• Drax, Star-Lord, and Gamora fought through the Chitauri until Thanos appeared and overpowered them.
• Thanos captured Gamora and told her he wanted his daughter back, while Gamora urged Star-Lord to kill her if Thanos took her.
• Thanos had the Chitauri seize Star-Lord and threatened to kill him and the others, so Gamora agreed to stay.
• Thanos sent Star-Lord and Drax away in a spaceship, then took Gamora to see her sister Nebula.

After learning that New York had been attacked and Iron Man and Spider-Man were missing, an eyepatched man activated a pager bearing a golden star. Vision sensed a warning from the Mind Stone and set out for New York, but was stabbed before he could finish speaking to Wanda; on Vormir, Thanos learned that claiming the Soul Stone required sacrificing the person he loved most.

• An eyepatched man watched news footage of the attack on New York, then activated a pager that displayed a golden five-pointed star.
• Vision felt the Mind Stone calling to him, while he and Wanda discussed their relationship and whether he should return to Stark.
• After seeing the attack on television, Vision decided to leave for New York, but someone pierced his chest with a blade before he could finish telling Wanda he loved her.
• Thanos and Gamora reached Vormir and met a cloaked figure who explained that the Soul Stone demanded the sacrifice of the person its seeker loved most.
• Gamora mocked Thanos, but the cloaked figure told her that Thanos was crying for the beloved he was about to lose, and Gamora realized the sacrifice might be her.

On Titan, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and the Guardians of the Galaxy joined forces after a misunderstanding, while Azu secretly observed them. Doctor Strange’s failed attempt to view the future led him to suspect that someone from another universe had interfered in theirs, possibly the Conqueror.

• Azu secretly watched Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange arrive on Titan after rescuing Doctor Strange from Thanos’s ship.
• Star-Lord, Drax, and Mantis confronted the Avengers, and both groups resolved their misunderstanding and agreed they were seeking Thanos.
• Doctor Strange used the Time Stone to examine 140,000,605 possible outcomes but could not see a victory or determine the battle’s outcome.
• Doctor Strange explained that the Time Stone could not normally reveal other universes and proposed that multiversal interference had disrupted it.
• Doctor Strange recalled that his teacher had warned him about the Conqueror, whom she believed came from another universe, and suggested the Conqueror might travel between universes.

Captain America brought Banner and the others to Wakanda so Shuri could remove the Mind Stone from Vision before Thanos arrived. Shuri prepared to operate, but the enemy entered the atmosphere just as the group began making plans.

• Captain America led Banner, Rhodes, Black Widow, Wanda, and the others to Wakanda, where they discovered its advanced army and a statue of the Conqueror.
• Tchalla welcomed the group and explained that Wakanda's Black Iron Stream included several kinds of autonomous humanoid weapons.
• Steve reunited with Bucky, who demonstrated his transforming Vibranium Arm.
• Shuri examined Vision and proposed recoding the Mind Stone's neural synapses simultaneously, saying she could remove it in five minutes.
• Wanda said she would destroy the Mind Stone after its removal, and Shuri and Tchalla exchanged a look.
• An alarm sounded, and Tchalla's general announced that the enemy had entered the atmosphere.

Thanos's forces descended on Wakanda, where Steve, Tchalla, and the defenders prepared for battle. On Titan, Azu watched the ambush against Thanos unfold and intervened when Star-Lord's actions ruined the chance to take the Gauntlet.

• Falcon and the Winter Soldier spotted Thanos's ships, while Wakanda's defenses destroyed one and the others landed beyond the shield.
• Steve and Tchalla ordered Wakanda's forces to evacuate civilians, prepare defenses, and march out to meet Thanos's army.
• Steve, Tchalla, and Black Widow confronted Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian as Thanos's troops poured from their ships.
• Thanos arrived on Titan and spoke with Doctor Strange while Azu concealed himself nearby and watched.
• Mantis subdued Thanos, but Star-Lord struck him after demanding to know Gamora's whereabouts, prompting Azu to prepare to act.

On Titan, Iron Man fought Thanos while Doctor Strange offered the Time Stone to save him. Azu appeared, killed Iron Man, and trapped Thanos near the battlefield by altering reality, leaving the two poised to continue their fight.

• Iron Man attacked Thanos with his armor, but Thanos battered him, shattered his helmet, and pinned him to a rock with a blade.
• Doctor Strange offered Thanos the Time Stone in exchange for Iron Man's life, and Thanos prepared to accept it.
• Azu appeared and seized the Time Stone, then blasted Iron Man to death when Thanos threatened him.
• Thanos attacked Azu and tried to escape to Earth, but Azu used the Reality Stone to change his destination and keep him near the battlefield.
• Azu told Thanos they could keep fighting, and Thanos faced him in anger.

Wakanda’s forces and heroes battled Thanos’s army while Shuri worked to stop Vision and Wanda confronted Corvus Glaive. On Titan, Azu’s fight with Thanos continued as the Soul Stone revived Titan’s dead to fight for him.

• Wakanda’s Black Iron Stream robots devastated Thanos’s forces, and Captain America, Black Panther, Black Widow, and the other heroes joined the battle when Thanos’s war chariots advanced.
• Corvus Glaive infiltrated the laboratory corridor and fought the Royal Guards, so Wanda left Shuri’s side to stop him.
• Shuri inserted a program into Vision that would forcibly stop him from moving when activated.
• On Titan, Thanos’s attacks failed to defeat Azu, and Azu used the Reality Stone to turn Thanos into cubes, but the Soul Stone’s blast freed him.
• Thanos escaped Azu’s grasp and used the Soul Stone to awaken Titan’s dead as soldiers.

Thanos used the Soul Stone to summon the dead Titans and ordered them to attack Azu, while Doctor Strange told the awakened heroes that Azu might be stronger than Thanos. Azu opened the Darkhold and used necromancy to seize control of the undead, leaving the battlefield engulfed in black mist.

• Spider-Man, Star-Lord, and the others awoke among the Titan undead, and Doctor Strange sheltered them behind a barrier.
• Doctor Strange told Spider-Man that Tony Stark had left them and warned Star-Lord and the others that Azu might be stronger than Thanos.
• Azu took out the Darkhold, shocking Doctor Strange and prompting him to explain that it was an evil spellbook.
• Thanos ordered the undead to kill Azu, and they surrounded him in a storm.
• Azu opened the Darkhold and cast necromancy to command the undead as black mist spread across the ground.

Azu killed Thanos by beheading him after distracting him with the Darkhold’s Hellish Locusts, then took the Infinity Gauntlet and equipped it with the remaining Stones. He left through a portal, saying that only the Mind Stone remained.

• Azu used the Darkhold to enslave some of the undead and summon Hellish Locusts to attack Thanos.
• Thanos used the Soul Stone to send undead against the locusts and the Space Stone to teleport them away.
• Azu teleported behind Thanos and beheaded him with the Fangs of Destruction.
• After Thanos died, Azu removed the Infinity Gauntlet while Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, and Drax tried to stop him, but his Absolute Domain blocked their attacks.
• Azu fitted the gauntlet to his hand, embedded the remaining Stones, and left through a Space Stone portal, saying that only the Mind Stone remained.

After the Conqueror escaped with the Infinity Gauntlet, Doctor Strange gathered the survivors and said they had to return to Earth. In Wakanda, Shuri secretly took the separated Mind Stone for the Conqueror, leaving Captain America to question whether Wakanda had become an enemy.

• The Conqueror used the Space Stone to escape with Thanos's gauntlet, while Drax vowed to make him look his way next time.
• Doctor Strange brought Stark's body to the group and said the Infinity Stones could revive him, but the people sacrificed to the Mu Jins could not be restored.
• Shuri successfully separated the Mind Stone from Vision, whose consciousness remained intact, and told Tchalla she would deliver the stone to the Conqueror.
• Wanda subdued Corvus Glaive and tried to stop Shuri, but Shuri used a hidden backdoor to shut Vision down and escaped with the Mind Stone.
• Wanda told Captain America that Shuri had taken the Mind Stone and might have tampered with Vision, and Captain America asked Black Panther whether Wakanda was an enemy.

Captain America and Black Panther fought over Shuri taking the Mind Stone, as Wakanda defended its allegiance to the Conqueror and attacked the Avengers. Just as Steve was about to surrender the stone to save his friends, Thor and his companions arrived through the Bifrost.

• Black Panther told Captain America that Wakanda trusted the Conqueror with the Mind Stone, while Steve warned that the Conqueror was dangerous.
• Steve ordered his team to find Shuri and retrieve the Mind Stone, while Tchalla commanded Wakandan forces to defend her and attack the Avengers.
• Wakandan fighters drove Falcon and War Machine into retreat, while Black Iron Stream machines overwhelmed Banner, Black Widow, and Bucky near the laboratory.
• Tchalla knocked Steve down and urged him to surrender the Mind Stone, but Steve refused and rushed to help his team.
• As Steve was about to give up the Mind Stone, Thor arrived through the Bifrost with Loki, Rocket, and Groot and called for Thanos.

Thor returned to Earth with Stormbreaker and devastated Thanos's army before learning that Wakanda had sided with the Conqueror and kept the Mind Stone. As Thor fought Black Panther to reach Princess Shuri, someone wearing the Infinity Gauntlet stopped Stormbreaker with one hand.

• Thor used Stormbreaker to destroy Thanos's troops and the Black Iron Stream's robots, then reunited with Dr. Banner and the others.
• Black Widow explained that Wakanda had pledged allegiance to the Conqueror and intended to give him the Mind Stone.
• Falcon reported that Princess Shuri was heading for the forest, and Thor set off to pursue her.
• Black Panther confronted Thor, who fought him while Captain America and the others moved toward Shuri.
• As Thor brought Stormbreaker down on Black Panther, an arm wearing the Infinity Gauntlet caught its handle and stopped the axe.

Azu arrived in Wakanda wearing the Infinity Gauntlet and wielding Fangs of Destruction, then fought Thor while seeking the Mind Stone. After learning Shuri had it and was hiding in the forest, Azu left Thor incapacitated and flew to find her as she dodged gunfire.

• Azu revealed that he had killed Thanos and clashed with Thor, sending him flying while Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian considered retreating.
• Azu and Thor fought again, and Fangs of Destruction cracked Stormbreaker with its Divine Edge trait.
• Azu asked Tchalla about Vision and learned Shuri had removed the Mind Stone and taken it into the forest.
• Thor attacked to stop Azu, but Azu used the Reality Stone to immobilize him before flying toward the forest.
• Shuri dodged a burst of bullets while moving through the forest in her armor.

Shuri tried to escape with the Mind Stone, but the Avengers cornered her and Wanda destroyed it. Azu arrived in time to rescue Shuri and told her he would handle the rest.

• War Machine pursued Shuri through the mountains, but she disabled his armor and escaped after tearing off his faceplate.
• Vision, Wanda, Falcon, and Steve surrounded Shuri and fought to stop her from escaping with the Mind Stone.
• Shuri used a kinetic blast to scatter Steve and Falcon, but Vision caught her before she could flee over a cliff.
• Wanda restrained Shuri while Vision removed the Mind Stone from her suit and passed it to Wanda, who shattered it with Chaos Magic.
• Azu arrived as the Mind Stone exploded, caught Shuri before Vision could reach her, and reassured her that he would handle the rest.

Azu used the Time Stone to restore the Mind Stone and endured the power of the Infinity Mu Jins. After teleporting to the battlefield, he faced the Avengers and Wakandan forces, just as new challengers arrived.

• Azu restored the Mind Stone with the Time Stone and placed it in the Infinity Gauntlet, unleashing a powerful surge that devastated the forest.
• Azu resisted the Infinity Mu Jins' power with Godly Strength and Absolute Domain, while Falcon, Steve, Wanda, Vision, and Shuri struggled under his aura.
• Azu teleported himself and the others to the battlefield, where Tchalla checked on Shuri and stood with Azu.
• Thor, Loki, Rocket, and Groot joined Steve and the Avengers, and Steve told Thor that Azu had restored the Mind Stone.
• Azu said the Avengers could not take the Infinity Mu Jins from him, but an unidentified speaker challenged him by asking what would happen if they joined the fight.