Chapter Summaries

Su Ming exposed the Capitol officials’ crimes and rejected General Ross’s challenge to produce evidence. He made the officials magically unable to lie or stay silent, leaving agents to question them in front of the world.

• Mediterranean shot himself after his crimes were exposed, and the women he had bullied cried with relief as the public watched.
• Captain America and Black Widow reacted to the exposed corruption, while Capitol staff and agents turned against the officials.
• General Ross accused Su Ming of treason and demanded conclusive evidence, prompting other officials to invoke the Constitution and the law.
• Su Ming called on the agents to question the officials and made Ross and his group unable to lie or remain silent.

Su Ming forced the corrupt officials to confess and ordered Quill to destroy the U.S. Capitol, then erased the smoke, debris, and flames to avoid polluting the air. The chapter ended with the Capitol replaced by a perfectly clean, silent crater and Quill marveling at the cleanup.

• Su Ming's truth-forcing power made officials blurt out their hidden thoughts, and agents rushed to arrest them as the crowd celebrated.
• Su Ming looked upon the Capitol as a monument to corruption and ordered Quill to blow it up.
• Quill commanded the Guardians of the Galaxy fleet to fire on the Capitol, reducing it to a burning ruin as the public and Avengers watched.
• Su Ming objected that the destruction had raised PM2.5 levels and polluted the environment.
• Su Ming erased the smoke, rubble, and flames, leaving a smooth hemispherical crater, and Quill admitted the result was cleaner than his fireworks.

After erasing the Capitol Building, Su Ming left Earth as its people hailed him as the Earth Guardian, while the Avengers struggled with the scale of his power. Aboard the Milano, he set course for Asgard to help Thor.

• Su Ming erased the Capitol Building, leaving a vast crater, then departed aboard the Milano with the Galactic Fleet.
• The president, military, and Avengers reacted with terror and helplessness to the destruction, while Banner wondered whether it was time to leave.
• People around the world knelt and hailed Su Ming as the Earth Guardian, and his name became a legend and taboo on Earth.
• Su Ming told the crew to go to Asgard because Thor likely needed their help.
• Star-Lord recalled Thor's drinking, and Drax and Gamora discussed how the wine had affected him.

After Su Ming left Earth, Wanda and Pietro feared he had abandoned them, but he opened a portal and took them aboard a starship. Peter Parker stayed behind when Gwen stopped him from following, while Alisha enjoyed a peaceful day at Su Ming’s base as the Sokovia Accords fueled turmoil outside.

• Su Ming watched Rocket modify weapons and said Earth's troubles should be left to Earthlings, prompting Wanda and Pietro to fear he had abandoned them.
• Su Ming opened a portal to a starship, and Wanda and Pietro eagerly rushed through it.
• Peter Parker watched Wanda and Pietro leave on his phone, but Gwen ordered him to stay home and threatened him with cabbage soup and late-night tutoring.
• Alisha relaxed at Su Ming’s base, watching a show and ignoring the conflict over the Sokovia Accords.
• The Avengers and governments continued clashing as the Accords intensified the turmoil across the world.

Stephen Strange overcame his failure to open a portal, became a rapidly advancing sorcerer, and sensed that danger was approaching Earth. Meanwhile, Thor traveled to Muspelheim to stop Ragnarok but was captured and left waiting in a cage.

• Strange stopped trying to control space and opened a stable portal from the Himalayas to Kamar-Taj.
• Strange threw himself into Kamar-Taj's library and quickly mastered advanced spells as Kaecilius attacked Earth's Sanctuaries for Dormammu.
• Strange studied the Dark Dimension and the Sanctuaries while touching the Eye of Agamotto, which held the power to turn back time.
• After Wanda's Mind Blast revealed the prophecy of Ragnarok, Thor left his teammates fighting Ultron and set off for Muspelheim to confront Surtur.
• Thor defeated a group of fire servants, entered Muspelheim, and was captured; after two months alone in a cage, he entertained himself by talking to a skeleton.

The Guardians' forgotten theft of Sovereign's energy core caught up with them aboard the Milano, delaying their journey to Asgard. With the Golden Fleet surrounding them, Su Ming appraised its fighters and prepared to deal with the unfinished business.

• Pietro accidentally knocked the energy core from Rocket's claws, and Wanda lifted it with her Chaos Magic.
• Rocket admitted he had stolen the core from Sovereign, while Quill and Gamora realized they had also forgotten Nebula in a cryogenic pod.
• Sovereign's Golden Fleet locked onto the Milano, and Ayesha demanded that Peter Quill and Rocket return the energy core.
• Su Ming said they would deal with the fleet before continuing to Asgard, appraised the golden fighters, and asked Drax if they were all drones.

Su Ming protected the Guardians of the Galaxy from Sovereign’s Golden Fleet by making its attacks intangible, but a Celestial arrived and annihilated thousands of drones. Su Ming recognized the being’s immense power and told Quill that his father had arrived, leaving Quill stunned.

• Sovereign’s Golden Fleet ambushed Su Ming, Wanda, Quicksilver, and the Guardians of the Galaxy on their way to Asgard.
• Su Ming made the Golden Fleet’s energy beams harmless and intangible as they passed through the ships and their crews.
• Su Ming teleported to the flagship and began to exchange the golden drones for U.S. dollars.
• A white egg-shaped spacecraft arrived and its energy torrent erased thousands of Sovereign drones, interrupting Su Ming’s exchange.
• Su Ming sensed a Celestial aboard the spacecraft, paused to assess the threat, and told Quill that his father had arrived.
• Quill froze and asked Su Ming whether he meant that his own father was there.

Su Ming and the Guardians followed the mysterious white ship toward Bohart after it destroyed Sovereign’s fighters. Quill learned the ship belonged to his biological father, and Su Ming cleared their dangerous route through the Quantum Asteroid Belt after Quill and Rocket’s piloting contest sent the Milano lurching wildly.

• Ayesha ordered the Sovereign fighters to attack the Milano, but their weapons passed through it before the white ship destroyed the remote-controlled fleet.
• The white ship led Su Ming and the Guardians toward Bohart, and Quill mistakenly assumed it belonged to Su Ming’s father until Su Ming corrected him.
• Su Ming ordered the group to follow the white ship through the Quantum Asteroid Belt, where Quill and Rocket argued and fought over piloting the Milano.
• Su Ming dispersed the asteroids, cosmic dust, and energy currents with a wave, clearing the route to Bohart.
• Wanda laughed, and Pietro teased Quill and Rocket about the Milano’s scratches compared with the ships behind them.

The Milano crash-landed on a remote, forested planet after Quill and Rocket fought over the controls, while Su Ming sensed powerful life beneath the ground. Mantis and a sleazy old man emerged from the white egg-shaped ship, and the man said he had finally found Quill.

• Quill and Rocket’s struggle over piloting left the Milano badly damaged as it landed in the forest.
• Gamora angrily blamed Quill and Rocket for the wreck, and the Guardians bickered about the crash and the tiny figure who had helped save them.
• Su Ming stopped the arguing and sensed powerful life and a familiar presence beneath the planet’s surface.
• Mantis and a sleazy old man stepped out of the white egg-shaped ship, and the old man looked at Quill and said he had finally found him.

Su Ming split the team between Ego's planet and the ship, then secretly searched the planet and discovered a vast mineral vein. As Yondu confronted Rocket and Wanda, Su Ming began extracting and refining the vein to recover some of the money Ego had cost him.

• Su Ming sent Pietro, Gamora, and Destroyer with Star-Lord to meet Ego, while Rocket, Wanda, and Groot stayed behind to repair the ship and watch Nebula.
• Mantis explained that she could soothe emotions and put people to sleep, then instantly knocked Drax unconscious.
• Stakar confronted Yondu over trading children, and Ayesha hired Yondu and his Ravagers to eliminate the Galaxy Guard Corps.
• Rocket and Wanda trapped and incapacitated many Ravagers who approached the ship, but Yondu arrived with another group and faced a divided crew.
• Yondu resisted his subordinates' calls to take the bounty, while Wanda held back her Chaos Magic after Rocket warned her they were outnumbered.
• Su Ming found a vast, undeveloped mineral vein, pulled it from the ground with magic, and began working on it with Heat Vision.

Su Ming secretly extracted and sold Berhert’s gold, while Nebula escaped and helped Scarface seize control of the Ravagers. Wanda, Rocket, Yondu, and Groot were left captive as Scarface prepared to hand Wanda and Rocket to the Kree.

• Su Ming used his power over rules to separate Berhert’s gold, froze it into a sphere, and exchanged it for $270 trillion.
• Nebula escaped and shot Yondu’s mechanical fin, while Rocket was electrocuted unconscious.
• Wanda attacked the Ravagers with Chaos Magic, but Scarface threatened Rocket and captured her in an electrified net.
• Scarface took command, threw Yondu’s loyal Ravagers into space, and confined Yondu, Rocket, and Wanda.
• Nebula obtained a spaceship to return to Ego’s Planet, while the Ravagers tormented Groot and made him their mascot.

Ego revealed his Celestial nature and awakened Quill’s powers while disguising his ambitions as fatherly affection. Quill learned that Ego had caused his mother’s brain tumor and shot him, while Mantis’s attempt to reveal Ego’s crimes was interrupted.

• Ego explained that he had evolved into Berhert and told Quill that his Celestial power came from the planet.
• Ego guided Quill to awaken his powers, and the two shared a moment throwing an energy ball.
• Drax and Mantis talked about her upbringing and his daughter, and Mantis felt Drax’s grief when she touched him.
• Pietro returned after searching the planet and asked why he had found no other living creatures; Mantis said Ego was the planet and she helped him sleep.
• Quill remembered Ego admitting he had put a tumor in his mother’s head, then emptied his gun into Ego.
• Ego dismissed Quill’s attack before turning sharply toward a nearby spot.

Peter learned that Ego had killed his mother and attacked him, while Su Ming stole a Starcore Fragment from deep inside Ego. The fragment joined the three already around Su Ming’s heart, sending a ripple across the universe that awakened Dormammu and other powerful beings; meanwhile, Gamora and Nebula reconciled after finding mountains of skeletal remains in a cave.

• Peter accused Ego of killing his mother and fired on him, while Ego regenerated and realized that his mineral vein had been stolen.
• Su Ming broke through a mass of crystal vessels underground and took the Starcore Fragment hidden inside.
• The fragment merged with the three others around Su Ming’s heart, and their energy ripple awakened Dormammu and several other powerful presences.
• Gamora and Nebula fought in a cave, but Gamora rescued Nebula from her crashed ship and the sisters finally resolved their feud.
• Gamora and Nebula discovered thousands of skeletal remains piled deep in the cave and decided they needed to leave Ego’s planet.

Wanda returned to Yondu's ship, slaughtered the rebellious Ravagers, and forced Scarface into space before heading back to Ego's planet. There, she and Pietro rescued the Guardians from Ego's attacks while Rocket built a bomb to fight him.

• Groot repeatedly brought Yondu the wrong items, but Green eventually delivered the spare mechanical fin and said the mutineers had killed his friends.
• Wanda broke out of her cage, defeated the Ravagers in the hold, and killed Scarface before telling Yondu and Rocket to return.
• Ego raged over the loss of the Starcore Fragment and attacked Quill and the others with energy tentacles and planetary blasts.
• Wanda returned and shielded Drax and the Gamora sisters while Pietro pulled Mantis and Quill out of danger.
• Rocket assembled a golden bomb from Sovereign Steel-Titanium Batteries and urged Quill to help while Wanda struggled against Ego.

Ego impaled Quill and crushed the Walkman from his mother while draining the planet, but Yondu struck Ego with his ship and freed Quill. The Guardians regrouped aboard the ship, only for Ego's energy tentacles to surround them again.

• Quill taunted Ego, who impaled him with an energy tentacle and threatened to use him as a battery.
• Ego took Quill's Walkman, played its song, and crushed it as Quill's friends struggled under the pressure of his power.
• Yondu rammed Ego with his ship, freeing Quill and giving the group a chance to escape aboard.
• Wanda and Pietro joined the others on the ship, where Nebula asked for a ride home and the Guardians traded barbs.
• Ego's energy tentacles burst from the ground and surrounded the ship again.

Quill and Yondu led the Guardians through Ego’s underground tunnels to destroy the Celestial’s energy core, while a Sovereign drone fleet descended on Berhert. The chapter ended as the team reached Ego’s core, with Green alone on the Ravagers’ flagship watching the attack begin.

• Mantis revealed that Ego’s weakness was an energy core beneath the planet, while Yondu and Quill repaired the ship’s thrusters and escaped Ego’s grasp.
• Quill piloted the ship into the underground tunnels as Rocket blasted a path with the laser weapons, and Quill explained that Su Ming had sent the Guardian Corps away to keep them safe.
• Green spotted tens of thousands of Sovereign drones approaching Berhert and tried to contact Yondu, but the team’s lasers drowned out his call.
• Quill told Yondu that Ego wanted to use their genetic link to the Light of Life, and admitted that he had only managed to create a ball with his power.
• The team reached Ego’s massive energy core, and Rocket assured Gamora that he could destroy it.

Strange witnessed Ancient One accept her death and received her final guidance as Dormammu approached. On Ego’s planet, the Guardians’ attempt to breach the core faltered under the Golden Fleet’s attack, while Su Ming crushed the fleet into a mass of fighters and exchanged it for $312.5 trillion.

• Ancient One told Strange that he and Mordo would need to combine their strengths to defeat Dormammu, then vanished after telling him to trust his heart or Su Ming.
• Rocket began drilling into Ego’s core with the fighters’ lasers while Quill and the others prepared to kill Ego.
• The Golden Fleet attacked, disrupting the drilling plan and forcing Rocket and Quill to use a bomb capable of triggering a chain reaction through Ego’s nervous system.
• Quill and Rocket activated their space suits and leaped toward the planetary core as explosions and energy beams filled the underground passage.
• Su Ming used his power to seize and compress the Golden Fleet’s fighters into a huge mass, appraised them at $312.5 trillion, and exchanged them.

Ayesha and Ego were stunned when Su Ming made the Golden Fleet vanish, while the Guardians escaped its underground attack and Mantis put Ego to sleep. The group remained near the planetary core as Mantis struggled to hold her power over him.

• Ayesha watched the Golden Fleet disappear and learned that more than twelve thousand aircraft had been lost.
• Ego was shocked by Su Ming's power but chose to attack Quill near the planetary core first.
• Quill, Rocket, Gamora, Drax, Wanda, Pietro, and Mantis watched the underground Golden Fleet get pulled away, and Wanda realized Su Ming had acted.
• Ego formed a face from the energy veins and sent a vortex toward the group, but Mantis used her ability to make him fall asleep.
• Mantis warned the group that she did not know how long she could keep Ego asleep.

Mantis briefly put Ego to sleep, but a falling rock knocked her unconscious and Ego awakened as the Guardians tried to destroy his hub. The team faced Ego’s assault in a desperate battle, and Quill suddenly erupted.

• Mantis hypnotized Ego into a deep sleep, but a rock struck her and broke the trance, allowing Ego to wake.
• Quill and Rocket tried to teach Groot how to set the bomb, but Groot ran off with it before Rocket could stop him.
• As the planet shook, Quill sent Drax carrying Mantis toward the ship while Gamora fell underground and Nebula rescued her.
• Ego attacked the Guardians with tentacles, pinning Yondu, battering Rocket, and forcing the others to dodge as their situation grew desperate.
• Quill answered Ego’s taunts with gunfire, and just as the team neared defeat, Quill erupted.

Quill broke free of Ego’s control and fought back, while Rocket, Groot, and Yondu prepared to escape the planet. As Quill struggled against Ego underground, Pietro joined him with a fiery attack that he called a martial soul fusion skill.

• Quill remembered his loved ones, awakened his power, and battered Ego, weakening the planet’s attacks on the others.
• Groot planted a bomb beside Ego’s brain-shaped tissue, mistakenly pressed the button beside the detonator, and fled as the countdown began.
• Drax, Gamora, and Nebula reached the ship, while Rocket gave Yondu a flight device and spacesuit before leaving with Groot.
• Ego overpowered Quill, and Yondu stayed behind as Rocket escaped; Pietro left Wanda aboard the ship and raced into the planet’s depths.
• Pietro joined Quill’s fight and covered Quill’s Pac-Man-shaped attack with flames, naming the move “Sonic Starburst Flame Devouring Eight Desolations Formation.”