Chapter Summaries

Quicksilver and Quill nearly destroyed Ego, but Ego unleashed planetary energy that swallowed all three and sent Quicksilver and Quill into the Abyss. As Dormammu’s true body reached Bohart, Rocket fled with the remaining Guardians, believing Quill and Pietro were dead as a bomb’s countdown continued.

• Quicksilver used his speed to amplify Quill’s energy attacks and guide Quill into a powerful charge that cracked Ego’s rock giant.
• Ego detonated the planet’s source energy, engulfing his giant form, Quicksilver, and Quill in a catastrophic explosion that sent Quill and Pietro falling into the Abyss.
• Dormammu’s true body arrived at Bohart, and Su Ming sensed the demon’s presence while Strange continued trapping Dormammu’s projection in a Time Loop on Earth.
• Rocket returned to the ship and stayed silent as Gamora demanded to know where Quill and Pietro were.
• Rocket stunned Gamora to keep her from leaving, then ordered Kraglin to take off while the bomb’s countdown continued.

Dormammu overwhelmed Su Ming and hurled him deep into Ego's planet, while the injured Ego tried to reach his core and stop the bomb. Peter Quill and Quicksilver blocked Ego's path, leaving him unable to return.

• Dormammu demanded the Starcore Fragment, and Su Ming refused to surrender it.
• Su Ming used his powers and the Infinity Stones to fend off Dormammu's first attack, but Dormammu's true dark laws nullified his defenses.
• Dormammu struck Su Ming into a crater, sending him plunging toward Ego's core.
• Ego woke among the rubble and struggled to return to his core before the bomb went off.
• Peter Quill grabbed Ego's ankle, and Quicksilver blocked his way to the core.

Su Ming redirected himself into Ego’s exploding core and absorbed the planet’s vast energy to survive Dormammu’s attack. As his Dharma Giant began draining energy from across the planet, the struggle against Dormammu remained unresolved.

• Quill rejected Ego’s promise of godhood, and Groot’s bomb collapsed Ego’s core, killing the Celestial.
• Su Ming endured Dormammu’s attack and realized he needed a tremendous source of external energy to survive.
• Su Ming contacted Rocket, learned the bomb was about to explode, and redirected himself toward Ego’s core.
• As the bomb detonated, Su Ming activated Energy Absorption and drew in the explosion’s energy, healing and strengthening his body.
• Su Ming summoned his Dharma Giant, which began drawing the planet’s buried origin energy into itself.

Quill escaped the collapsing planet with Yondu and Quicksilver, but Yondu sacrificed himself to save him. Dormammu then attacked the escaping ship, and Rocket and the others faced annihilation until Groot made them look outside.

• Quill confirmed that Ego was dead, and Pietro shoved him clear of the collapsing ruins.
• Yondu carried Quill and Quicksilver off the planet, gave Quill a spacesuit, and confessed that having him as a son had been his good fortune.
• Yondu’s thrusters failed in space, and he froze to death while Quill helplessly mourned him.
• Dormammu sensed a new power rising beneath Bohart, then sent a wave of Dark Dimension energy after the escaping ship.
• Kraglin, Rocket, Wanda, Gamora, Drax, and Groot braced for the ship’s destruction until Groot drew Rocket’s attention to something outside.

Su Ming arrived in time to shield Rocket and the others from Dormammu’s annihilating attack. After the spacecraft was saved, Rocket realized Groot had plucked most of the fur from his head and chased him through the cabin.

• Dormammu’s wave of annihilation began disintegrating Rocket’s spacecraft as its crew despaired.
• Groot spotted Su Ming approaching and tried to rouse Rocket, but Rocket remained convinced they were about to die.
• Su Ming appeared before the spacecraft and raised a golden barrier that halted Dormammu’s attack.
• Rocket celebrated Su Ming’s arrival, then discovered the fur in his hand had come from his newly bald scalp.
• Groot fled as Rocket chased him, after Groot explained that he had plucked Rocket’s fur to get his attention.

Su Ming protected the ship from the destructive currents while Quicksilver carried the grieving Quill back to safety. Quill woke confused and joking, apparently unable to remember Yondu’s sacrifice.

• Su Ming appeared and shielded the ship from the annihilating force, restoring hope to its crew.
• Quicksilver found Quill clinging to Yondu’s lifeless body and tried to persuade him to leave Yondu behind.
• When Quill refused, Quicksilver knocked him unconscious and carried him toward the ship on his dwindling thruster fuel.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to pull Quicksilver and Quill aboard as their momentum faded.
• Quill woke, saw Su Ming protecting the ship, and asked who he was before laughing at Rocket and bringing himself to tears.

As Ego's Planet collapsed, Su Ming used the power he had absorbed to save Yondu from death and strengthen himself against Dormammu. The chapter ended as Su Ming's Dharma Giant wounded the Dark Dimension and faced Dormammu in a full-scale battle.

• Kraglin recovered Yondu's body and placed him in the medical pod as Ego's Planet began to explode.
• Su Ming sensed Yondu's faint life aura and used emerald energy to snap the death thread, restoring Yondu's life signal.
• Su Ming's four Starcore Fragments absorbed and refined Ego's planetary energy, greatly increasing his strength and stabilizing his Heavenly Manifestation.
• Dormammu attacked Su Ming with a vast tide of darkness, but the Dharma Giant raised the Sky-Piercing Halberd infused with Faith Energy.
• Su Ming's halberd split and purified Dormammu's attack, cutting a burning wound into the Dark Dimension as Ego's Planet collapsed.
• Su Ming's golden-armored Dharma Giant stood before Dormammu's Dark Dimension, and their full battle began.

Su Ming turned the energy from Ego's Planet's destruction into a crimson cloak and drove Dormammu to retreat, but Dormammu discovered his four Starcore Fragments and vowed to return with allies. Su Ming revived Yondu, who accepted the offer to join the group on one condition.

• Su Ming shaped Ego's Planet's explosive energy into a Destruction Cloak and faced Dormammu with renewed power.
• Dormammu sensed the four Starcore Fragments inside Su Ming, recognized their value, and retreated while threatening to return with others.
• Su Ming returned to the spaceship, where the crew thanked him for saving them and Yondu.
• Su Ming healed Yondu, who woke and learned that Su Ming had pulled him back from death.
• Yondu lamented the loss of his crew, then agreed to join Su Ming's group on one condition.

After Dormammu retreated, Su Ming and the Guardians discussed Yondu’s condition for joining the Galaxy Guard Corps: they had to tell the Ravagers he died heroically. Wanda recognized that the joke concealed Yondu’s loneliness and longing for a new family, and the group began planning his fake death.

• Su Ming realized that Starcore Fragments attracted beings as powerful as Dormammu and welcomed the increased challenge.
• Yondu asked Su Ming to tell Stakar and the Ravagers that he had died gloriously, so he could later surprise them at his funeral.
• Quill, Rocket, and the others reacted to Yondu’s plan with jokes and began discussing how to make his fabricated death convincing.
• Wanda sensed Yondu’s pain over losing his place among the Ravagers and understood that his request was also a way to leave his past behind.
• Su Ming approved a story in which Yondu died saving Xandar from Ego, and Rocket and Quill began preparing false records and an obituary.

Yondu revealed himself alive at his Ravager funeral and declined Stakar's invitation to return, choosing instead to rejoin Quill and the Guardians. As the Milano departed with the massive Guardian Corps fleet, Yondu handed Kraglin his old Yaka Arrow and Ravager crew badge, leaving him in charge of the crew.

• Stakar and the Ravagers honored Yondu with a funeral in orbit above Contraxia, but Yondu suddenly arrived alive and shocked everyone.
• Stakar invited Yondu to return to the Ravagers, but Yondu refused and said he had found a new home with the troublemakers aboard the Milano.
• A fleet of more than a thousand ships appeared and surrounded the Milano as Yondu headed toward it.
• Yondu gave Kraglin his repaired Yaka Arrow and his original crew badge, making Kraglin responsible for his Ravager crew.
• Yondu boarded the Milano and departed with Quill and the Guardian Corps fleet, while Stakar watched and said Yondu had finally found a good home.

Kraglin struggled to control Yondu’s former Yaka Arrow while Stakar reunited his veteran Ravager crew, and Ayesha prepared a new creation named Adam. As the Galaxy Guard Corps fleet traveled toward Asgard, Su Ming reflected on his transformation and reached Starry Vault Godhood.

• Kraglin lost control of Yondu’s former Yaka Arrow, which struck one of his newly recruited Ravagers, and he fled the scene.
• Stakar reunited with his founding Ravager crew and announced that they would steal things together.
• Ayesha told her maid that her golden cultivation device would produce Adam, a creation meant to destroy the Galaxy Guard Corps.
• The Galaxy Guard Corps fleet set course for Asgard, while Yondu tested the Golden One Yaka Arrow Su Ming had given him.
• Su Ming reviewed the changes to his body and powers after absorbing energy from Ego’s Planet and a Starcore Fragment.
• Su Ming’s system announced that he had advanced to Starry Vault Godhood, and his status panel showed him at stage 4/6.

Su Ming heard a mysterious ancient voice react to the energy inside him, then accidentally released a trace of divine might that threw his companions into chaos. He realized the energy came from a higher-dimensional source and continued toward Asgard, where he planned to seek its treasures.

• Su Ming heard a disdainful voice complain about the things inside his body, but found no presence when he searched the ship.
• Su Ming accidentally leaked divine might, knocking Yondu down, frightening Mantis unconscious, and causing chaos among his companions.
• Su Ming recognized that the violet-gold energy in him was not Odin's and suspected higher-dimensional beings had given it to him through Odin.
• Su Ming thought about reaching Asgard and taking Odin's treasures while preparing for the dangers ahead.
• Quill and Rocket argued over the bathroom after the ship passed through cosmic turbulence.

Su Ming's crew changed course toward Sakaar while Hela returned to Asgard, crushed its defenders, and claimed the Eternal Flame. She used it to awaken her Death Legion and prepared to conquer the Nine Realms.

• Su Ming persuaded the crew to investigate Sakaar, and the New Milano Flagship Pro Max headed toward the planet.
• Hela caught and destroyed Mjolnir, then disrupted the Bifrost and hurled Thor and Loki into unknown corners of the universe.
• Hela arrived in Asgard, killed two soldiers, and forced Skoll to submit before slaughtering the Asgardian army with her Death Legion.
• Hela entered Odin's Vault, ignored its other treasures, and took the Eternal Flame.
• Hela poured her death power into the Eternal Flame and called on it to awaken her warriors.

Su Ming’s group arrived on Sakaar and watched the arena, where Thor was being prepared to fight and Hulk was already a champion. Loki spotted Su Ming in the crowd and panicked after remembering how Su Ming had stripped him of his armor; Su Ming confirmed the humiliating encounter as “full set.”

• Hela unleashed Asgard’s undead army, including Fenrir, as Ragnarok began.
• Su Ming and the Guardian Corps arrived on Sakaar, where Quill, Rocket, Drax, Wanda, Pietro, Yondu, and Groot explored the spaceport.
• Scrapper 142 brought Thor, newly shorn and wearing a power-suppressing shock collar, toward the arena, while Loki enjoyed a VIP box as the Grandmaster’s guest.
• Quill and Rocket led the group into the arena, where they saw Hulk defeating an opponent and spotted Thor being escorted below.
• Thor recognized Su Ming and tried to greet him, while Loki saw Su Ming, dropped his drink, and trembled in fear.
• Quill asked Su Ming about Loki, and Su Ming said he had stripped Loki of his full set of armor.

Su Ming and the Guardians laughed at Loki’s humiliation, prompting Loki to warn the Grandmaster about Su Ming and the Grandmaster to consider recruiting him for the arena. Thor was captured and shocked, while Su Ming began eyeing Sakaar’s wealth.

• Quill, Rocket, Drax, Mantis, Wanda, Pietro, and Yondu laughed as Su Ming described stripping Loki of his armor, and Loki angrily called it a sneak attack.
• Loki warned the Grandmaster that Su Ming was dangerous and might threaten his rule, but the Grandmaster became interested in making Su Ming fight in the arena.
• Thor called out to Loki for help, but Loki denied knowing him, and Valkyrie Topaz shocked Thor with his controller.
• Wanda asked whether they should help Thor, but Su Ming and the Guardians dismissed it as family business and joked about his shock collar.
• Su Ming noticed the Grandmaster sizing him up and wondered how Sakaar’s treasury compared with Asgard’s.

Su Ming scanned Sakaar and discovered the Grandmaster’s private treasury, accidentally releasing a trace of his divine pressure that terrified everyone in the arena. He gathered the Guardian Corps to leave for a closer look at his new discovery, setting up a raid on the treasury.

• Loki tried to sow discord, but the Grandmaster dismissed him and fixed his attention on Su Ming.
• Su Ming used his divine consciousness to locate the Grandmaster’s hidden treasury and identify several unusual treasures.
• A trace of Su Ming’s Starry Vault Godhood pressure swept through the arena, silencing the crowd and startling Hulk, Thor, and the Guardian Corps.
• Loki recognized Su Ming’s aura and panicked, while the Grandmaster searched the arena for its source.
• Su Ming told the Guardian Corps to leave with him and hinted that the things they found would make the arena’s attractions seem unimportant.

Su Ming brought the entire Galaxy Guard Corps into the Grandmaster’s vault and let them take its treasures. When he picked up a strange meteorite, it transformed into a little girl who called him Daddy and identified him as her creator factor provider and potential spacetime anchor.

• Su Ming teleported every member of the Galaxy Guard Corps into the Grandmaster’s treasure vault and disabled its security system.
• Su Ming told his subordinates to take whatever they wanted, and the Guardians enthusiastically filled their bags with treasures.
• Su Ming noticed a faintly unusual meteorite in a pile of discarded objects and picked it up.
• The meteorite transformed into a little girl with violet and golden eyes, stunning everyone in the vault.
• The girl called Su Ming Daddy, explained that he was her creator factor provider and potential spacetime anchor, then asked him to hold her.

Su Ming’s generosity over the treasury’s loot strengthened the Galaxy Guard Corps’ loyalty, while a mysterious girl insisted he was her father and received the names Purple Jewel and Gold Jewel. As the group celebrated, Loki watched from hiding and began plotting revenge using the arena’s caged beasts.

• Su Ming let the Galaxy Guard Corps take as much treasure as they could, earning their gratitude and deepening their trust in him.
• Drax asked how Su Ming had made the little girl grow so quickly, and Su Ming sensed that her nature was tied to the laws of Infinity and Eternity.
• Su Ming tried to deny being the girl’s father, but she cried and insisted he was, prompting the others to pressure him into comforting her.
• Su Ming accepted the girl for the time being and named her Purple Jewel and Gold Jewel after her differently colored eyes, drawing laughter from the group.
• Loki watched the celebration from a hidden corner of the treasury, resented being beaten to the loot, and began plotting with the arena’s caged beasts.

Thor entered the gladiator arena on Sakaar and was forced to fight Hulk, his old friend. The Grandmaster secretly ensured Hulk won, while Su Ming’s team arrived after the betting closed and learned Pietro had placed a winning ten-billion-credit bet on Hulk.

• Thor met Korg and discovered that Valkyrie was a former Asgardian, but she refused to help him escape.
• Thor entered the arena and recognized Hulk, while Loki panicked at seeing another source of his nightmares.
• Hulk attacked Thor, and Thor briefly struck back with Hulk’s hammer before Hulk overpowered him.
• Thor’s lightning powers awakened as he fought Hulk, but the Grandmaster activated Thor’s shock collar to keep Hulk’s undefeated record intact.
• Su Ming and his team returned to the stands after the match, where Pietro revealed he had bet ten billion credits on Hulk and won ten billion in profit.

Su Ming and his crew regrouped with Hulk and Thor while Sakaar descended into chaos, turning the escaping creatures into another opportunity to collect valuables. As the group prepared an intimidating show of force, Wanda gave Purple Jewel fluffy cat ears.

• Su Ming’s crew regretted missing the bet on Hulk, then celebrated the far greater treasure they had stolen from the Grandmaster’s vault.
• Su Ming teleported the crew into Hulk’s lounge, where Thor woke and begged for help against Hela; Su Ming offered to help after looting Sakaar and demanded payment from Asgard’s treasury.
• Loki released the arena’s caged beasts and prisoners, causing chaos across Sakaar, but Su Ming sent his crew to capture valuable creatures and salvage their parts.
• Su Ming had Wanda, Gamora, and Mantis pose behind him, and Wanda created a blood-red throne with Chaos Magic.
• Purple Jewel joined Su Ming, analyzed the group’s dramatic display, and Wanda used Chaos Magic to give her fluffy cat ears, delighting everyone present.