Chapter Summaries

Doom’s forces slowed the Punisher Robots, but Reed faced a choice between keeping Galactus suppressed and protecting the global damping nodes. Miles took on the Punishers himself, then tore the Psypoint Core from his armor as Rust and the spreading corruption threatened to overwhelm him.

• Doom secretly entered the Baxter Building and approached Franklin, while other Dooms appeared before Reed and deployed Latverian Robots to defend the damping nodes.
• Doom explained that the damping network could disrupt the Punisher Robots’ Cosmic Energy, but Reed feared that redirecting it would free Galactus as the remaining nodes fell.
• Miles told Reed to keep the field focused on Galactus and went after the Punishers, leaving Air-Walker severely damaged and corrupted by Rust.
• At the North Atlantic and Arctic nodes, Miles used the Rust spreading through him to disable Punisher Robots and turn one against its own unit.
• As the corruption flooded his mind, Miles forced Aurora away, tore the Psypoint Core from his armor, and disappeared through a portal.

Miles’s use of Feirotus’s power left him struggling with an invading consciousness, while Reed’s nearly successful effort to weaken Galactus ended when Doom sabotaged the Damping Network and lured Galactus to Latveria with Franklin Richards. Doom stripped Galactus of his cosmic power and killed Galan, but a hand emerged from a spacetime rift, promising that no one would stop it again.

• Miles disabled two Punisher Robots, but his rust-corrupted body and confused self-perception made him fail to recognize Johnny until Aurora reached him and helped stabilize his identity.
• Reed’s overloaded Damping Network weakened Galactus’s energy leakage, but Doom attacked the control system and shut down the network worldwide.
• Doom revealed Franklin Richards through a portal, drawing Galactus away from Earth’s core and into Latveria, where Doom sealed the portal and fired the Big Bang Cannon Array.
• Doom transformed Galactus into his human form, absorbed the cosmic energy, and killed Galan after he warned that Abraxas was waiting in the future.
• The sky and stars went dark as spacetime tore near the moon, and a hand emerged from the rift, declaring that no one would stop it again.

Doom revealed that he had endured forty-two apocalypses and summoned Abraxas, the God of Destruction, as part of a plan to trap him inside a collapsing universe. As reality vanished around Earth, Doom confronted Abraxas and drew a silver lighter.

• Doom defeated Shalla-Bal, then stopped attacking when Reed, Susan, and Miles arrived; Reed demanded that Doom return Franklin.
• Miles deduced that Doom had manipulated events to obtain Galactus’s power, and Doom revealed that he had lived through forty-two apocalypses and that Abraxas would emerge after Galactus’s death.
• Doom explained that Galactus had kept Abraxas imprisoned, but that summoning him was the only way to kill him; Abraxas appeared as the universe began to unravel.
• As people and places across Earth vanished and the planet broke apart, Doom activated the World Anchor, which began stripping regions of the universe from reality.
• Doom declared that the universe was a cage he had prepared for Abraxas, forced the universe’s boundaries to collapse around Earth, and faced Abraxas with a silver lighter.

Doom used the Ultimate Nullifier to erase Universe-828 and destroy its Abraxas projection, but Abraxas returned by tracking Doom across his forty-two time reversals. Doom realized his existence had enabled Abraxas's repeated descents and annihilated himself to stop the new incursion.

• Mobius explained that the TVA had sealed Universe-828 to help Doom trap Abraxas in a recreated reality, as agreed with Loki after the War of Kangs.
• Doom told Miles and Reed that the Ultimate Nullifier would erase the recreated universe, then confronted Abraxas and revealed his plan to take its power and reshape reality.
• The TVA severed Universe-828 from the Time Tree, and Doom activated the Ultimate Nullifier, erasing the universe and its Abraxas projection.
• Miles survived as an anchor and found Doom in the empty universe, but Abraxas began forcing its way back into reality.
• Doom realized Abraxas had followed his existence through his forty-two time reversals, blasted Miles away, and annihilated himself, stopping Abraxas's descent.

Miles found the Doomsday Escape Pod that Reed Richards had used to send Doom out of the doomed universe, then learned how Doom’s time loops had strengthened Abraxas’s connection to reality. He chose to restart the universe’s history and confront Abraxas, but first destroyed the Doom Robot that had concealed information from him and left through the World Gate.

• Miles searched the ruins of Latveria and the Baxter Building, where he found the damaged Doomsday Escape Pod designed by Victor von Doom and Reed Richards.
• Miles repaired the pod and used its recorded coordinates to reach Doom Domain, where Doom revealed that Reed had tricked him into escaping the first apocalypse.
• Doom explained that his repeated time reversals had anchored Abraxas to the universe, and Miles concluded that they had to confront Abraxas before the connection grew stronger.
• Miles persuaded Doom to use the World Anchor to restore the universe to the moment before its destruction, bringing back the sun and Franklin.
• Miles realized the Doom in Doom Domain was a robot, destroyed it with rust and a psychic spear, then entered the World Gate.

Miles warned Doom that his repeated time reversals had made him an anchor for Abraxas, but Doom abandoned the World Anchor plan and returned to Doom Domain. Miles sent Reed, Susan, Ben, Johnny, and Silver Surfer after Doom while entering the Ferrotus Dimension; Feirotus then manifested on Earth and confronted Abraxas as their battle began.

• Miles arrived in space and warned Doom that Earth had already been destroyed and that Doom had become Abraxas's anchor through forty-two time reversals.
• Doom rejected Miles's plea to save the present reality, put away the Ultimate Nullifier, and returned to Doom Domain to reconsider his plan.
• Miles explained the crisis to Reed, Susan, Ben, and Johnny, then opened a portal to the Baxter Building and entered the Ferrotus Dimension to confront Abraxas.
• Reed led Susan, Ben, Johnny, and Silver Surfer through the portal toward Doom Domain to stop Doom and save the universe.
• Feirotus emerged above Latveria, and it and Abraxas vanished from the observable dimensional layer as their battle began.

As the World Anchor collapsed and Abraxas threatened the universe, Reed and the Fantastic Four rallied frightened civilians to search the Baxter Building for the Doomsday Escape Pod. After finding it and learning how the previous Reed had chosen Victor to survive, Reed began formulating a way to stop Abraxas and realized Franklin might become a new Galactus.

• Reed, the Fantastic Four, and Shalla-Bal felt the effects of Feirotus's battle with Abraxas as the two realities began overlapping throughout the Baxter Building.
• Susan reassured the frightened civilians and organized them into search groups, while Reed, Ben, and Johnny directed them to look for the Doomsday Escape Pod.
• Ben rescued a mother and her daughter, Mortina, from collapsing debris, and the mother later reported that her group had found a strange device.
• Shalla-Bal retrieved the Doomsday Escape Pod from the unstable doomsday reality, and Reed discovered his previous self had written, "Go, Victor," on it.
• Reed concluded that the previous version of himself had chosen Victor to survive because Victor could keep working after doomsday and because Reed could not bear to leave his family behind.
• After Shalla-Bal ruled out resurrecting Galactus, Reed remembered Galactus's words about a child inheriting his throne and realized Franklin might become a new Galactus.

Reed prepared to confront Doom while wrestling with the possibility that Franklin might inherit Galactus's role, and Miles witnessed Feirotus's defeat as Abraxas's apocalypse spread. The Fantastic Four crossed into Doom Domain to retrieve Franklin and persuade Doom to help, but Doom challenged Reed to prove his plan as the team began Plan B.

• Reed decided to build a Cosmic Energy Dampener to weaken Victor and considered preparing for Franklin to become a new Galactus, prompting Susan to confront him and erupt in anger.
• Miles witnessed Abraxas overpower Feirotus and realized that the universe had little time left as reality began suffering widespread distortions.
• Doom learned that he would disappear when the World Anchor collapsed and prepared to wait out his final minutes while his magical robot duplicates stood by.
• Shalla-Bal opened a rift between realities, allowing Reed, Susan, Ben, Johnny, and the Dampening Prototype to enter Doom Domain.
• Susan tried to reach Franklin's stasis chamber, but Doom's Cosmic Energy repelled her force field; Reed asked Doom to help defeat Abraxas, and Doom demanded proof before attacking.
• Reed ordered Plan B, Ben welcomed the fight, and Johnny charged at Doom.

Reed and the Fantastic Four tried to stop Doom and save Franklin, but Doom gave up Galactus’s Cosmic Energy so it could flow into the child, whom Shalla-Bal sensed as a new master being born. As Abraxas returned, Doom entered the Apocalypse Universe and used the Ultimate Nullifier against him, accepting that the act would kill him.

• Johnny, Shalla-Bal, Susan, and Ben attacked Doom while Reed activated the Cosmic Energy Dampener, but Doom overcame them and reached Reed.
• Reed revealed his plan to create a new Galactus and explained that Franklin might be Galactus’s chosen successor; Doom disrupted Reed’s attempt to transfer his power and the scattered Cosmic Energy began flowing into Franklin.
• Doom released the rest of his Cosmic Energy, which surged through Susan’s force field into Franklin, while Miles was carried away with Feirotus as Feirotus retreated from Universe-828.
• Shalla-Bal sensed a new master being born, and Doom saw Abraxas emerge again and target the Doom Domain.
• Doom entered the Apocalypse Universe, confronted Abraxas, and activated the Ultimate Nullifier, believing it would kill him.

After Victor von Doom vanished into the Ultimate Nullifier, the collapsing Doom Domain seemed to erase Reed and his family, but Franklin from the future arrived and restored the universe, driving Abraxas away. The Fantastic Four reunited and celebrated their survival, Galactus returned, Doom was resurrected, and future Franklin departed after bidding everyone farewell.

• The World Anchor failed, and Reed, Susan, Franklin, Johnny, Ben, and Shalla-Bal began disappearing as Doom Robots watched.
• Future Franklin appeared, restored time, space, and the stars, and forced Abraxas to retreat from Universe-828.
• Reed and the others returned alive, confirmed the universe had been saved, and told the gathered crowd that they had won.
• Shalla-Bal returned to Taa II and found Galactus back on his throne, while the TVA and Loki observed Universe-828's restored timeline.
• Doom returned to Latveria and became interested in Franklin's power, while future Franklin departed after saying goodbye to his family, Victor, and Miles.

The author reflected on Volume Seven’s plot, characters, and ending, explaining how Franklin’s future inheritance of Galactus’s power created a causal loop that defeated Abraxas. The author then previewed the next volume, where Miles would enter the Black Spirit King’s wasteland-punk X-Men world and undergo a second mutation.

• The author explained that Abraxas became the volume’s final enemy and that Franklin used Galactus’s energy to create a future in which he returned to defeat Abraxas and reshape the universe.
• The author described Reed and Doom’s rivalry and explained that Doom sacrificed himself to advance Reed’s plan, driven by his determination to prove himself superior to Reed.
• The author explained that the Fantastic Four’s care helped Miles recognize his psychological struggles and that Miles let Feirotus go for their sake.
• The author revealed that Feirotus took Miles into the next volume, set in the Black Spirit King’s wasteland-punk world.
• The author previewed Cable and Quentin as planned teammates and said Miles’s Mutant ability would undergo a second mutation.

Miles awoke in a wasteland dimension after being carried away from a battle between the Omega Gang and Feirotus’s cult, and discovered Aurora, his armor, and his powers were gone. When Quentin refused to return the Negative Zone Key, Miles seized it with growing telekinetic force, and their powers collided.

• A ritual at a Nevada scrapyard summoned Miles, whom the cultists hailed as the Child of God, just as Quentin Quire and the Omega Gang attacked.
• Quentin and the Omega Gang defeated the cult’s reanimated Sentinels, took the unconscious Miles, and fled as a giant Sentinel awakened and pursued them.
• The Omega Gang escaped by burying the giant Sentinel under scrap, while a towering man learned that Miles Zero had been taken and that the Black Spirit King wanted his parallel-universe counterpart found.
• Miles woke aboard the Omega Gang’s vehicle, realized Aurora, his armor, and the Negative Zone Key were missing, and saw Quentin holding the Key.
• Miles used his telekinetic power to pull the Negative Zone Key from Quentin, and their opposing powers clashed in an explosive impact.

Miles Zero fought Quentin Quire and the Omega Gang after arriving in a ruined Mutant world, then learned that the Black Spirit King had returned and brought Feirotus into the world. The Negative Zone Key failed, and Aurora warned Miles that the world was dangerous and urged him to find the Black Spirit King.

• Miles abandoned his psychic struggle with Quentin, reclaimed the Negative Zone Key, and threw him into the hallway before fighting off Vincent and Christina.
• Miles recognized the group as Mutants and learned that they were the Omega Gang; after destroying Quentin's psionic shotgun, he gave his name as Miles Zero.
• The Omega Gang explained that the Black Spirit King was a Miles Zero born at Alkali Lake Dam, and Miles revealed that he came from another universe.
• Miles learned that the Black Spirit King had returned five years earlier and summoned Feirotus, whose influence had devastated the world and its technology.
• The Negative Zone Key malfunctioned and exploded after Aurora contacted Miles from the Negative Zone, warning him to find the Black Spirit King; Quentin confirmed that Feirotus's rules had collapsed civilization.

Miles learned that Feirotus had crippled technology and civilization in this world, then joined Quentin and the others on their way to Xavier Institute. His attempt to use the abandoned communications network awakened hordes of Scarlet Sentinels, and the group escaped after Miles briefly controlled a few of them.

• Quentin and Herman told Miles about the collapsed world, Vespera, and Xavier Institute's relocation to Greymalkin, and Quentin decided his group would travel there with Miles.
• Miles found that Feirotus's rules disrupted his Psionic Magic and his attempt to use the Eternal Crystal Shard, then restarted an abandoned communications tower to search for information.
• The tower's signal awakened dormant machines across the wasteland, which identified Miles as the Black Spirit King.
• Vincent warned Miles that Scarlet Sentinels had appeared, and the group drove into a horde of corrupted machines that blocked their route.
• Miles halted the machines briefly and redirected six nearby Sentinels to open an escape route, allowing Quentin, Vincent, and the others to drive out of the encirclement.

Miles and the Omega Gang reached Hawthorne Town, where he concealed his identity and learned that a nearby Sentinel Factory had become active again. The gang accepted a job to investigate and destroy it, and Miles decided to join them as the Black Spirit King’s forces searched for him.

• In Vespera’s Silent Court, Exodus told Nexarion that another version of him had appeared in the Nevada wilderness, and Nexarion ordered him to bring the man in.
• After their vehicle broke down, Quentin’s group traveled to Hawthorne Town, where Miles learned about the White Court and saw how Mutants lived and worked in the wasteland.
• Miles disguised himself with a metal mask and gray robe, then rejoined Herman and Radian at the truck motel as Quentin met Marshall Stone of the Hawthorne Gang.
• Marshall hired the Omega Gang to investigate an old Sentinel Factory northwest of town and destroy it if it was coming back online, agreeing to pay four barrels of diesel and any recoverable parts.
• Miles decided to join the mission because the factory might contain data that could explain why the Scarlet Sentinels had mistaken him for the Black Spirit King.

Miles and Quentin entered the underground Sentinel Factory to investigate Eli Finch’s missing brother and an unusual signal connected to Miles. They fought through the awakened Sentinels and destroyed a massive aggregate monster, then continued toward the signal Miles sensed ahead.

• Eli Finch led Quentin, Miles, and the others to the underground entrance where his brother Sam’s scavenger team had disappeared.
• Miles detected at least twenty Sentinel signals below and sensed a larger, unusual signal that seemed to call to him.
• Miles and Quentin descended into the facility, where Quentin accidentally destroyed Miles’s controlled Sentinels and the pair battled waves of awakened machines.
• Quentin awakened even more Sentinels with his Disco Orb, and Miles and Quentin fought their way through the resulting horde.
• A monster formed from fused Sentinels emerged, resisted Miles’s control, and was destroyed after Miles restrained it and Quentin blasted it with a rocket launcher.
• Miles sensed that the signal connected to him lay farther ahead, and he and Quentin continued down the corridor.

Miles and Quentin discovered a Prime Model at the Sentinel Factory, where Miles saw a memory of Aurora defending an unconscious Miles Zero from Sentinel Robots. The Prime Model recognized Miles, but he seized its core and helped the Omega Gang clear the factory; on the way back, Miles asked Quentin about Aurora and resolved to seek answers at the academy.

• Miles and Quentin found a malfunctioning Sentinel production line and identified a giant Prime Model as the factory’s control center.
• Miles accessed the Prime Model and witnessed a memory of Aurora shielding an unconscious Miles Zero from attacking Sentinel Robots before she was overwhelmed.
• The Prime Model awakened and attacked Miles, but Quentin pulled him clear as Scarlet Sentinels throughout the factory turned against them.
• The Omega Gang arrived to fight the Scarlet Sentinels while Miles used his authority to make the Prime Model surrender its core and then helped clear the factory.
• On the drive back to Hawthorne Town, Eli revealed he had found his brother Sam, and Miles told Quentin the core might contain information about the Black Spirit King.
• Miles asked Quentin whether he had heard of Aurora and decided he would need to go to the academy for answers.

Quentin, Miles, and the Omega Gang encountered a caravan under attack by Scarlet Sentinels, which Rogue and Sooraya helped destroy. As the caravan prepared to travel to the Xavier Institute, Miles introduced himself to Rogue as Miles Zero, leaving her startled.

• Marshall learned that the Resistance Army had arrived near Hawthorne Town after Quentin and his group departed.
• Miles discussed the Eternal Crystal Shard and a Sentinel core with Quentin while the truck headed toward Greymalkin.
• The group found a caravan being attacked by Scarlet Sentinels and a towering aggregate machine, and Rogue destroyed the machine with lightning and a punch.
• Sooraya and Quentin joined Rogue in defeating the remaining Sentinels, then Callisto identified the caravan as a White Court convoy carrying supplies promised by Ms. Frost.
• Rogue offered to take Miles to the Institute, and she reacted with alarm when he said his name was Miles Zero.

Miles arrived at Greymalkin Town and met Ororo Munroe, who welcomed him to Xavier Institute after Rogue confirmed he was not the Black Spirit King of their world. As Miles sought answers about Feirotus and his counterpart, the Institute’s out-of-control Danger Room raised a new concern.

• Ororo rationed the Institute’s dwindling supplies and assigned work as Kurt reported new children, shortages, and a late caravan.
• Rogue recognized Miles’s resemblance to the Black Spirit King, tested him by touching his hand, and confirmed he was different from her lost fiancé’s killer.
• Sooraya explained that the Black Spirit King had killed several senior X-Men, including Jean Grey, and that Logan had left for Utah.
• Ororo welcomed Miles to Xavier Institute and questioned him about his counterpart, Feirotus, and his goal of returning to another Xavier Institute.
• Colossus mistook Miles for the Black Spirit King and protected the children before Ororo clarified that he came from another universe.
• Colossus reported that a strange Scarlet Sentinel had emerged from the long-out-of-control Danger Room, and Miles asked whether the room was still operational.

Miles investigated the out-of-control Danger Room, met the academy students, and learned that Rogue had glimpsed Feirotus through contact with him. While researching the Black Spirit King in the archives, he was confronted by Cable, who warned that the Black Spirit King had noticed him.

• Ororo and Colossus showed Miles the barricaded Danger Room, where a newly appeared composite Scarlet Sentinel had been frozen after emerging the previous night.
• David Alleyne instinctively absorbed fragments of Miles's knowledge, and Ororo sent David and Miles to the Infirmary after Nightcrawler reported Rogue was stable.
• Miles met Rogue and the students; Rogue described seeing a rusted world and an enormous presence when she touched him.
• David took Miles to the archives, where Miles read the Black Spirit King's records and found an old photograph of the nearly identical Miles Zero.
• Cable appeared behind Miles and warned that the Black Spirit King had noticed him, urging him to leave with him to protect the institute.