Chapter Summaries

Kamala and the others reached Asgard, where Valkyrie showed them a feast and a despairing Thor. Wanda Maximoff revealed she had turned the Asgardians into zombies as part of her plan to obtain enough power to restore the world, then exposed her real target: Miles.

• Valkyrie led the group into an Asgardian hall where warriors feasted, and Hawkeye warned Red Guardian Alexei not to eat or drink.
• Kamala asked Thor for help with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s device, but Valkyrie said he was broken and did not want to be disturbed.
• Valkyrie identified Wanda Maximoff as the Queen of Sokovia, and Kamala and Lily accused her of being the Queen of the Dead.
• Wanda said she had cured herself of infection and needed an army of divine soldiers to reclaim the Infinity Stone energy, then used Chaos Magic to reveal that the feast was zombie flesh.
• Wanda turned the Asgardians who had eaten into zombies and asked Kamala and Miles to join her, saying she wanted Miles.
• Miles and Wanda revealed their zombie forms and prepared to face each other.

Miles and the others fought the Chaos-controlled Asgardian zombies while Miles battled Zombie Wanda, who overpowered his initial attacks. He used Personality Simulation to fight as Hawkeye and wounded Wanda, then aimed a powerful Eternals Secret Arrow at her.

• Zombie Wanda seized control of the transformed Asgardians, and Miles revealed he had planted explosives in the banquet hall to blast the zombies away.
• Miles and the others fought through the hall as Valkyrie tried to reach Thor, Hawkeye saved Shang-Chi, and Kamala’s crystal weapon shattered against Wanda’s magic.
• Miles’s cannon blast failed against Wanda’s Chaos Magic, so he donned the Phastos Armor, reinforced his body, and attacked with a psionic spear.
• Miles activated Personality Simulation based on Zombie Hawkeye, adopted Clint Barton’s combat skills, and injured Wanda with psionic claws.
• Wanda unleashed a destructive magical burst, and Miles retreated before transforming the Phastos Armor into a longbow and firing an Eternals Secret Arrow at her.

Miles, Thor, Hawkeye, and the others fought Zombie Wanda as they tried to escape the ruined New Asgard. Thor and Hawkeye helped Miles flee, but Wanda survived and pursued them as a spacecraft also lifted from the valley.

• Miles wounded Zombie Wanda with the Staff of Phastos, but his damaged body began to fail, and Thor stayed behind to face her while Valkyrie charged into the horde.
• Miles and Hawkeye joined Thor’s battle as the others followed Valkyrie’s directions toward the ship; Miles used telekinesis to force Valkyrie away from the fight and save her.
• Wanda overpowered Thor and bound him, but Miles shielded him with the Staff of Phastos and urged him to escape rather than let Wanda turn him into a monster.
• Hawkeye interrupted Thor’s attempt to kill himself, then used a series of Eternals Secret Arrows to blast apart Wanda’s body and create an opening for their escape.
• Wanda regenerated, but Thor accepted Miles’s help and carried Miles and Hawkeye away in a lightning bolt while Hawkeye’s final arrow delayed Wanda’s pursuit.
• A red spacecraft rose from the valley as Wanda watched the fleeing Thor, Miles, and Hawkeye and prepared to chase them.

The survivors escaped a Nova Corps blockade after Miles used a psychic seed to make a Centurion stand down, and Miles planned to turn the Xandarians against Scarlet Witch's forces. As they returned toward Earth, Lintra, the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj, arrived with news about the world's condition.

• Valkyrie flew the ship beyond the colorful Wakanda Fallout, where the group contacted the Nova Corps and discovered its fighters had already blockaded Earth.
• The Nova Corps declared Earth quarantined and attacked the ship, but Miles protected it with the Staff of Phastos: Bulwark while Thor destroyed several fighters.
• Miles entered a Centurion's mind, planted a Psychic Seed, and altered his orders so the Nova Corps stopped pursuing the ship.
• Miles explained that he intended to use the Nova Corps against Scarlet Witch after gathering more survivors, while Thor and the others returned toward Earth.
• Lintra and several sorcerers emerged through golden portals, and Lintra introduced himself as Kamar-Taj's Sorcerer Supreme before offering to explain the state of the world.

Miles learned how Thanos and T’Challa died in Wakanda and how Hulk became the vessel for the shattered Infinity Stones. With Kamar-Taj’s help, Miles reconnected to the Dream World, where he found Zombie Tony and faced a zombified Ikaris attacking their laboratory.

• Lintra told Miles that T’Challa sacrificed himself to stop Thanos, and Hulk absorbed the energy released when all six Infinity Stones shattered.
• Miles explained the connection between the two worlds, and Lintra agreed to help him reach his other self while warning that Scarlet Witch planned to claim Hulk’s power.
• Miles warned Thor that the Zombie Virus could infect Eternals and asked him to protect the others while he contacted Tony Stark in the Dream World.
• Lintra and Drumm used spells to guide Miles through the barrier into the Dream World, where he found Zombie Tony working on Dawnlight calculations.
• Zombie Tony began explaining the danger, but a zombified Ikaris broke through the laboratory ceiling and confronted Miles.

Miles and Quicksilver fought Zombie Makkari after Zombie Tony was killed, and Tony entrusted Miles with his memories and the Dawnlight plan. Miles salvaged Makkari’s Energy Core and fashioned the Blade of Makkari just as Zombie Ikaris approached.

• Iron Man shielded Miles from Zombie Ikaris and flew him to an abandoned stadium, where he described the outbreak and Tony’s Dawnlight plan.
• Zombie Makkari ambushed the pair and fatally pierced Tony with a Vibranium Spear, but Quicksilver intervened and fought her.
• Miles disrupted Makkari with a Psychic Blast, allowing Quicksilver to restrain her while Miles drove the spear into her Energy Core.
• Tony revealed he had infected himself to stay alive and continue his research, then sent Miles his memories before dying.
• Miles sent Tony’s armor away with Friday, extracted Makkari’s Energy Core, and fashioned the Blade of Makkari from her body.
• Zombie Ikaris appeared on the horizon as Miles and Quicksilver prepared for the approaching threat.

Miles defeated Zombie Ikaris in the Dream World after the Phoenix Force awakened through Madeleine’s call, then returned to Zombie World with knowledge of how to complete Dawnlight. He left the other-world Miles instructions to find Madeleine and Hank Pym while preparing to race to Iraq before the Scarlet Witch acted.

• Miles used the Blade of Makkari and Quicksilver’s help to fight Zombie Ikaris, but Ikaris adapted to his attacks and began pulling the Vibranium Spear from his chest.
• Madeleine’s call ignited Miles’s Phoenix Brand, empowering the spear so Miles could pierce Ikaris’s chest and kill him.
• The Scarlet Witch noticed Miles’s cross-dimensional actions, and the world’s rules pulled his consciousness away after he told the other-world Miles to protect Madeleine, create Dawnlight, and find Hank Pym.
• Miles returned to Kamar-Taj, told Master Lintra that Dawnlight had been completed, and asked Master London to take him to Iraq to search for something at the Eternals’ Tomo.
• Miles concluded that the Dream World remained in danger from the other Eternals and wondered what the Scarlet Witch had done and whether Madeleine had truly contacted him.

Miles repaired a Nova Corps Starblaster and secretly uploaded Ultron into the Corps network to seize control of the fleet surrounding Earth. He rallied the others to prepare for war while assigning support roles, then asked Lintra to take him to see Hulk.

• Miles used his psychic abilities and the Staff of Phastos to repair a Nova Corps fighter and began building a control terminal with Peter and Lily.
• Miles possessed a Xandarian Centurion and secretly uploaded Ultron into the Nova Corps command network, which was set to infect fighters across the fleet.
• Miles warned the group that the Nova Corps was weighing attacks capable of destroying Earth and proposed fighting both the Corps and the Scarlet Witch; Thor and the others agreed.
• Miles assigned Lily and Peter to support Ultron, asked Zemo to command the operation, and told Lintra to keep watch on the witch.
• Miles said he needed to continue the Dawnlight research to restore his body, offered to build Scott a body, and asked Lintra to take him to see Hulk.

Miles investigated Infinite Hulk’s containment of the shattered Infinity Stones’ power, then returned to Washington, D.C., where Zombie Eternals attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. shelter. He saved Madeleine and Stasis from a falling vehicle and went to face the attackers alone, while Madeleine begged for his life.

• In the Zombie World, Miles learned from Master Lintra that Infinite Hulk had contained the destructive energy released by the shattered Infinity Stones, but Hulk could not be awakened; Miles also spotted Zombie Ikaris before returning to the Dream World.
• At the S.H.I.E.L.D. shelter, Miles passed Madeleine and her adoptive father, Stasis, without speaking and hurried to meet the zombified Hank Pym.
• When Pym refused to cooperate, Miles used Mind Control to force his experiences into Pym’s mind and secure his temporary agreement, then the base sounded an enemy-attack alarm.
• Gilgamesh, Thena, Sprite, Druid, and Sersi broke into the shelter, blocked gunfire, and used Druid’s control to make the defending agents shoot themselves.
• Gilgamesh hurled an armored vehicle at Madeleine and Stasis, but Miles caught it and urged them to run before putting on his mask and advancing alone toward the Zombie Eternals.
• Madeleine tried to follow Miles, but Stasis held her back as she cried and pleaded for him to be saved.

Miles and the heroes fought the Zombie Eternals while S.H.I.E.L.D. evacuated its equipment for Dawnlight. The battle turned when Doctor Strange began transforming into a zombie through a curse that imposed another world's fate on this one.

• Miles used Makkari's Energy Core to blast Gilgamesh, but Gilgamesh survived and attacked Miles with help from Thena and Druid.
• Madeleine nearly lent her body to a voice in her mind to save Miles, but Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner arrived through a portal before she acted.
• Doctor Strange restrained Gilgamesh, and Pym stunned him with a bioelectric shot so Strange could rescue Miles; Miles then invaded Banner's mind and found Hulk withdrawn in a dark prison.
• Spider-Man evaded Thena's attacks and struck Sprite, but Druid's psychic attack left him vulnerable until Miles blocked it; Hulk emerged and clashed with Gilgamesh.
• Pym arrived to help the group protect the base's equipment, while Strange fought Sersi and the refugees celebrated the heroes' arrival.
• Doctor Strange's hand began withering, and he realized a curse was making his zombie fate from another world an established fact before he transformed and attacked.

Miles and the heroes joined the battle against Zombie Wanda’s forces in Wakanda while Nova Corps fighters fought across Earth. As Dawnlight finished, Miles regained his human appearance and the Staff of Phastos reassembled in his hand.

• At the Sky Pillar, Hulk destroyed waves of zombies but grew exhausted after Wanda drowned and buried him beneath the horde and attacked him with giant zombies and Asgardian warships.
• Thor, Miles, and the other heroes arrived and drove Wanda back, while she summoned six Zombie Eternals and sent her army against them.
• Miles called in Starblaster fighters, and the Nova Corps fleet fell into a civil war as defecting fighters turned toward Earth and Zemo commanded Ultron’s forces against them.
• The Starblasters supported the heroes in Wakanda as Thor engaged Zombie Ikaris and the others fought the horde.
• Miles completed Dawnlight, which restored his human appearance and reassembled the Staff of Phastos in his hand.

Miles used Dawnlight to begin purging the Zombie Virus across the Wakandan battlefield, restoring several heroes while Zombie Wanda suppressed the zombies’ returning humanity and ordered them to attack him. As Miles confronted Wanda, Thor rose with Gungnir and renewed power to face Zombie Gilgamesh.

• Miles used Dawnlight on Zombie Hawkeye, then expanded its reach with the Energy Prism to purify the battlefield.
• Zombie Wanda used Chaos Magic to suppress the zombies’ memories and directed them to destroy the prism and kill Miles; Kamala, Spider-Man, and other fighters held them back.
• Miles entered Infinite Hulk’s mind to call for Dr. Banner, while Dawnlight restored Alexei and Yelena and returned Shang-Chi to normal, completing the Ten Rings.
• Miles learned the Energy Prism could not last and flew to confront Zombie Wanda, using a portal opened by Master Lintra to strike at her from behind.
• Thor fought Zombie Ikaris and Zombie Gilgamesh until Dawnlight restored Sif, who urged him to stand; Gungnir then appeared, and Thor took up the spear as his wounds healed and his power returned.
• Thor clashed with Zombie Gilgamesh, meeting the zombie’s fist with Gungnir.

Thor fought Gilgamesh and Ikaris while Miles and the other defenders battled the zombie Eternals across Wakanda. As Zombie Wanda began breaking Miles’s Suppression Field, he reached Dr. Banner’s consciousness and revealed that Hulk had become the world’s pillar to save him.

• Thor shattered Gilgamesh’s energy gauntlet with Gungnir, then fought Gilgamesh and Ikaris at once, injuring and knocking Ikaris from the sky.
• Master Drumm and Sara fought through Sprite’s illusions, while Spider-Man Peter Parker helped Scott fend off Thena and Blade Knight Eric Brooks confronted Druid.
• Shang-Chi faced Sersi as Miles attacked Zombie Wanda with Cosmic Energy and coordinated Starblaster fire.
• Miles and Hawkeye Clint struck Wanda with a paired attack, with Clint’s hidden arrow piercing her chest after she caught Miles’s first arrow.
• Miles trapped Wanda in a Staff of Phastos Suppression Field and reached Dr. Banner, explaining that Hulk had sacrificed himself so Banner could live.

Miles used the chaotic energy Hulk lent him to overwhelm Zombie Wanda, while Thor's Gungnir pierced her and helped annihilate her. As the survivors faced the aftermath, Arishem the Judge appeared above Earth and declared the planet would be destroyed to make way for a new world.

• Dr. Banner accepted Miles's promise to find a way to awaken Hulk and lent him power from the shattered Infinity Stones.
• Miles channeled the chaotic energy through the Staff of Phastos amplifier and began erasing Zombie Wanda, but her Chaos Magic surged back.
• Thor's Gungnir pierced Zombie Wanda's heart, and the resulting torrent of energy annihilated her.
• Thor defeated Zombie Gilgamesh and Ikaris; Ikaris briefly regained his sanity and said that someone was calling to him.
• Miles detected a remnant of Wanda's consciousness trying to escape to the Dream World, but an overwhelming presence froze his thoughts and actions.
• Arishem the Judge emerged above Earth and told its inhabitants that the planet would be destroyed and a new world born from its remains.

Thor and the heroes learned that Arishem intended Earth’s destruction to birth Tiamut, while Madeleine’s other self intervened in the battle against the zombie threat. Zombie Wanda took control of Thanos and tried to claim Vision’s Mind Stone, but Madeleine appeared with the stone in hand.

• Arishem explained to Thor, Miles, and the others that Earth was meant to nourish Tiamut, and Thor declared war on him.
• Madeleine’s other self protected Miles from Doctor Strange’s attack, then killed Zombie Druid when he invaded Bucky’s mind.
• Spider-Man, Bucky, Black Panther, and Hope fought the Zombie Eternals as Zombie Thanos and the Black Order arrived; Zombie Thanos added the Time Stone to his gauntlet.
• Wanda arrived and confronted Zombie Thanos, who revealed that Zombie Wanda had taken over his body and used the Space Stone to summon Vision.
• Zombie Wanda began pulling the Mind Stone from Vision, but Madeleine struck with the Phoenix Force and seized the stone before her.

Madeleine’s arrival turned the battle against Zombie Wanda, while Main Universe Wanda used the Mind Stone to free Doctor Strange and Thena and confront her alternate self. Zombie Wanda lifted the world blockade, but just before disappearing, she saw a terrifying threat in the Zombie World and lunged toward Main Universe Wanda for one last favor.

• Madeleine took the Mind Stone, repelled the Black Order with her telepathy and telekinesis, and joined forces with Main Universe Wanda against Zombie Wanda.
• The Mind Stone merged into Main Universe Wanda, letting her free Zombie Doctor Strange and Zombie Thena from their conditions.
• Main Universe Wanda reached Zombie Wanda’s mind, and Zombie Wanda lifted the blockade between the Dream World and the Zombie World.
• The heroes defeated the remaining enemies, Madeleine’s borrowed consciousness departed, and Bucky and Hope discussed the infected Eternals and the Dawnlight cure.
• As Zombie Wanda’s projection faded, she saw a horrifying scene in the Zombie World and lunged at Main Universe Wanda to ask for one last favor.

Miles reunited with Madeleine in his mental world and fused their consciousnesses to unleash the Phoenix Force against Arishem. Their phoenix form admitted it could not defeat the Celestial alone and asked Infinite Hulk and Master Lintra to help summon the true Phoenix Force, flying toward the energy pillar left by the shattered Infinity Stones.

• Thor hurled Gungnir at Arishem, but its law reversed and the spear struck Thor instead, leaving him near death.
• Arishem said he was waiting for Wanda Maximoff to return and fuse the worlds, while Miles and the surviving heroes realized they could only wait.
• Madeleine contacted Miles mentally, revealed that she had developed a personality shaped by imitating him, and reunited with him in his mental world.
• Miles and Madeleine joined their psychic powers, awakened the Phoenix Force, and manifested as a giant golden-red phoenix above Wakanda.
• The fused pair told Master Lintra and Infinite Hulk they needed help summoning the true Phoenix Force, then flew toward the energy pillar left by the shattered Infinity Stones.

Miles, Madeleine, Infinite Hulk, and the Kamar-Taj sorcerers attempted to summon the Phoenix Force to stop Celestial Arishem from destroying Earth. With the Scarlet Witch’s help, the Phoenix descended, and Arishem withdrew after declaring Earth qualified to survive.

• Dr. Banner gave Miles and Hulk all of his energy, and Infinite Hulk poured the power of the shattered Infinity Stones into the Phoenix phantom.
• Miles asked Master Lintra, Master Drumm, and Sara to help construct the Phoenix Summoning ritual as Infinite Hulk stabilized the collapsing energy pillar.
• Miles pushed the ritual to its limits, and the Scarlet Witch reappeared and used Chaos Magic to help complete it.
• Arishem struck the energy pillar and Phoenix phantom, but the Phoenix Force emerged as a colossal white Phoenix and faced him.
• After communicating with the Phoenix, Arishem abandoned Earth and declared that humanity had proven its courage and will.

After the Phoenix Force helped Miles and the heroes defeat Arishem, the survivors celebrated while Miles discovered that Madeleine was bound by a secret tied to Hell. Madeleine transformed into the Goblin Queen and returned through a Gate of Hell, while Miles prepared to return to reality and confront the Shadow King before seeking clues to her whereabouts.

• The Phoenix Force returned to Earth, and Wanda told Miles that the Dream World crisis had ended and Dr. Pym could use Dawnlight to cure the virus.
• Miles reunited with the surviving heroes, introduced Madeleine as his girlfriend, and learned that Bruce Banner and Hulk had also survived.
• Miles caught Madeleine leaving the celebration and asked about her troubles in The Void, but his guess about a demonic restriction triggered her pain.
• Madeleine calmed in Miles's embrace, then transformed into the Goblin Queen, opened the Gates of Hell, and vanished into the Hell Dimension.
• Miles spoke with Wanda about leaving the world and told her he planned to confront the Shadow King, then seek Doctor Doom's help finding Madeleine.

Miles returned from the Zombie Universe after twenty-seven days, reunited with Wanda and Quicksilver, and learned that Arishem was behind the Ancient One’s unusual reaction. Back at Essex Biotech Group, he began upgrading the Goddess of Dawn project and preparing new research, then learned that Bruce Banner had arrived to remind him of his promise to counsel Hulk.

• Miles regained control of his strengthened psychic power, and Wanda and Quicksilver returned from the Dream World with him.
• Wanda said she wanted revenge on the Shadow King for the psychic suggestion he had left in her, while she and Quicksilver planned to return to Sokovia.
• The Ancient One confirmed that Miles had correctly guessed Arishem’s involvement and offered to explain more if he became the next Sorcerer Supreme, but Miles refused.
• Miles returned to Essex Biotech Group, where Esme Frost had kept the company running during his absence, and ordered his desk moved into the laboratory.
• Miles reviewed the Goddess of Dawn project’s gene-fusion problems and began supplying new research plans based on Eternals technology, while arranging to pursue Vibranium and an upgraded Arc Reactor.
• Aurora told Miles that Bruce Banner had come to see him, reminding him that he had promised to counsel Hulk.