Chapter Summaries

Russell overwhelmed the X-Men in a sparring match, effortlessly adapting to their powers and defeating their attacks. After surviving Alex’s charged blast with almost no damage, Russell declared that round two was beginning.

• Charles tried to control Russell telepathically as the X-Men launched their coordinated attack, but electric arcs disrupted his link.
• Jean restrained Russell while Hank and Raven struck him, but Russell adapted to Jean’s pressure and broke free.
• Russell overpowered Hank, slammed him into the ground repeatedly, and forced Nightcrawler to retreat after stripping off his clothes.
• Alex unleashed a fully charged beam, but Russell redirected its energy into the ground and emerged from the crater nearly unscathed.
• Russell called the fight a warm-up and announced that the X-Men would face a second round.

The X-Men surrendered after Russell defeated them, and Professor X arrived to meet his younger self, Charles. As they prepared for the coming fight with Apocalypse, the future Professor X asserted his control over the academy and revealed that Russell was repairing Cerebro.

• Charles ended the fight and surrendered after recognizing that the X-Men could not overcome Russell and the others.
• Erik brought Professor X to meet Charles, and Professor X entered Charles's mind, read his memories, and shared fragments of the future.
• Erik mysteriously shaved his head instead of Charles, while Charles asked Professor X for more future memories and was urged to rely on his own strength.
• Charles and Professor X disagreed over how to confront Apocalypse, then joined Erik in planning for a battle they could not yet see how to win decisively.
• Professor X claimed authority over the academy and used telepathy to send Charles to a guest room, while Erik privately enjoyed his friend's predicament.
• Professor X said Russell was in Cerebro's hidden chamber repairing the machine.

Deadpool's X-Force practiced dramatic entrance poses on the rooftop, but his costume choices provoked Logan and Psylocke into attacking him. Russell then encountered Apocalypse and his followers in the academy garden, where Ororo's lightning had no effect on him.

• Deadpool gathered Russell, Logan, and Psylocke to rehearse X-Force's entrance poses while Nina and Laura watched and took photos.
• Deadpool gave Logan and Psylocke the wrong costumes, and both declared they were quitting; after he corrected the mix-up, they still rejected the outfits and attacked him.
• Russell sensed four newcomers in the garden and recognized Apocalypse, Storm Ororo, and Angel, while a lottery identified the fourth man as Cain Marko.
• Russell drew three cards from Apocalypse, including a Character Card for En Sabah Nur, but decided not to use it in this world.
• Apocalypse ordered Ororo to capture Russell alive, but her lightning strikes left Russell unharmed, so he pretended to be overwhelmed at Deadpool's urging.

Russell and his teammates fought Apocalypse’s Horsemen, with Russell defeating Warren by turning Deadpool into a projectile and then suppressing him with gunfire. As Tank charged Russell, he deliberately kept the big mutant occupied so Jean could face Apocalypse after the children were evacuated.

• Ororo and Warren attacked Russell, but their abilities failed to harm him, while Deadpool drew some of Warren’s attacks away from Psylocke and Logan.
• Russell threw Deadpool into Warren’s diving charge, and the two crashed to the ground; Russell then used gunfire to drive Warren back toward Apocalypse.
• Tank caught Warren, beat him severely, and obeyed Apocalypse’s order to capture Russell, while the X-Men evacuated the children.
• Russell joined Psylocke, Logan, and Deadpool against the remaining Horsemen, then charged Tank alone to keep him occupied.
• Tank rammed his shoulder and elbow into the tip of Russell’s Adamantium Blade as Russell prepared for the clash.

Russell fought Red Tank at the academy, using his blades and Magic Power to wear him down while waiting for Jean to unleash the Phoenix Force. After enduring Red Tank’s charge, Russell filled the garden with hidden pits and taunted him from underground.

• Red Tank shrugged off Russell’s Adamantium Blade and blasted him through Professor X’s mansion, but Russell healed his injuries and charged back into the fight.
• Russell targeted Red Tank’s eyes and wounded his face and shoulder, while Red Tank repeatedly charged and knocked him aside.
• For five minutes, Russell and Red Tank traded blows as Russell used continuous slashes and Red Tank rampaged across the field.
• Russell vanished as Red Tank charged, luring him into a sequence of concealed pits and striking his ankle with sword energy.
• Red Tank smashed the ground in frustration, revealing a garden packed with pits, and Russell taunted him from different holes until Red Tank swung at him.

Russell defeated Juggernaut with electricity and headed to the academy garden, where Apocalypse preached to the fallen X-Men and tried to take Charles’s power. Professor X called on Jean to unleash her Phoenix Force as Apocalypse raised Charles.

• Juggernaut copied Russell’s pit tactics, but Russell tricked him into falling into another pit.
• Juggernaut grabbed Russell, who electrocuted him and destroyed him with Lightning Magma, advancing his World Quest to 4/6.
• Apocalypse preached his vision of mutant supremacy to the fallen X-Men, while Erik rejected the idea of joining him.
• Apocalypse tried to manipulate Erik and then targeted Charles after seeing his telepathic power.
• Professor X called for Jean to release her power while Apocalypse held Charles aloft.

Jean awakened the Phoenix Force against Apocalypse, but rejected it and sent it away before it could defeat him. Russell rescued Charles and confronted Apocalypse, who recognized Russell’s wings and accused him of being an Old God.

• Jean unleashed the Phoenix Force, which overwhelmed Apocalypse in a mental realm and left him convinced he had faced God.
• Russell watched from behind a wall as Jean abruptly severed the Phoenix Force and collapsed; the Phoenix left her for another universe.
• Apocalypse survived and mistook Jean’s departure of the Phoenix Force for an acknowledgment of his claim to godhood, then tried to take Charles’s power.
• Russell used lightning wolves to attack Apocalypse and carried Charles back to the X-Men.
• Apocalypse invited Russell to become his knight, but when Russell spread his wings, Apocalypse recognized him as another Old God.

Russell challenged Apocalypse at the X-Mansion, but Apocalypse absorbed his Holy Light and teleported away, leaving Russell unable to claim victory. Apocalypse then doubled back and abducted Charles, while Deadpool mocked Russell’s claim that he could fight Apocalypse fifty-fifty.

• Russell argued with Apocalypse about what made someone a god, then attacked him with the Holy Light Longsword.
• Apocalypse absorbed the sword’s energy and teleported away alone after Storm Ororo refused to leave with him.
• Russell dug Deadpool and Logan out of the ground and learned that Apocalypse had buried them during X-Force’s confrontation.
• Deadpool questioned Russell’s claim that he could fight Apocalypse fifty-fifty, and Russell insisted the setback had been an accident.
• Apocalypse returned through a spatial fluctuation and abducted Charles, prompting Russell to shoot Deadpool for mocking him.

Apocalypse seized Charles and threatened the world, triggering nuclear launches and chaos before publicly challenging Russell. Raven assembled a team to rescue Charles in Cairo, where Professor X stayed behind to help stop Apocalypse and preserve Charles’s hair.

• Apocalypse used Charles’s powers to address the world, announce his return in Cairo, and provoke nuclear powers into launching missiles.
• Russell, Deadpool, and the X-Men watched Apocalypse transform Cairo’s materials into a gigantic metal pyramid during a worldwide broadcast.
• Apocalypse showed Russell’s portrait and challenged him, while Russell denied that the portrait depicted him.
• Mystique Raven announced that the team would fly to Cairo to rescue Charles, and Russell confirmed the odds were fifty-fifty.
• Raven selected Nightcrawler Wagner, Quicksilver Pietro, Magneto Erik, Deadpool, Logan, and Russell for the mission, while Professor X remained at the Cerebro chamber to help Charles resist Apocalypse and keep his hair.

Apocalypse’s attempt to reincarnate into Charles failed because Charles shared his mind with a mysterious psychic presence, and Apocalypse prepared to defeat Russell before a global audience. Russell arrived in Cairo, sent his allies to rescue Charles, and revealed a colossal, radiant form after his craft exploded against Apocalypse’s force field.

• Apocalypse failed twice to invade Charles’s mind and discovered that a powerful, indistinguishable psychic energy within it kept splitting his consciousness between two targets.
• Apocalypse arranged a global broadcast so he could publicly defeat Russell and proclaim himself the one true god, then left three new Horsemen to guard Charles.
• Russell’s group flew toward Cairo through international military blockades, and Russell told Mystique Raven to have Nightcrawler take the others into the pyramid while he fought Apocalypse alone.
• As Apocalypse grew into a giant above Cairo, Nightcrawler teleported the others away, leaving Russell alone in the flying craft.
• Russell rammed the craft into Apocalypse’s force field, then emerged from the explosion with enormous Wings of Light as viewers around the world recognized him as the Old God.

Russell used Apocalypse’s Character Card to transform into a gigantic, radiant angel and fight Apocalypse in Cairo, where he overwhelmed the false god with copied abilities, weapons, and a railgun attack. The battle left Apocalypse gravely wounded as viewers around the world watched in shock.

• Russell activated Apocalypse’s Character Card, grew enormous, and used an Illumination Spell to make a dramatic entrance before the world.
• Russell accused Apocalypse of being a false god and formed a giant sword from sand, then broke through Apocalypse’s energy barrier and wounded him with a slash and kick.
• Apocalypse realized Russell was using his abilities, healed his wounds, and fought Russell in close combat with an Egyptian sickle sword.
• Russell concealed a Desert Eagle during their clash and repeatedly shot Apocalypse, leaving him riddled with holes.
• Russell turned the gun into a metal block and fired a railgun blast that destroyed Apocalypse’s barrier and blew apart half his body, horrifying viewers and believers.

Russell repeatedly battered Apocalypse to wear down his regeneration, while the X-Men found Charles inside the pyramid and fought three of Apocalypse’s Horsemen. Russell warned Nightcrawler to evacuate everyone because he was about to unleash his ultimate move.

• Russell repeatedly killed and dismembered Apocalypse, then fought him in a high-speed exchange of blows and gunfire.
• Nightcrawler teleported the group into the pyramid, where Pietro found Charles, but an invisible Horseman grabbed and knocked Pietro unconscious.
• Sabretooth and a teleporting Horseman attacked Raven’s group, and Logan and Deadpool fought Sabretooth while the others tried to reach Charles.
• Nightcrawler told Russell that Charles was found and three Horsemen were fighting them, and Russell ordered the group to run farther before he unleashed his ultimate move.

Russell defeated Apocalypse and activated Gate of Heaven before a watching world, while Nightcrawler rescued Charles and the others from the collapsing pyramid. The chapter ended as the heavenly gate opened above Russell and scattered feathers of holy light.

• Nightcrawler tried to stop the X-Men from fighting and warned them that Russell would destroy the pyramid, but Logan, Sabretooth, and Deadpool continued brawling.
• Erik killed the first Horseman, but Apocalypse's teleporting female Horseman took Charles, prompting Nightcrawler to chase her.
• Russell drained Apocalypse's energy, killed him with a punch, and blasted a hole through the pyramid, then gave Nightcrawler ten seconds to escape.
• Nightcrawler recovered Charles and evacuated Raven, Pietro, Logan, and the others before collapsing on the Cairo TV station rooftop, where Deadpool addressed reporters.
• Russell shot and pinned the regenerating Apocalypse with sand spears, then used the Gate of Heaven skill as viewers around the world watched.
• Russell opened a golden rift in the sky, and the gates of heaven opened, scattering feathers made of holy light.

Russell used the Gate of Heaven to eliminate Apocalypse and learned that the attack had also killed Sabretooth, completing his quest sooner than expected. With 24 hours left before leaving the world, he rushed through a door with Deadpool to seek the Phoenix Force, leaving the mutants a message urging humans and mutants to coexist.

• Russell's Gate of Heaven dragged Apocalypse and his pyramid into another dimension, while the system counted Sabretooth among the villains killed by the attack.
• Russell argued with the system over the quest count, then resolved to use his remaining 24 hours to search for the Phoenix Force.
• Deadpool tried to dominate a television interview by praising himself as a superhero until Russell kicked him and ordered him to open a door to another world.
• Russell and Deadpool entered the new world, and Russell told the reporters that Earth belonged to humans and mutants, who should get along.
• Logan accepted their departure, and Professor X thanked Russell from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

Russell and Deadpool arrived at Mutant Academy in the aftermath of Professor X’s apparent death and tried to convince Hank and Ororo that Charles was alive and Jean could be stopped. Just as Ororo began to believe their claims about the future, Logan arrived after finding Jean and Magneto.

• Russell and Deadpool emerged from a wardrobe in Professor X’s office, and Russell identified their world as X-Men: The Last Stand.
• Hank and Ororo confronted the intruders, but Russell claimed Charles was still alive and showed photos proving he and Ororo knew each other in another world.
• Russell told Hank and Ororo that they had come to help defeat Jean and described a future in which the X-Men would survive and Logan would become a teacher.
• Logan kicked in the school’s front door and called for Ororo, saying he had found Jean and Magneto.

Logan and the X-Men joined Russell and Deadpool to stop Magneto's mutant army from destroying the Mutant Cure facility on Demon Island. As the battle began, Russell effortlessly subdued Magneto's speedy subordinate and warned her and Shockwave to leave.

• Logan told the X-Men that Magneto and Jean were leading an attack on Demon Island, so the team traveled there with Russell and Deadpool.
• The X-Men arrived during the battle, where Deadpool crash-landed and Magneto dismissed the group as reckless fools.
• Ororo and the other X-Men fought Magneto's forces while Deadpool drew a large crowd of attackers and Russell watched for an opportunity to act.
• A dark-skinned mutant with Radar and high-speed movement attacked Russell, but he caught her by the throat and easily subdued her.
• Russell released the mutant and warned her and Shockwave to leave rather than make him break his rule against hitting women.

Russell fought Magneto and used his water-element powers to summon a colossal giant that caught and flung away the Golden Gate Bridge. After encountering Jean, he triggered a lottery draw and received a Phoenix Force Skill Card instead of the Dark Phoenix Character Card he wanted.

• Russell defeated the dark-skinned mutant and Shockwave with electric shocks.
• Magneto ordered Tank to enter the research facility, where Shadowcat outsmarted him and rescued the bald Little Boy.
• Magneto formed a burning sphere of cars around Russell, but Russell survived by shielding himself with water.
• Magneto lifted the Golden Gate Bridge and swung it at Russell, who summoned a giant made of water to catch it and throw it away.
• Magneto asked Jean to release her power for mutant freedom, and Russell triggered a lottery draw after encountering her.
• Russell drew the Phoenix Force Skill Card instead of the Dark Phoenix Character Card he had hoped for.

Russell split Magneto and Jean apart, subdued Magneto, and left Logan to reach Jean while her remaining rationality restrained the Phoenix Force. He then dragged Deadpool through a portal into the world of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, where they landed inside a bank vault as an alarm sounded and gas filled the room.

• Russell asked Logan to hold Jean back while he dealt with Magneto, and Logan resolved to free Jean from her suffering.
• Russell separated Jean and Magneto with a tsunami, then chased Magneto through the waves with water wolves.
• Russell injected Magneto with Mutant Cure serum, secretly told him his powers would return, and threatened to take compromising photos of him.
• Russell found Logan approaching Jean while her remaining rationality kept the Phoenix Force from killing him, then told the X-Men he had let Magneto go.
• Russell pulled Deadpool into the world of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and they emerged in a bank vault where the door locked and white gas began filling the room.

Russell and Deadpool fled a bank robbery, then traveled through several worlds without triggering a lottery before Russell returned to his own world to claim his rewards. After raising his Body and Intelligence to 100, Russell received a system prompt, but the chapter ended before revealing what talent he had awakened.

• Russell and Deadpool fought in a bank vault, escaped the SWAT officers, and left the bank with the stolen money still in their possession.
• Russell and Deadpool spotted Charles and Erik playing chess, then traveled through three more worlds in search of a lottery draw, encountering Jean once without success.
• Russell booked an entire nightclub for Deadpool before returning to his own world as the twenty-four-hour countdown ended.
• Russell drew five rewards, including an Intelligence Attribute Point, Photosynthesis, Healing Factor, a Green Goblin Suit, and Hundred Thousand Volts.
• Russell raised his Body to 100 without an apparent change, then raised his Intelligence to 100 and received a system prompt.

Russell gained Telepathy after raising his intelligence above one hundred, then returned to the Dark Dimension and unleashed the Phoenix Force against Dormammu. Dormammu answered by summoning rune-carved chains to bind Russell’s Phoenix Phantom.

• The system replaced Russell’s Sixth Sense with Telepathy, and he distributed his remaining attribute points evenly among Strength, Constitution, and Intelligence.
• Russell decided to return to the Marvel Universe despite Dormammu blocking his way, while Dormammu speculated that the Sorcerer Supreme had sent Russell as part of a scheme.
• Russell appeared in the Dark Dimension and offered to help Dormammu trick the Sorcerer Supreme, but Dormammu attacked to test his strength.
• Russell used the Phoenix Force Skill Card, manifesting a Phoenix Phantom whose power transformed and shook the Dark Dimension.
• Russell abandoned negotiations and charged at Dormammu, who summoned hundreds of rune-carved black chains to wrap around the Phoenix Phantom.