Chapter Summaries

Optimus Prime spared Megatron after revealing that Unicron was devouring the essence of Cybertronians who died on Earth, and he used Megatron to draw the Decepticons out. Starscream tried to kill Megatron and destroy Hoover Dam, but Lox and the Space Marines intervened, leaving the Decepticons defeated and alive.

• Optimus Prime confronted the mutilated Megatron, heard his defense of the rebellion, and refused to execute him after explaining that Unicron had guided the AllSpark to Earth and fed on Cybertronians who died there.
• Megatron’s Decepticon forces stormed the Sector Seven base, and Optimus Prime disabled Bonecrusher while the Autobots fought the other attackers.
• Starscream pretended to rescue Megatron but repeatedly attacked him, revealing his intention to take leadership of the Decepticons.
• Lox used his spatial-jump ability to save Megatron from Starscream’s blade, and Starscream ordered a retreat and attempted to destroy Hoover Dam.
• The Space Marines stopped Starscream and defeated the Decepticons with magnetic control, rust weapons, and precise attacks, leaving every Decepticon alive but unable to resist.

Lox revealed that the Fallen and Sentinel Prime had plotted to use Cybertron as a sacrifice to Unicron, then exposed the Cybertronians to the gods controlling their universe. Optimus Prime and Megatron set aside their conflict and prepared to rebel against those gods, while Starscream eagerly pledged himself to Lox.

• Optimus Prime and the Primaris Space Marines defeated Megatron’s Decepticons, and Starscream tried to ingratiate himself with Optimus Prime.
• Lox revealed that the Fallen had manipulated Megatron and intended to use the Matrix of Leadership, the AllSpark, and Sentinel Prime’s Space Bridge technology to feed Cybertron to Unicron.
• Lox showed the Autobots that he had captured Sentinel Prime and explained that Sentinel Prime had secretly cooperated with Megatron before disappearing.
• Lox explained that he came from another universe and revealed that gods controlled and harvested parallel universes, leaving the Transformers stunned and enraged.
• Starscream urged the Transformers to entrust the AllSpark and Matrix of Leadership to Lox, while Optimus Prime confronted Megatron about whether he still had the courage to resist oppression.
• Optimus Prime and Megatron put aside their hostility and stood together, marking the Transformers’ uprising against the gods.

Lox helped the Autobots and Decepticons learn the truth about the forces manipulating Cybertron and led them to Petra, where Optimus Prime claimed the Leader Matrix. After taking the Leader Matrix and recovering the Star Harvester from Egypt, Lox left with plans to grow stronger and further disrupt the Celestials’ plans.

• Optimus Prime and Megatron ordered their factions to maintain a temporary truce after Lox revealed the Fallen, Unicron, and the Celestials, and Lox proposed they seek the Leader Module and Stellar Harvester.
• Lox teleported the Autobots, Decepticons, and others from Sector Seven to Jordan, where Optimus Prime entered the Leader Matrix’s trial and returned with the artifact; Megatron failed to take it.
• Optimus Prime confirmed that Lox had told the truth and urged the Cybertronians to unite against the gods manipulating their conflict, then gave Lox the Leader Matrix.
• Lox’s battle barge descended over Egypt and stripped away the pyramid covering the Star Harvester, then carried the ancient machine away as people and world leaders watched.

Reggie Simmons faced reporters as Optimus Prime announced the Transformers’ peaceful arrival, while Lox returned to the X-Men universe and learned that the Celestials had sent a vast war fleet against it. After Pollux’s defenses inflicted heavy losses, Ajak identified the attackers as the elite Celestial Blade Legion, and Lox prepared humanity for war.

• Reggie Simmons struggled to answer reporters’ questions about Sector Seven until Optimus Prime interrupted the press conference with a live broadcast seeking equal diplomatic relations for the Transformers.
• Lox transferred the AllSpark Cube and other spoils to the Ultramar Watcher and left the Transformers universe with Jazz, who explained that Unicron’s mark remained inside the Cube.
• Pollux warned Lox that the Celestials’ second war legion had arrived in the X-Men universe, and Lox returned to the Solar System with his fleet and Trazyn.
• Pollux explained that hidden antimatter void torpedoes had destroyed the first Celestial warships to enter the Solar System, while Imperial ships were outperforming the enemy in battle.
• Ajak identified the invading force as Surveyor Oneg’s elite Celestial Blade Legion and warned that its warriors were far stronger than ordinary Eternals.
• Lox ordered forces recalled from other universes and declared that humanity would fight the Celestials rather than seek peace through compromise.

Lox learned that the Blade of the Celestials used captured auxiliary forces as expendable probes before launching its main assault. As Cassandra Nova Xavier commanded the legion toward Universe 1661, Mr. Sinister began breeding infiltrating bioweapons to weaken the Imperium of Man.

• Ajak explained to Lox that the Blade of the Celestials forced captured enemy forces to fight first, using them to learn opponents’ tactics before committing its main strength.
• The Blade of the Celestials arrived beyond the Kuiper Belt with a neutron war star, and Cassandra Nova Xavier declared that Ajak and her team were likely dead.
• Cassandra subdued Mr. Sinister when he questioned her judgment, then approved his plan to create bioweapons and attack the enemy’s rear lines.
• Mr. Sinister returned to his flesh-planet lair and used Deviant, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Eternal genetic material to create a hybrid bioweapon suited for infiltration.
• Mr. Sinister continued refining the new creature and producing more bioweapons for deployment in human territory.

Pollux’s forces defended Pluto as the Blade of the Gods Legion launched a full-scale assault, while Lox ordered a nanite swarm to exploit the enemy flagship’s energy shield. The swarm weakened the shield, allowing Crimson Fist to strike the flagship as the battle raged on.

• Pollux and Cyril discussed the enemy’s possible neutron-star weapon and detected a powerful gravitational fluctuation beyond the Solar System.
• The Blade of the Gods Legion committed more than a thousand warships to an assault on Pluto’s defenses.
• Pollux ordered Crimson Fist to evade Final Judgment’s main cannon while orbital platforms and ground weapons attacked the enemy fleet.
• Lox ordered Pluto’s macrocannons to launch nanite swarms that absorbed and rapidly consumed Final Judgment’s energy shield.
• Pollux ordered Crimson Fist to fire on Final Judgment after the swarm collapsed its shield, causing severe damage to the enemy flagship.

The Solar Fleet repelled the Blade of the Celestials with Lox’s nano swarm, but the enemy’s hidden Shadow Hunters devastated Los Angeles and captured Scott’s team. Lox and Charles recognized that the bioweapons threatened humanity’s rear and began planning a response.

• Lox’s nano swarm infected Celestial warships and warriors, forcing elderly Magneto to cut away contaminated sections of the flagship.
• Pollux withdrew the Solar Fleet to Pluto for repairs as the expanding swarm salvaged enemy wreckage and bodies.
• Lox and Charles discussed the battle at the X Academy, then answered Scott’s distress call from Los Angeles.
• Lox reviewed the attack and discovered that Shadow Hunters had killed thousands and captured Scott and other X-Men.
• Charles could not control the Shadow Hunters because a stronger psychic presence directed them, while Lox identified their phasing ability and planned to mobilize Sentinel Iron Men.

As Earth’s civilians fled the Shadow Hunters, Emperor’s Creed priests helped evacuate them while Hunter’s family traveled toward Detroit Base City. In Los Angeles, Janus disrupted Cassandra’s control of the Shadow Hunters, allowing Sharrowkyn and his forces to begin exterminating them.

• Hunter’s family left their hometown for Detroit Base City while their elderly neighbor chose to stay behind.
• An Emperor’s Creed priest gave Hunter’s family food and water and encouraged the civilians to remain united.
• Thunderhawks and Overlord Assault Gunships deployed Sharrowkyn, Janus, Primaris Astartes, and Sentinel Iron Men to Los Angeles.
• Janus used his psychic power to disrupt Cassandra’s control over the Shadow Hunters.
• The Shadow Hunters lost their restraint and attacked the city as Sharrowkyn’s Astartes and the Sentinel Iron Men hunted them.

Barabas Dantioch and the X-Men fought the Shadow Hunters in Los Angeles, then destroyed their fused flesh mountain with a targeted virus bomb. The city was left in ruins, Scott and the captured X-Men survived, and Barabas suspected they had been tampered with.

• Janus severed the Shadow Hunters’ psychic control, and Barabas Dantioch tested their abilities while the Space Marines and gunships battled them across Los Angeles.
• Storm froze the battlefield as the Sentinel Iron Men copied the Shadow Hunters’ phasing ability, while Barabas used a gravity generator to tear apart their teleporting enemies.
• The surviving Shadow Hunters merged into a massive flesh creature that absorbed atmospheric elements, so Barabas withdrew his forces and ordered the virus bomb deployed from orbit.
• The virus bomb infected and dissolved the flesh mountain, and Janus taunted Cassandra, who ended their psychic connection and turned her anger toward Mr. Sinister.
• Barabas returned with his battle-brothers to search the ruins, where the Sentinel Iron Men rescued Scott and the other captured X-Men; Barabas suspected their captors had tampered with them.

After the Los Angeles massacre, humanity rallied against the Celestial Blade Legion as civilians fled to fortified refuge cities and enlisted in the PDF. Little Hunt joined the fight after confronting defeatists, while Charles and Erik prepared to support Lox’s planned decisive battle.

• Lox ordered Barabas Dantioch and the Primaris Space Marines to search and purge Earth while humanity strengthened its defenses and evacuated civilians to refuge base cities.
• At the Detroit base city, Little Hunt beat two men who mocked the front-line soldiers and called for Lox’s death, and the PDF captain offered to waive his punishment if he enlisted.
• Little Hunt accepted the PDF appointment despite his family’s fears, deciding that protecting humanity required him to step forward.
• Mutants from Xavier’s School left to enlist in the PDF despite Charles’s concerns, and Erik challenged Charles to respect their choice.
• Erik told Charles that Lox planned a decisive battle against the Blade of the Gods and pledged to join him.

Lox ordered the Solar Fleet to launch a decisive counterattack against Cassandra’s Blade of the Celestials, and the two forces clashed in a brutal space battle. As human ships gained the upper hand and began boarding enemy vessels, Cassandra prepared to use her hidden neutron battle star.

• Hill reported that Corswain’s First Fleet had explored a universe of giant beasts and Sevatar’s Second Fleet had encountered the Shinra Civilization; both fleets returned to the 1661 X-Men Universe a month later.
• Lox ordered Pollux to gather the Solar Fleet at Pluto and prepare to defeat the Blade of the Celestials, whose fleet outnumbered the humans and concealed a neutron battle star.
• Cassandra gathered the Blade of the Celestials fleet and faced the Solar Fleet across the Kuiper Belt as Lox, Pollux, Aenid Hill, and the X-Men prepared for battle.
• Lox rallied humanity, and both fleets opened fire; his power strengthened the human warships as they fought through devastating losses and turned the battle in their favor.
• Barabas Dantioch, Hal, Qin Xin, Wolverine Logan, and other leaders launched boarding assaults with Primaris Space Marines and Sentinel Iron Men, crippling enemy ships as Cassandra decided to use her last trump card.

The Iron Men Legion and Primaris Astartes boarded the Blade of the Celestials’ warships, where Sentinel Iron Men overwhelmed the mutants and Eternals defending them. Aenid Hill’s force reached the End Judgment’s reactor and destroyed it with planted bombs, leaving the flagship crippled amid a massive explosion.

• Sentinel Iron Men countered the Blade of the Celestials’ mutants and Eternals with adaptive abilities, killing Firegirl, Fluid, and many other defenders while collecting genetic samples.
• Lox monitored the fleet’s assault as boarding torpedoes breached the End Judgment’s shields and armor, allowing Iron Men and Astartes to enter the flagship.
• Aenid Hill divided the boarding force, sending Endred Hall to attack the enemy aboard the ship while Qin Xin prepared support and Barabas Dantioch pursued Cassandra.
• Hill led his troops through the End Judgment’s defenders to its rear reactor, where they planted antimatter bombs, melta bombs, and nuclear warheads before withdrawing with Qin Xin’s Tengu Mechs.
• The bombs triggered a chain of explosions that ruptured the reactor and the End Judgment’s rear hull, sending the flagship off course as Lox watched the blast.

Lox observed the battle turning against the Celestial Blade after the Final Judgment’s reactor exploded, while boarding forces fought through the crippled ship. Hill and Qin Xin pushed toward Barabas Dantioch’s strike as they faced psychic bio-weapons and encountered Charles Xavier’s X-Men; meanwhile, Hal’s squad breached Mr. Sinister’s defenses and engaged him.

• Lox realized a powerful magnetist had limited the damage to the Final Judgment, while the Solar Fleet overwhelmed the Celestial Blade and its commanders launched suicidal attacks rather than surrender.
• Hill regrouped with Qin Xin and joined the push toward Barabas Dantioch’s decapitation strike as their forces advanced through the ship.
• Qin Xin’s squad destroyed psychic bio-weapons in Sector E-16, and Qin Xin disabled Beihai’s Tengu Mech after Beihai nearly attacked his allies under an illusion.
• Hill verified Charles Xavier’s identity through a Librarian’s psychic examination and allowed the X-Men to follow his forces toward the command center.
• Charles explained that the Celestial Blade’s mutants had been mentally reconstructed into loyal servants of the Celestials, and he led the X-Men onward to fight them.
• Hal’s squad broke through to Mr. Sinister, who unleashed fungal flesh, genetic monsters, and psychic illusions, but Hal rallied his warriors into battle.

Endred Hall’s forces fought Mr. Sinister’s adaptive bio-weapons until the Emperor erased Mr. Sinister through Hall’s memories. Barabas Dantioch’s assassins then attacked Cassandra Nova Xavier; although they killed Psylocke, Cassandra survived and unleashed a psychic storm that destabilized the Warp corridor.

• Endred Hall and the Iron Men fought off Mr. Sinister’s bio-weapons as he created psychic creatures that bypassed their armor and forced them to relive buried memories.
• Mr. Sinister probed Hall’s memories, discovered the Emperor performing Hall’s Thunder Warrior enhancement, and was burned out of existence when the Emperor noticed him.
• Hall broke free of the psychic attack, saw the bio-weapons and mycelial carpet die, and ordered his warriors to kill the remaining xenos.
• Barabas Dantioch and four assassins attacked Cassandra Nova Xavier and Psylocke, but Cassandra repelled their opening strikes while Psylocke wounded one Night Lord.
• Dantioch emerged from the shadows and killed Psylocke, but Cassandra’s Dominator Helmet blocked his strike; he withdrew with the other assassins.
• Cassandra’s psychic scream shook the Final Judgment and tore open a rift between The Empyrean and the material universe, as the unstable Warp corridor began to leak and corrupt the battlefield.

As humanity overwhelmed the Celestial Blades, the souls of Psylocke and other fallen warriors fueled the miniature Astronomican and weakened the curse binding Sanguinius and Curze. Magneto, Professor X, and Janus confronted the Celestial Blades’ leaders, but Cassandra’s defeat triggered a final catastrophe: she sent her soul into the neutron warstar, which charged toward the battlefield.

• Lox drew Psylocke’s soul and other fallen Celestial Blades souls into the miniature Astronomican, weakening the curse on Sanguinius and Curze as their awareness returned.
• Humanity’s Space Marines and Iron Men broke the Celestial Blades’ defenses, while Hill, Qin Xin, Barabas Dantioch, and Endryd Haar pressed the attack.
• The younger Magneto and Professor X confronted the aged Magneto and Cassandra, while Janus sealed the psychic combatants inside a barrier that suppressed enemy Psykers.
• Professor X entered Cassandra’s soul world and, with the sacrificed consciousnesses of other Charleses, shattered her mind; Janus then struck Cassandra with psychic sorcery.
• Cassandra sent her soul into the neutron warstar, which accelerated toward the battlefield and began destroying everything in its path.

Cassandra's attempt to control the neutron battle star instead awakened the Shattered Celestial within it, which devastated both fleets before Lox's antimemetic generator erased it. Lox captured the Shattered Celestial's core to accelerate the cleansing of Sanguinius's and Curze's souls, then left for Mars as Pollux took charge of the victorious fleet.

• Cassandra entered the neutron battle star's control center, where the Shattered Celestial devoured her soul and awakened inside its body, the giant guard.
• The Shattered Celestial rampaged through both fleets, destroying more than a hundred warships, while Professor X seized control of Magneto after Cassandra's death.
• Calthwain and Sevatar returned with their fleets, and four Thundercloud-class warships attacked the neutron battle star until antimatter torpedoes disrupted its dimensional jumps.
• Lox deployed the antimemetic generator from the Crimson Fist, which erased the neutron battle star and began dissolving the Shattered Celestial.
• Lox pulled the Shattered Celestial's core into his hand and fed it to the miniature Astronomican, speeding the purification of Sanguinius's and Curze's souls.
• Lox left for Mars and told Pollux to inform Sevatar and Azkaellon that their wish would soon come true; Pollux began directing the battlefield cleanup.

Lox used the Shattered God's Warp essence and the faith of their sons to break Horus's curse and resurrect Sanguinius and Konrad Curze on Mars. The two primarchs reunited with their sons, while Lox promised to test the AllSpark on Trazyn.

• Lox began the resurrection ritual, using psychic fire to burn away Horus's curse and the lingering shadows of the Heresy.
• Sevatar, Azkaellon, and thousands of Astartes prayed outside the chamber, and the Blood Angels and Night Lords offered their blood to strengthen their gene-fathers.
• Sanguinius awakened first, and Lox shut down the stasis field as the Great Angel rose with his wounds still severe.
• Konrad Curze overcame Nostramo's visions and fate's influence, then emerged from the ritual with immense psychic power.
• Sevatar and Azkaellon entered and embraced their resurrected fathers, while Sanguinius and Curze reunited with their sons.
• Trazyn asked Lox about reviving his people, and Lox said he would begin testing the AllSpark on Trazyn himself.

After humanity’s victory over the Celestials, Lox used the AllSpark to restore Trazyn’s soul and give him a new Cybertronian-Necron body. Trazyn awoke reborn, pledged to stand with Lox, and agreed to attend Earth’s Victory Day celebration.

• Lox turned the wreckage of the Judgment of Doom into a monument proclaiming that humanity’s light endured, while human fleets began expanding beyond the Solar System.
• Lox told Trazyn he hoped to develop stable travel between independent universes and might relocate humanity from the ruined Warhammer universe.
• Lox, Trazyn, Jazz, Cawl, Angie, and Hank gathered in the Mars laboratory to use the AllSpark on Trazyn.
• The AllSpark revived Trazyn’s memories of his Necrontyr childhood, forced biotransference, and the C’tan’s betrayal, while the scientists observed his visions.
• The AllSpark transformed Trazyn and restored a new soul, leaving him with 63% soul integrity and a new body combining Necron and Cybertronian traits.
• Trazyn accepted his new identity, pledged to stand with Lox even if their peoples became enemies, and agreed to attend the Victory Day celebration.

On Earth’s Victory Day, Lox and Trazyn witnessed humans and mutants celebrating together, while Lox explained that he planned to return to the Warhammer universe and help save his homeland. Sanguinius accepted command of the Human Expeditionary Force as Lox prepared for that journey, though the Emperor’s Compass still needed time to recover.

• Lox and Trazyn walked among the Victory Day crowds, where mutants celebrated alongside humans and Trazyn experienced the festival’s joy through his newly restored soul.
• Hunter Kurand bought rainbow cotton candy for nearby children, while Charles told Lox that a mutant girl performing on the street had once been attacked for her appearance.
• The crowd honored fallen soldiers and welcomed Hill and the Space Marines in a parade, as Lox and Trazyn discussed the Celestials, Chaos, and humanity’s future.
• Lox told Trazyn he intended to return to the Warhammer universe once the Emperor’s Compass recovered, and said Sanguinius and Curze would lead the expeditionary forces in his absence.
• Sanguinius descended before the crowd, honored the dead, and inspired humanity with a speech, while Curze complained that he was being overlooked.
• After Sanguinius rejoined Lox and Curze, he accepted the expeditionary command and asked Lox to send his regards to the Emperor and their brothers.

Lox returned to the Warhammer universe with Trazyn and a ship carrying advanced technologies, finding that more than a century had passed. After Trazyn invited him to Solemnace, their arrival was met by Necron warships that attacked them and denounced Trazyn as a thief and invader.

• Lox ordered Hill, Calthwain, Azkaellon, and the other Legion warriors to resume conquering universes and spread faith in the Emperor while he prepared to return to the Warhammer universe.
• After five years, Lox boarded the Red Alert with Trazyn and several Stone Men, carrying technologies including a Space Bridge, Primaris upgrades, and Sentinel Iron Men manufacturing data.
• During the journey through the Warp, Trazyn recounted the Old Ones' downfall, and Lox studied the AllSpark and reflected on the Warhammer universe's decay.
• Lox and Trazyn emerged in the Ghoul Stars and learned that the current date was 114.M31, more than a hundred years after Lox had left.
• Trazyn persuaded Lox to visit Solemnace before traveling to Terra, and they entered the hidden pocket dimension containing his tomb world.
• Dozens of Necron raiders attacked the Red Alert, while Necron warriors called Trazyn a thief, liar, robber, and invader.