Chapter Summaries

Gen Ohtori explained the Black Order and other major forces in the universe, while S.H.I.E.L.D. failed to locate Shendu or Freddy and struggled to rebuild its fighting force. The chapter ended as alarms revealed dozens of attack locations across New York.

• Gen Ohtori described Thanos's Black Order and named several other intergalactic forces, but declined to interfere in Earth's internal affairs.
• Nick Fury stationed a Helicarrier over the ocean and reflected on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s failures to find the Tesseract, Shendu, or Freddy.
• Hill reported that S.H.I.E.L.D. had found no trace of Shendu or Freddy despite its searches and traps.
• Banner and Zhang Fei learned they might be S.H.I.E.L.D.'s only available fighters and considered fleeing.
• An alarm signaled a new emergency in New York, where Hill and Nick Fury saw dozens of marked locations across the city.

Shendu opened the teleportation points across New York and unleashed a vast army of grotesque, reproducing monsters alongside the Chitauri. After seeing the invasion on surveillance, Tony warned Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D., which resolved to keep the creatures from breaking through the city's containment lines.

• Shendu raised his scepter and opened the teleportation points across New York, summoning his armies.
• Tony asked JARVIS to show surveillance footage after satellites over New York went dark.
• Tony, Tien Shinhan, and Krillin watched Chitauri and grotesque monsters pour from the portals, including one that swallowed a dog and laid eggs.
• Tony feared the invaders could reproduce and contaminate Blue Star, then went to his laboratory and sent the details to Nick Fury.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. concluded that the monsters must not break through the containment lines around New York's streets.

As Shendu fought Frank’s ambush team in Hell’s Kitchen, Old Man attacked him with the Ox and Pig Talismans. Tony activated his Zanpakutō-powered Anti-Threat Armor System, while Jiang Xiang located Thanos on Flashor Planet and slipped near his camp.

• Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. combat units to stop the monsters from spreading.
• Frank led Banner, Zhang Fei, and other fighters in a sneak attack on Shendu, who countered with Electric Eyes and a Dragon Blast that started collapsing the building.
• Old Man climbed onto Shendu’s back and grabbed him while holding the Ox Talisman and Pig Talisman.
• Tony used his Zanpakutō to power up his prototype armor and activate the Anti-Threat Armor System.
• Jiang Xiang tracked Thanos to Flashor Planet and approached his camp while Thanos rested.

Tony deployed his giant mechanical defense walls and artillery to bombard the invading aliens, while the battle continued to strain Earth’s defenses. Frank reported that Old Man had recovered the Mind Scepter and closed the main Teleportation Passage, but one purplish-red passage remained open as humanity began its cleanup.

• Tony activated his Vulcan Fire God Attack Unit and Vulcan Forged Defense Unit, deploying mechanical walls that converged on New York.
• After confirming the target area had been evacuated, Tony ordered a saturation bombardment that destroyed most of the alien forces in its first rounds.
• The alien waves continued pouring through the Teleportation Passage, and Tony’s overheated gun barrels left the defenses struggling to hold them back.
• Frank told S.H.I.E.L.D. that Old Man had recovered the Mind Scepter and successfully closed the Teleportation Passage.
• The passage closed completely, and humanity began clearing the remaining aliens, unaware that a purplish-red passage was still open.

Freddy and Jason seized the Mind Scepter and used two engraved stones to summon the legendary Groudon and Kyogre above the United States. Krillin revealed that the native gods had been drawn into Blue Star, where their customary battle could now threaten the world.

• Freddy and Jason ambushed Old Man, took the Mind Scepter, and disrupted his attempt to activate a Bagua Formation.
• Frank, Hulk, and the others arrived, but Freddy used the Mind Scepter to influence Hulk and turn him against the group.
• Freddy and Jason opened boxes containing engraved stones that began emitting beams of light.
• Groudon and Kyogre appeared as enormous figures over the West Coast and the outskirts of New York.
• Krillin identified Groudon and Kyogre as Blue Star’s native gods and said they had been drawn into the world instead of fighting in dimensional spaces.

Tony and Tien Shinhan realized the Wilder Sect was using the chaos around Groudon and Kyogre to divert attention while establishing a city in the United States, which lacked supernatural powers to protect it. Meanwhile, future versions of Tony Stark and his companions arrived in a different world, as the battle drove West Coast temperatures toward lethal extremes.

• Tien Shinhan explained that the Wilder Sect was likely drawing attention away from its plan to build a city of the Uncanny in the United States.
• Tony realized the United States had no supernatural power backing it, leaving it vulnerable to Superhumans seeking territory.
• Groudon and Kyogre’s battle caused extreme heat around Groudon and rapidly falling temperatures over the West Coast.
• Future Tony Stark, Captain America, Doc Green, and Scott arrived in a different world and learned that the date was November 2009.
• Tony reported that JARVIS estimated temperatures at the center of the West Coast had already fallen to minus one hundred degrees Celsius and were still dropping.

Kyogre’s Primal Reversion unleashed heavy rain and rising waves along the coast, while Tony and his allies failed to hold back the flooding. Meanwhile, the four visitors from the future realized their mission to find the Infinity Stones was falling apart, and Tony and Captain America were surrounded by Tony’s Daily Necessities Series Squad.

• Tien Shinhan recognized Kyogre’s power over water and rainfall as Kyogre’s Primal Reversion brought torrential rain and rapidly rising seas.
• Tony, Krillin, and Tien Shinhan tried to defend the coast, but Kyogre’s waves overwhelmed Tony’s Vulcan Defense System as S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived aboard the Helicarrier.
• Scott lamented that the altered Battle of New York left the future team unable to locate the Infinity Stones, while Banner reported that the Pym particles no longer enabled time travel.
• Future Captain America assigned Banner to search for Strange, Scott to investigate Stark Tower, and himself and Future Tony to search Stark Industries locations.
• Future Tony told Future Captain America that the Infinity Stones might not exist on Blue Star in this parallel universe, just as the Daily Necessities Series Squad surrounded them and demanded an investigation.

Future Tony and Future Captain America learned about Blue Star’s supernatural factions from Tony, while Doc Green Banner searched for Strange and found that the New York Sanctum had become shops. A new disaster struck New York as Groudon emerged and headed west, while Kyogre approached the shore.

• Tony hosted Future Tony and Future Captain America at Stark Tower and explained that Blue Star had many supernatural factions, including Krillin and Tien Shinhan’s.
• Sorcerer Supreme Magneto encountered Doc Green Banner near the former New York Sanctum and contacted Mordo.
• Mordo told Banner that Strange was not at Kamar-Taj and that the former Sanctum had been rented out as shops.
• An earthquake shook New York, and Groudon emerged from a red circle before heading toward the West Coast and using Precipice Blades to warn off the military.
• Kyogre rose from off the West Coast and began flying toward shore.

Tony brought Future Tony and Future Captain America to Kamar-Taj after learning they wanted to gather the Infinity Stones. There, they met Jiang Xiang, the Sorcerer Supreme, and discovered that Thanos had been killed.

• Future Captain America asked Tony about the Infinity Stones, and Future Tony explained that the team planned to take the Space, Time, and Mind Stones.
• Tony arranged for the group to travel to Kamar-Taj, while Future Captain America warned him that S.H.I.E.L.D. might be controlled by Hydra in their world.
• Tony spoke with Pepper during the flight, then led the group to Kamar-Taj's Outer Palace.
• Jiang Xiang welcomed the group, and Krillin and Tien Shinhan greeted him as the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Jiang Xiang explained that he and his allies had ambushed and killed Thanos, whose enormous head lay beside them.

Tony asked Jiang Xiang how to stop Groudon and Kyogre, and learned that finding the Child of the Sky and summoning Rayquaza was the best solution. Future Tony and Steve then asked to borrow the Infinity Stones, and Jiang Xiang explained their role in the universe before the matter was settled.

• Tony asked how they could stop Groudon and Kyogre, and Jiang Xiang said they needed to find the Child of the Sky and summon Rayquaza.
• Jiang Xiang said the Wilder Sect had already gotten rid of the Space Stone and Mind Stone, then Tony introduced the visitors as parallel-universe versions of himself and Steve.
• Jiang Xiang prepared to send the visitors back, but Future Tony urgently asked to borrow the Infinity Stones.
• Jiang Xiang challenged the visitors’ casual request and explained that the Stones acted as keys to the universe’s trove of rules.
• Jiang Xiang warned that when an Infinity Stone disappeared, powerful beings could more easily steal the power of the rules it governed.

The Future Duo’s missions went badly, while Fat Thor traveled to Asgard with Rocket and reunited with Frigga. Frigga comforted Thor after realizing he came from the future, and Thor began considering staying to protect her from the coming Dark Elf attack.

• Jiang Xiang beheaded Thanos after learning where the Power Stone was and took the stone for himself.
• Barton discovered his Pym particles no longer worked and was stranded after Natasha sacrificed herself to obtain the Soul Stone.
• Fat Thor returned to Asgard with Rocket, who warned him not to draw attention or alter the past.
• Frigga recognized that Thor was from another world and embraced him as he wept at seeing her again.
• Thor went with Frigga to her quarters despite Rocket’s warning, and he grew concerned that the Dark Elves would soon endanger her.
• Loki drank with Heimdall while Odin and Frigga pursued plans to match Thor with Sylvie and Loki with Sif.

Fat Thor and Rocket Raccoon discovered they had arrived in a parallel Asgard, where the Reality Stone was held by Midgard’s Sorcerer Supreme alongside five other Infinity Stones. Odin said they could not borrow them because Infinity Stones function differently across universes.

• Fat Thor told Frigga how he had failed to stop Thanos, while Rocket Raccoon revealed they needed the Reality Stone to save their world.
• Frigga explained that Odin had given the Reality Stone to Midgard’s Sorcerer Supreme, and Loki arrived and mocked Fat Thor before being embraced by him.
• Rocket Raccoon realized they might be in a parallel world, and Odin confirmed that they had arrived in his universe.
• Odin revealed that the Sorcerer Supreme possessed five Infinity Stones and that Fat Thor’s companions had also appeared in this world.
• Odin refused to lend the stones, explaining that Infinity Stones worked differently in different universes.

Odin helped Fat Thor and Rocket Raccoon reach the Soul Stone, where they found Barton alive but learned that Natasha had died to obtain it. Barton tried to take the stone back to his universe, but his Quantum Suit failed, leaving him stranded.

• Odin explained that powerful beings had watched events surrounding Thanos's snap and advised Fat Thor to retrieve the Soul Stone before deciding what to do about the other stones.
• Odin used the Bifrost to take Fat Thor and Rocket Raccoon to the planet where the Soul Stone was meant to be.
• Fat Thor and Rocket Raccoon found Barton, whom Odin revived, and learned that Natasha had sacrificed herself to obtain the Soul Stone.
• Fat Thor told Barton that they were in a parallel universe, and Barton insisted on taking the Soul Stone back to save his family.
• Barton activated his Quantum Suit repeatedly, but it failed to transport him, and he squatted down in defeat.

Vegeta confronted Odin and Fat Thor after Barton and Rocket Raccoon attempted to take the Soul Stone, then left when Odin’s tactics kept him from using his full strength. Back in Asgard, Odin’s use of divine power worsened his declining condition, and he sent Fat Thor to seek answers from the Sorcerer Supreme on Blue Star.

• Vegeta arrived on Planet Vegeta-Vegeta and demanded to know who had tried to take the Soul Stone.
• Odin attacked Vegeta with the Bifrost and the Spear of Power, while Fat Thor joined the fight with lightning.
• Odin used runes and magic to hinder Vegeta, who threatened that the Soul Stone must never leave the universe before departing.
• Odin took Barton and Rocket Raccoon back to Asgard, where several Skyfather Level powerhouses arrived only after he had left.
• Odin began coughing from the strain of using his divine power and told Fat Thor to seek help from the Sorcerer Supreme on Blue Star.

The Second Joint Conference gathered representatives from Blue Star and beyond while the future team stayed under supervision at Tony Stark’s villa. As Coulson sent Tony Stark intelligence about a possible sighting of the Child of the Sky, the conference was about to begin.

• Nick Fury asked Carol why she had returned, and she explained that Sorcerer Supreme Jiang Xiang had killed Thanos.
• Future Tony studied the news at Tony Stark’s villa while Steve brooded, Barton withdrew, and Banner discussed Doc Green’s Hulk fusion with him.
• After Banner left, Rocket Raccoon asked Doc Green when the future team could take the Infinity Stones, but Doc Green said Banner could not help them.
• A runner passed a video master tape to an accomplice, who delivered its information to Coulson at a S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost.
• Unable to reach Nick Fury at the conference, Coulson sent Tony Stark a report about a possible sighting of the Child of the Sky.

The Future Group of Avengers debated how to restore their vanished companions, while Kamar-Taj’s second Joint Conference considered whether to help them and lend them the Infinity Stones. The discussion ended with serious objections and a proposal to imprison the visitors to prevent further travel between worlds.

• Rocket Raccoon urged the Avengers to find another way to recover their companions, and Future Steve and Future Tony raised questions about deaths caused indirectly by Thanos’s snap.
• The Avengers agreed to wait for Kamar-Taj’s decision on whether to help them.
• At the second Joint Conference, Merlin asked what benefits assisting the Future Group would bring, and Future Steve offered knowledge and Faith Orbs.
• Pain presented observations suggesting that briefly isolating the Space Stone might have little effect on the universe.
• Merlin and the Six Paths Sage warned that removing the Mind Stone or Soul Stone could cause widespread problems, while others raised risks involving the Darkhold and spacetime.
• The conference considered imprisoning the Future Group to prevent further travel between worlds, alarming the Avengers.

Sorcerer Supreme Jiang Xiang challenged Future Tony and the others to consider the personal and universal costs of borrowing the Infinity Stones. After consulting his allies, he presented Future Tony and Future Steve with the choice between preserving their universe as it was or restoring the half of its population lost to Thanos's snap.

• Jiang Xiang asked Future Tony whether he could accept losing his life or family as the price of saving half the population, and Future Tony hesitated.
• Jiang Xiang adjourned the conference and asked the representatives to stay for a separate discussion.
• Thor arrived as Asgard's representative and thanked Jiang Xiang for helping Odin contain more power with dimensional energy.
• Jiang Xiang and the other representatives debated whether helping the neighboring universe would destabilize it further and whether they might claim its useful cosmic rules.
• Jiang Xiang showed Future Tony and Future Steve the possible consequences of restoring the vanished population and asked them to choose between saving those lives and protecting their universe as it was.

Future Tony and Future Steve chose to bring back half of all living beings using the wish-granting Dragon Balls, accepting that they would have to pay a price. Jiang Xiang then announced that the Containment Foundation would return to Blue Star and work with its factions from the shadows.

• Future Tony and Future Steve debated whether to revive everyone who vanished or only their loved ones, then agreed to bring back half of all living beings.
• Sorcerer Supreme Jiang Xiang offered three methods: the Dragon Balls, the Book of Ages, or changing the past himself, and Future Tony and Future Steve chose the Dragon Balls.
• Jiang Xiang left, and Mordo entered to discuss the price of using the Dragon Balls.
• Jiang Xiang returned to the conference and announced that the Containment Foundation would return to Blue Star, operate secretly, and cooperate with the factions to contain anomalies.
• Nick Fury wondered why Jiang Xiang described the Foundation as returning when Ah Xing's organization had appeared in the world long ago.

Nick Fury learned that the Foundation’s 00 Parliament might soon return, then received a report of a growing frozen wasteland in the Mexican desert. A Mechanical Task Force found Arthur, who had been sitting alone on the ice, while the cause of the anomaly remained unclear.

• Dende gave Future Tony the single-use Dragon Balls and sent the Future Group through Sorcerer Supreme Jiang Xiang’s portal.
• Nick Fury visited Ah Xing, who explained that rumors of the Foundation’s return likely referred to its 00 Parliament.
• Nick Fury sent three rapid-response teams to investigate an expanding ice field in the Mexican desert.
• The teams encountered frozen flames and bodies before gunfire killed most of them; the surviving agents discovered that the attacker was not Arthur.
• The Mechanical Task Force arrived, identified Arthur as a key participant in the Code 0145 Event, and asked whether he needed help.
• Arthur rejected the title Child of the Sky and said he was fine while staring at a spot in the sky.

Arthur returned with the Mobile Task Force after surviving the frozen ice field, which the Foundation then destroyed with missiles, causing deaths and a political crisis. At Site 3, No. 55 showed researchers footage of Arthur creating a breeze, leaving them questioning whether he could use magic.

• Arthur agreed to leave the ice field with the Mobile Task Force, and doctors found him in excellent health despite his exposure to the cold.
• The Mobile Task Force withdrew and bombarded the ice field with missiles, killing at least four hundred people and provoking angry calls to Nick Fury.
• The Foundation used its logistics procedures to suppress news of the missile strike while its leaders sought cooperation from the world's nations.
• At Site 3, researchers debated whether Arthur should be classified as an anomaly and whether the Sky God behind him could be summoned.
• No. 55 showed the researchers footage of Arthur reciting something as a breeze moved around him, prompting questions about his ability to use magic.