Recaps

Brad and Richard encountered a bank robbery, but Richard’s intensified anger led him to destroy the getaway van and kill its driver. The police arrested Richard while Tony took Brad with him, leaving Richard facing the consequences of his actions.

• Richard and Brad ate breakfast while discussing Richard’s romantic ambitions and the Nova Corps.
• Masked robbers attacked a bank, and Richard transformed into Nova while Brad stayed outside with their food.
• When the robbers ignored him, Richard’s anger intensified and he blasted apart their van, killing the driver.
• Brad rushed into the bank, subdued the robbers, and helped secure the hostages.
• Tony arrived, watched the footage, and let the police take Richard away with the robbers.
• Tony learned that Brad had powers and took him along, while explaining that Richard should not have killed anyone.

Brad convinced Mar-Vell that he came from a minor civilization under the Kree Empire, easing Mar-Vell’s fears about an invasion. After discovering Mar-Vell had terminal cancer, Brad’s hive mind considered using Wade for research and woke him from cryosleep, where Wade appeared able to communicate with the hive.

• Tony brought Brad to Avengers Tower so Mar-Vell could investigate Brad’s origins, and Mar-Vell admitted he could not identify the ship’s technology.
• Brad asked Brad X for records on an obscure Kree-conquered civilization and used them to fabricate a convincing identity for Mar-Vell.
• Mar-Vell questioned Brad, accepted his cover story, and relaxed about the possibility of an imminent interstellar invasion.
• Brad detected early-stage cancer in Mar-Vell and discussed speeding up research on the Eye Demon Flesh with the other Brads.
• The Brads chose Wade as a potential researcher and woke him from cryosleep, where he heard the hive mind and spoke with another Wade.

Wade’s fractured sense of reality let him perceive Brad and teleport across universes, prompting Brad to hire him to study the Eye Demon Flesh. The chapter left Wade guarding the creature and tasked with feeding it his madness in exchange for ten times his pay.

• Wade’s exposure to the Eye Demon Flesh’s influence drove him into madness, and he noticed the surveillance camera and greeted Brad.
• Wade teleported to Brad across universes, surprising him, and Brad supplied Wade with clothes and a Deadpool uniform.
• Brad hired Wade and promised to pay him in precious metals or rare ores.
• Brad sent Wade to Number One’s headquarters, then Number One departed and left him with the Eye Demon Flesh.
• Brad ordered Wade to keep the creature from escaping and discover how to feed it, offering ten times the agreed pay if he succeeded.

The Avengers tested Brad’s abilities and accepted him as a new superhero, then assigned him to destroy a Hydra base in Canada. Brad realized with unease that the target was the organization he had once led in his home universe.

• Dr. Pym, Tony, and Mar-Vell tested Brad’s speed, strength, reflexes, and stamina, and Mar-Vell vouched for him.
• Brad declined to choose a superhero alias, and the Avengers gave him a Communicator Card.
• The Avengers assigned Brad his first mission: destroy a Hydra branch base in Canada.
• Brad reflected that he had once been Hydra’s supreme commander in Number One’s Home Universe.

The Avengers briefed Brad on Hydra and recruited him for a covert mission to expose a hidden Canadian base. He and Second-Generation Moonstone, Karla Sofen, posed as newlyweds and flew to Canada, while Brad wondered why her Moonstone powers exceeded the ones he had once used.

• Captain America explained Hydra's history and the Avengers' discovery of its Canadian branch base, while Vision acknowledged Brad.
• Brad secretly scanned Vision and studied his unusual android body and human-derived thought processes.
• The Avengers planned to infiltrate Canada, provoke Hydra into revealing itself, and strike the base before its members could evacuate.
• Tony Stark paired Brad with Karla Sofen, the Second-Generation Moonstone, to guide him on the mission.
• Brad and Karla adopted forged identities as newlyweds and boarded a flight to Canada.
• Brad noticed Karla could pass through walls and suspected he had failed to master abilities his own Moonstone possessed.

Brad and Kara followed a Hydra agent on a flight while Brad used the Original Sin Virus to make him careless. Meanwhile, Brad reflected on the slow progress of cultivating the Eye Demon Flesh and the danger of the Eye Demon's true body.

• Kara urged Brad to act more affectionately so the Hydra agent would not suspect they were following him, but Brad pretended to sleep.
• Brad monitored the Original Sin Virus from Universe One Base and subtly amplified the Hydra agent's arrogance and sloth.
• Brad released another batch of Original Sin Virus strains while the Hydra agent ordered a meal, unaware of the influence on his thoughts.
• Brad considered how Deadpool had been chopping away the Eye Demon's tentacles without being infected, since the Eye Demon Flesh could not affect people who retained their sanity.
• Brad recalled the horrifying images Number Four had transmitted before self-destructing, which had caused even Primordial Brad pain and threatened his sanity.

Brad arrived in Canada with Kara while Hydra agents exchanged their code phrase, then turned his attention to infecting Earth-10011 without alerting its powerful mystics. In a separate magic-focused universe, he studied magic with Carter, whose Ghost Rider power let them force several prominent mages to cooperate.

• A Hydra agent arrived at Pearson Airport and exchanged the phrase "Hail Hydra" with his colleague as Brad and Kara left the cabin.
• Brad considered the spread of the Original Sin Virus and the danger posed by The Ancient One and Doctor Strange in Earth-10011.
• Brad's consciousness controlled a weakened clone in Parallel Universe 7, where Carter served as his bodyguard while he investigated his inability to use magic.
• Carter complained that the magic-focused universe lacked entertaining television, while Brad continued seeking instruction from its magic users.
• Carter defeated Magneto, Iron Man, Doctor Octopus, and other mages, forcing them to yield their knowledge and reserves to Brad.

Brad and Carter arrived at X Academy seeking a way to overcome Brad’s immunity to magic. Logan revealed that he had once been immune to spells too and might know how Brad could solve the problem.

• Brad learned that the Phoenix Force had recently been in the universe and decided to find Jean Grey at X Academy.
• On the ride to the academy, Brad tried magical techniques without success, while Carter demonstrated that the spells worked for her.
• Professor X welcomed Brad and Carter, and Logan took their horses’ reins as they entered X Academy.
• Logan told Brad that he knew why he had come and might have an idea, then privately recalled that he had once been a spell-immune Muggle.

Brad learned that Logan’s history in this universe differed from the usual tale: born without Howlett blood or magical talent, he had endured hardship alongside his devoted older brother, Victor. The chapter ended with Logan paralyzed and unable to think clearly as Victor carried him around the world, seeking mages who could save him.

• Brad reviewed the four categories of magic and concluded that he needed to discover how to use magic drawn from himself or nature.
• Brad learned that Logan had been born to a Muggle gardener and the lady of the Howlett household, leaving him without the family’s blood or magical talent.
• Logan and his older brother, Victor, escaped their burning manor and later survived several wars together as ordinary soldiers.
• Logan suffered head and spinal injuries in a war, leaving him paralyzed and in a vegetative state.
• Victor carried Logan around the world, begging mages to save him, while Logan watched without understanding who Victor was.

Logan recounted how Stryker had saved him by replacing his bones with enchanted materials, and how Logan later mastered Regeneration Magic while consumed by grief and guilt. He offered Brad the same bone-replacement procedure, leaving Brad to consider the crude magical surgery as a possible solution to his inability to sense magical energy.

• Victor agreed to become Stryker’s experimental subject on the condition that Stryker save Logan.
• After Victor died, Stryker used Victor’s remains, enchanted replacement bones, and meteoric iron marrow to restore Logan and let him sense natural energy.
• Logan woke in a frenzy and killed Stryker, then later regained his memories and became consumed by efforts to revive Victor and Stryker with Regeneration Magic.
• Logan perfected Regeneration Magic and attracted factions seeking to exploit him before Professor X and Jean Grey helped him join the X Academy.
• Logan told Brad that Stryker’s bone replacement and marrow injection could treat Brad’s magic-insulator constitution, and Brad considered the proposal.

Brad discovered that an unseen force disrupted his magical clone when his consciousness awakened it, and he suspected the Dream Dimension was responsible. He called for Number One and Deadpool while Number One, fighting Gladiator, was summoned away by his true body.

• Brad had Base One create a magical clone, but it exploded when his consciousness took control of it.
• Brad's scans found no detectable cause, leading him to suspect interference from the Dream Dimension.
• Brad ordered someone to contact Number One and Deadpool.
• Number One fought Gladiator on a moon after challenging him repeatedly, while Number Four had earlier earned the Shi'ar Empire's respect and helped restore damaged planets.
• Number One stopped sparring with Gladiator when his true body called him again.

Brad sent Number One and Deadpool into Odin's Dreamland to rescue Donald, who had been trapped in an artificial paradise for tens of thousands of years. Number One woke Donald and offered him a chance at revenge by training him in the Magnetic Field Rotation Method and Civilization's Killing Weapon Way.

• Brad explained the Dream Dimension mission and gave Number One and Deadpool Brain Waves Synchronizers to enter Donald's dream.
• Number One knocked Deadpool unconscious, and they both fell asleep to reach the Odin-Forged Dreamland.
• Deadpool and Number One found Donald standing motionless in a city where Odin had trapped him for tens of thousands of years.
• Number One decided Donald's despair made him a promising candidate to practice the Magnetic Field Rotation Method and inherit the Civilization's Killing Weapon Way.
• Number One gently struck Donald's head to wake him, and Donald mistook him for Mr. Brad.
• Number One asked Donald if he wanted revenge.

Number One ordered Deadpool to teach Donald how to kill, and Donald slaughtered the people Odin had created in Dreamland. When Donald realized the city had not been restored, Number One suspected Odin was weakened, and Donald decided to kill Asgardians next.

• Number One used his magnetic field power to teach Donald the Civilization's Killing Weapon Way and ordered Deadpool to teach him how to kill.
• Deadpool handed Donald a sword and urged him to attack the smiling people in the city.
• Donald slaughtered the people on the streets and in their homes, then split a charging truck with an electrically charged slash.
• Donald realized the destroyed people and city had not been restored, unlike the previous times he had caused destruction.
• Number One suggested Odin might be weakened, and Donald declared that he wanted to kill some Asgardians.
• Number One agreed to help Donald.

Thor and Loki found Odin living as a homeless man on Earth and brought him back to Asgard, where Gungnir briefly restored his memories. Odin warned them that his efforts to prevent Ragnarok had made it more devastating, named Dreamland and Donald as threats, and vanished as his power ran out, leaving Thor to face the coming destruction.

• Thor and Loki found Odin scavenging through trash on Earth, and Odin did not recognize them or remember being the All-Father.
• Thor and Loki brought Odin to Asgard, fed him, and took him to his former temple.
• Gungnir restored Odin's memories, and he explained that he had tried to prevent Ragnarok by destroying its causes in his universe.
• Odin warned Thor and Loki to beware of Dreamland and Donald, then dissolved into golden light after revealing that Ragnarok had drained his power.
• Thor mourned Odin, then resolved to protect Asgard, while Loki revealed that he knew about Donald.

Loki told Thor that Donald was the manifestation of Thor’s negative energy in the Dream Dimension, then recounted how he had secretly watched Donald’s life in Thor’s dream. After Odin removed and hid the Dreamland, Loki eventually found it bottled in a neglected corner of Asgard’s prison.

• Loki recalled how Thor’s first campaign ended after villagers mocked him, sending him into a rage so powerful that the skies darkened before Odin put him to sleep.
• While Thor slept, Loki entered the pink mist around his palace and watched Donald, a hardworking boy in a future version of Midgard, grow up with dreams of becoming a doctor.
• Loki later realized Thor had lost part of himself, and Olbuda explained that Thor had been split; Odin had extracted his Dreamland and hidden it.
• Loki searched Odin’s vaults for the Dreamland but found nothing, then stopped looking for several hundred years.
• Loki entered Asgard’s prison to find material for a prank and spotted the Dreamland, sealed in a glass bottle among the discarded objects in a distant corner.

Loki and Thor discovered that Donald’s Dream Body had become corrupted and that every prisoner in Asgard’s prison was dead. Beneath the Atlantic, a man made from Thor’s negative traits killed Jörmungandr and drained its blood and magic to prepare to bring Ragnarök to Asgard.

• Loki told Thor how he had entered the bottle’s Dreamland centuries earlier and found Donald begging Odin to let him live in the real human world.
• Loki and Thor found the bottle filled with blood-red mist and realized Donald’s Dreamland had changed.
• Thor illuminated the prison and found every cell empty; the Dark Elf who had spoken to them crumbled to dust when Thor touched him.
• Beneath the Atlantic, the man who identified himself as Thor’s cruelty, cowardice, madness, and fear told Jörmungandr he would bring Ragnarök to Asgard.
• The man attacked Jörmungandr, pierced its eye, and drained its blood and magic until the serpent shriveled and died.

Donald rejected Thor’s offer to return to Asgard and attacked Heimdall, killing him before entering Asgard. Loki and Thor realized Heimdall was dead, and Thor took Loki to seek help reaching Asgard.

• Thor offered to make amends and bring Donald back to Asgard, but Donald refused and vowed to destroy it.
• Heimdall attacked Donald in the passage to Asgard, and Donald killed him after a fierce fight.
• Donald kicked Heimdall’s head off the Bifrost and entered Asgard as black mist.
• Loki sensed that Heimdall was dead, and Thor took Loki to New York to find someone who could help them reach Asgard.

Donald trapped Asgard in a shared dream, where he appeared to slaughter its inhabitants and drain their power. He planned to strip the gods of their divinity in revenge for Odin’s treatment of him, while sparing their lives in reality to honor the person who helped him.

• Thor, Loki, and Doctor Strange arrived in Asgard and saw what appeared to be Donald standing amid flames and Sif’s corpse.
• Thor attacked Donald, declaring that only one of them would survive, while Loki left to search for Frigga and other survivors.
• Doctor Strange sensed something was wrong, used the Eye of Agamotto, and discovered that Asgard’s inhabitants were asleep inside a dream created by Donald.
• Doctor Strange found that Donald had made the inhabitants experience their deaths in the dream and absorbed their power, while Frigga resisted the blood-red threads in Odin’s temple.
• Donald told Doctor Strange that he had spared Asgard’s people in reality and intended to drain their power, stripping them of their godhood as a form of Ragnarok.

Brad entered the Dream Dimension with Donald to investigate whether his soul had been tampered with, while Apocalypse traced the War Horseman’s collapse to the Dream Dimension and threatened Nightmare. The chapter left Brad’s soul under examination and Nightmare bewildered by Apocalypse’s warning.

• Brad had Donald bring him into the Dream Dimension, where its lawless nature began dissolving his body and programmed consciousness.
• Brad ordered Donald to examine his soul as the Dream Dimension’s mist attacked him, while his bodies in the Home Universe collapsed into their nutrient pods.
• Number One reassured Deadpool that Brad was confident and that the situation was under control, prompting Deadpool to relax and eat.
• Apocalypse saw the War Horseman near death, used the Pyramid’s inscriptions to discover the Dream Dimension was involved, and threatened Nightmare.
• Nightmare heard Apocalypse’s warning and wondered why trouble had found him despite keeping to himself.

Donald extracted a wisp of purple smoke from Brad's dissolving soul as Brad activated a backup plan to mature his havoc body through Ahmed's expanding Life Stele. Number Four stopped Ahmed's growth, while Brad regained his strength and formed armor from the excess energy.

• Donald sealed the purple smoke taken from Brad's soul inside a glass vial, and Brad activated his backup plan.
• Brad awakened his havoc body and sent Ahmed into a dying universe to absorb cosmic radiation, causing Ahmed's Life Stele to grow to nearly Earth-sized proportions.
• The energy from Ahmed's growth rapidly matured Brad's havoc body, whose released power threatened to destroy the Main Camp base.
• Number Four merged with the nanotech divine body and altered the Life Stele's data, stopping its expansion and beginning to shrink it.
• The energy flowing back to Brad restored his soul, and he shaped the excess golden light into armor as a white-haired girl watched from beyond the red mist.

Brad questioned the powerful white-haired girl who had helped him, and Nightmare arrived to explain his role in the Dream Dimension and the omniverse. The chapter ended with Brad overwhelmed by the revelation that Nightmare existed across countless worlds under different names.

• Brad provoked the girl into revealing her immense power, and she knocked him repeatedly on the forehead while Donald remained far away.
• Nightmare appeared, freed Brad from the girl's restraints, and apologized for his daughter's behavior.
• Brad asked whether Nightmare ruled the Dreamland, and Nightmare said he was its nominal ruler but could not accept the title of supreme demon god.
• Nightmare explained that he could not die as long as imagination existed and described how universes, multiverses, and the omniverse related to one another.
• Nightmare told Brad that he was known in the Marvel multiverse as Nightmare and had other identities in different universes, leaving Brad and his hive mind stunned.

Brad learned that Nightmare had helped him to avoid Apocalypse’s anger and earn a favor, while Apocalypse revealed his love for War Horseman. He showed War Horseman memories of his brutal childhood, leaving the story with the blue-skinned child imprisoned and tormented by a tribe.

• The Brads, Deadpool, and Number One Brad erupted with excitement after learning about the omniverse, but Brad told them to focus on their own universe.
• Brad asked Nightmare why he had helped, and Nightmare admitted he feared Apocalypse and wanted Brad’s favor because someone had tampered with Brad’s soul using dream power.
• Brad realized Nightmare would not reveal who had altered his soul, accepted that he owed Nightmare a favor, and left with Donald.
• War Horseman woke with a healed, strengthened soul and control over technology across half the Solar System, then asked Apocalypse whether he had known War Horseman’s origin.
• Apocalypse said he knew War Horseman was an offshoot consciousness but loved him as a mutant, and used psychic power to show him memories of his past.
• The memories showed the nameless blue-skinned child surviving on a dying grassland before hunters took him to their tribe, where children abused him as prey.

The War Horseman received Apocalypse’s history, his inscription technology, and every mutant ability he had recorded. With Primordial Brad’s approval, he chose to remain in the parallel universe and protect its mutants, then declared himself Brad’s fourth divine form.

• Apocalypse’s memories revealed how he escaped captivity, gathered mutants, and led them to conquer Egypt before discovering his origins through inscription technology.
• After Apocalypse fell into despair, human slaves attacked the Pyramid, and the Four Horsemen sacrificed themselves to bury him and the Golden Platform underground.
• Apocalypse gave the War Horseman his inscription technology and asked him to stay and protect the mutants; the War Horseman agreed as Apocalypse turned to ice.
• The War Horseman transmitted the inscription technology to Primordial Brad, who approved his decision to remain in the parallel universe.
• With support from the base, Supercomputer World, and Number Four, the War Horseman gathered Apocalypse’s recorded abilities and declared himself Brad’s fourth divine form.

Brad mastered the first series of self-energy magic and began rapidly refining the second series of environmental magic. After becoming the most powerful practitioner of the first series, he surpassed the Home Universe’s Kamar-Taj magic traditions in just minutes.

• A lab-coated Brad explained that this universe’s Apocalypse gained mutant abilities through mutual love, while Number One learned that Mass Transcendence still ranked ahead of him and left the Main Camp base in anger.
• Brad sensed self-energy, tore open space with a burst of power, and destroyed his eyes before regrowing them with ultimate gene transformation.
• Brad reinforced his eyes and perfected the Forbidden Magic, using it to make the moon vanish before restoring it and mitigating the resulting effects on Earth.
• Brad had the Main Camp base accelerate time inside his room and mastered every spell based on self-energy use within three seconds of normal time.
• Brad began studying environmental energy magic, upgraded the Magic Shield hundreds of times, and mastered the Home Universe’s Kamar-Taj spells by the third minute.

Brad acquired magical power from several Dimension Demon Gods, then left Carter behind after learning she wanted to pursue Jean Grey. On Earth-10011, he merged with his other self and joined Karla Sofen to track a Hydra agent to a Canadian base, where they prepared to attack.

• Brad signed contracts with Nightmare, Mephisto, Cyttorak, Chthon, the Vishanti, and Dormammu, gaining their magical power and authority.
• Brad decided to postpone approaching the Eye Demon and accelerate the Original Sin Virus infection on Earth-10011.
• Brad learned Carter wanted to stay and compete with Logan for Jean Grey's affections, then left for Earth-10011.
• Brad merged with superhero Brad, and Karla Sofen alerted him that their Hydra target had returned to the base.
• Brad and Karla followed the Hydra agent to the Canadian base, where Brad planted Stark's miniature computer beside a concealed signal device.