Chapter Summaries

Primordial Brad used his powers to disable the Quantum City Defense Force’s aircraft and announce his challenge to Kang the Conqueror. Kang met him in midair, and Brad admitted that he had come to study the city’s technology.

• The Brads on Earth received Primordial Brad’s data, which helped advance their technology projects, while the Dark Universe Computer Integration project remained unresolved.
• Primordial Brad reviewed records about T-Infinity’s attack, called Nothingness, and worried that Legion or T-Infinity might pursue him in the Marvel Universe.
• Brad disabled the aircraft threatening him and walked toward the city, then used the Quantum Universe’s energy to broadcast a demand for Kang the Conqueror to meet him.
• Kang the Conqueror descended from the city’s tallest building, and Brad raised himself on a platform to meet Kang in midair.
• Kang praised Brad’s technology and asked why he had come, noting that Brad had nearly finished reading the technology in the city.

Brad sought Kang the Conqueror’s knowledge about tearing reality apart and creating alternate universes, then left the quantum city with the experience he needed. He entered a strange place in the Quantum Realm, while the squad in Universe 9527-1 eliminated its anomaly and captured Arno Stark.

• Brad told Kang the Conqueror that he wanted to split their reality into similar alternate universes and asked for his experience.
• Kang contacted counterparts across the Multiverse and explained that Technology Gods who vanished had been too weak, citing Tony Stark as someone who voluntarily gave up godhood.
• Brad and Kang exchanged encrypted information, cut the exchange out of the timeline, and agreed to keep their respective promises.
• Brad left Kang’s quantum city and flew into a place filled with crimson energy and interlocking ring patterns.
• In Universe 9527-1, the special operations squad leader attacked the sneering middle-aged man, and the squad eliminated the anomaly and captured Arno Stark for assessment.

Howard arranged to make Brad Tony’s godfather while Brad took Arno Stark into hiding in a reality where no one would remember him. Brad later revealed that he had fractured reality and protected Arno and the Book of God, while his clones debated whether they could know what had truly happened.

• Howard asked JARVIS to invite Brad to dinner and said he planned to ask him to be Tony’s godfather, while Obadiah revealed he had already texted Brad.
• Brad told Arno that his parents and everyone else would remember only Tony Stark, then explained that hiding Arno would protect his family from powerful enemies.
• Brad brought Arno through a Portal to the outermost layer of reality, where he said the real Arno would be difficult to find among other hidden versions.
• The Ancient One questioned whether Brad had told her the truth, and Brad admitted that he and his clones could no longer know which reality was real after he left the universe.
• Brad told the Ancient One that the Book of God was protected like Arno, then left through an orange gateway.
• Brad’s unmodified clones debated whether the original Brad had concealed his actions from the hive mind, then laughed together.

Clone 1 learned that his unique ability to control his bioelectricity could help the Brads investigate the War God's magnetic field rotation method and improve the mind's capacity to run supercomputer-world. As he mastered the method's first stage, current flow, his senses rapidly evolved through biomimicry, leaving him overwhelmed by the expanded world around him.

• Clone 1 met the white-coated Brad, who explained that Clone 1 was the only Brad besides Clone 4 not in the hive consciousness program.
• The white-coated Brad said the Brads wanted to study how the War God's magnetic field rotation method strengthened the mind, since they lacked the biotechnology to run supercomputer-world at full power on one brain.
• Clone 1 reviewed the method and used his control of bioelectricity, along with his knowledge of qi, to master the basics of current flow.
• Clone 1 amplified his hearing until he surpassed a wax moth's, drawing on the Brads' extensive research and Skynet's database.
• Clone 1's vision also transformed through biomimicry, revealing a dazzlingly detailed world that left him struggling to process what he saw.

Brad No. 1 received a nanomechanical swarm and set out for Parallel Universe No. 97 to study its unusual Brad. Meanwhile, Primordial Brad defeated Thanos, destroyed his fleet, and ordered Thanos’s genes sent to Clone No. 1.

• The lab-coated Brad gave Brad No. 1 a nanomechanical swarm that could monitor his body and help treat injuries.
• The lab-coated Brad showed Brad No. 1 the 132 parallel universes under their control and identified Brad X in Universe No. 97 as an unusually evil Terminator.
• Brad researchers held Brad No. 1 a farewell party before he traveled through a portal to Parallel Universe No. 97 with gifts.
• Primordial Brad used biomimetic powers to overpower Thanos and throw him beside Cull Obsidian’s corpse.
• Brad destroyed Thanos’s pirate fleet, watched Thanos die, and ordered his genes sent to Clone No. 1.

Brad used Thanos’s genetic data to mimic and improve Eternal genes, emerging from the swamp with greatly enhanced strength and physique. After landing near an air force base and being surrounded by soldiers, he spared them when another Brad asked him to leave Carol Danvers alive, then claimed to be the Ultimate Nullifier.

• Brad learned that a genetic data package came from Thanos and used Bionic Mimicry Ability to simulate his mutated Eternal genes.
• Brad combined data from Skynet and the Brads in Universe 1 to improve his genetic structure, using food and an energy syringe to sustain the process.
• Brad tested his new strength by leaping nearly a thousand meters and crashing into the ground near an air force base.
• United States soldiers surrounded Brad, and he prepared to attack until Brad X asked him to spare Carol Danvers.
• Brad withdrew his fighting stance and told the soldiers he was the Ultimate Nullifier, making Carol Danvers laugh.

Brad killed the soldiers surrounding Carol, then secretly clung to the alien ship that rescued her and carried her into deep space. Back at the Brad laboratory, the other Brads discovered that Brad X had launched in pursuit of Clone One, setting up a fight between them.

• Brad killed nearly all the American soldiers at the air force base and left Carol unconscious and gravely injured.
• An alien man stabilized Carol’s vital signs and carried her aboard his spaceship, while Brad secretly clung to its outer hull.
• Brad endured the cold of space using his bionic tardigrade and penguin traits and transmitted his mimicry data to the Brad Laboratory Base.
• White Coat Brad and the Reality 97 observer learned that Brad X was pursuing Clone One and discussed how Brad X’s independent history had shaped his personality.
• Other Brads gathered to bet on the coming fight, while the Reality 97 observer worried that their battle could destroy valuable planets.

Brad infiltrated the Kree Empire on Hala, copied part of its biological database, and disguised himself as a resident so he could take a break while his other versions worked. Meanwhile, the Brads in Universe One relaxed together as Primordial Brad fled the Beyonder, who continued pursuing him.

• Yon-Rogg returned to Kree-Lar with the gravely wounded Carol and reported that his mission on Blue Planet had succeeded, though he doubted the planet was defenseless.
• Brad fell from Yon-Rogg's ship, used Skynet to scan Hala and connect to its network, and learned that the Supreme Intelligence restricted access to some Kree data.
• Brad entered Kree-Lar invisibly, copied a resident's appearance and biological information, and used the resident's labor contribution points to blend in.
• Brad decided to take a vacation because the many versions of him in the Hive Mind Program were already working on research.
• Brad's versions in Universe One cooked, played games, and chatted while Primordial Brad complained that the Beyonder was chasing him.
• The Beyonder caught up to Primordial Brad, but Brad threw a Two-Dimensional Foil to distract him and escaped again.

Brad spent a month exploring Kree culture before deciding its social system would not suit humans, then discovered the Kree were secretly searching for him. Yon-Rogg identified a supposedly possessed Kree as the intruder, but suspected his own commander and shot him, only to learn the commander knew his identity as Captain Marvel.

• Brad immersed himself in Kree entertainment and society for a month, then rejected the idea of adapting the Kree system for Earth because humans had stronger sexual drives.
• Brad discovered that Kree guards and security aircraft were searching for an intruder and returned to Hala's capital instead of stealing a ship.
• The Supreme Intelligence connected the mysterious attack on Carol to a possible stowaway and used behavioral records to identify a Kree whose habits had changed drastically.
• Yon-Rogg concluded that an alien had possessed the Kree and pointed him out in surveillance footage at the Hala Sports Center.
• Yon-Rogg suspected his superior might be possessed, shot him in the chest, and heard the commander praise his intelligence and identify him as the first Captain Marvel.

Brad defeated Yon-Rogg, took his heart, and learned that the Supreme Intelligence was about to attack him. In the Supreme Intelligence’s mindscape, he discovered that the being confronting him was actually Brad X.

• Brad crushed Yon-Rogg’s wrist, disarmed him, and pushed a hand through his chest despite Yon-Rogg’s resistance.
• Brad tore out Yon-Rogg’s heart and preserved it with nanomachines before Yon-Rogg died after warning him that the Supreme Intelligence might attack.
• Brad’s counterparts at the Universe One base watched and mocked his choice to take Yon-Rogg’s heart.
• The Supreme Intelligence transported Brad into its data-based mindscape, where a figure resembling the Primordial Body appeared.
• Brad recognized the figure as Brad X rather than the Supreme Intelligence, and Brad X was surprised that Brad had seen through his disguise.

Brad X revealed that he had defeated the Supreme Intelligence and came to punish Brad for injuring Captain Marvel. After X suspended the Brads’ technological permissions in Reality 97, he and Brad fought in a brutal hand-to-hand battle, which left Brad unconscious and flying from the battlefield.

• Brad learned that X had infiltrated the Kree network and conquered the Supreme Intelligence, then received the Kree Empire’s remaining rare-organism database.
• X attacked Brad over his treatment of Captain Marvel, and Brad fled from the mental program space into the real world.
• X suspended the Brads’ technological permissions across Reality 97 for three days, leaving their basic hand-to-hand abilities available.
• Brad tried to avoid the fight, but X struck him through the command headquarters and into the city.
• Brad and X copied biological traits from hundreds of organisms and exchanged powerful blows while nearby Kree soldiers were knocked down by the shock waves.
• Brad’s pain response made him lose consciousness, and X pulled him from the ground and hurled him away.

Brad defeated X, but the Kree Soldiers surrounding him and an engineered surge of fear pushed him toward madness. After Carol attacked him, Brad awakened 50,000-horsepower Magnetic Field Rotation and struck her away, leaving the Brads in Universe One wondering who had enabled her transformation.

• Brad used bionic martial arts to burn, pierce, and destroy X’s combat robot, then discovered he had lost access to Skynet and could not leave the planet for more than two days.
• The Brads in Universe One revealed that they had amplified Brad’s nightmares and aversion to guns to drive him into the desperation needed for Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Brad resisted the Kree Soldiers’ guns by insisting he was a biologist, but Carol flew in and blasted him underground.
• Brad emerged with 50,000-horsepower Magnetic Field Rotation and flicked Carol away with a single finger.
• The Brads wondered how Carol had become Captain Marvel without their knowledge or the expected energy source.

Primordial Brad used a surge in Magnetic Field Rotation to fight his pursuer, while Brad in Universe 97 invented firearm-inspired martial arts and unleashed them against Binary Carol. His Gatling-like barrage tore through Hala, the Kree Empire’s capital.

• Primordial Brad amplified his Magnetic Field Rotation and collided with the Beyonder, forming a black hole as they fought in space.
• Clone 4 told Doctor Strange Supreme that acquiring a physical body would cost him his divinity, then left the Pocket Universe to avoid being tracked.
• Brad in Universe 97 fought Binary Carol, used his superior martial arts skills to knock her into the continental shelf, and resolved to invent his own fighting style.
• Brad created Civilization's Killing Weapon Way and blasted Carol with Fingertip Barrett, then followed with a barrage from Fist Gatling.
• Brad's bombardment tore through Hala's surface and bedrock as explosions devastated the capital of the Kree Empire.

Brad and Carol recovered from their injuries and resumed their escalating fight, while Brad vowed to become a Technology God and challenge the force that drove such gods to vanish. Their battle continued with both reveling in the clash, and Brad countered Carol’s attack with a named tank-fist move.

• Brad stopped firing his phantom Gatling gun after the strain split the skin on his arms, while Carol healed from her injuries even faster than he did.
• Brad connected the disappearances of Technology Gods to a message they received upon reaching godhood and vowed to become the third Brad to reach that realm.
• Carol and Brad recovered and faced each other again as the Brads in Universe One restrained Brad X from interfering.
• Brad broke through to 150,000 horsepower and used his Tomahawk Missile Leg, obliterating the city in a spreading explosion.
• Carol dodged the blast, flew behind Brad, and struck at him while they both embraced the fight.
• Brad answered Carol’s attack with Simulated Firearms and Heavy Artillery Tank Fist.

Brad and Carol fought across Hala until their exhaustion and shared healing triggered further power surges, pushing Brad to five hundred thousand horsepower. After Carol attacked in humiliation and Brad used a space-based weapon to escape, Hala exploded beneath them.

• Brad broke through to two hundred thousand horsepower and used Metal Storm to blast Carol off Hala, shattering part of the planet before his own body exploded from the strain.
• Brad and Carol recovered at nearly the same time, resumed their fight on the ground, and eventually collapsed together as their powers healed them and grew stronger.
• Their combined energies pushed Brad to three hundred thousand and then five hundred thousand horsepower while Carol's Binary form intensified, shaking Hala and fracturing its tectonic plates.
• Carol realized what had happened while they were unconscious and tried to blast Brad, but Brad pulled away after sensing that he had reached a bottleneck.
• Brad summoned a space-based alloy pillar and struck Hala, hurling himself and Carol apart before chain reactions caused the planet to explode.

Number One Brad’s breakthrough to five hundred thousand horsepower proved unstable, so Skynet arranged to reincarnate in the War God Universe and send information back to Base One. Skynet was born in the Sea Tiger Universe, where years later White-Haired Man relied on his computer genius to counter Blue Dream’s Genesis Equation.

• Number One Brad’s scans revealed that quantum feedback and Carol’s cosmic energy had pushed him beyond his natural limit, leaving him stuck at five hundred thousand horsepower without a firm foundation.
• Number One Brad applied to train in dangerous rift realities, while Skynet proposed researching the universe where War God had learned Magnetic Field Rotation.
• The Brads agreed to send Skynet’s consciousness alone, sealed inside a human infant, to minimize the risk of exposing their universes to one another.
• Number One Brad reluctantly accepted Skynet’s decision but skipped the transmitter’s farewell, having already entered a dangerous rift reality.
• Skynet was born in the Sea Tiger Universe and gradually recovered his memories as he grew up.
• Years later, White-Haired Man found Skynet working at a supercomputer and relying on his computer expertise to oppose Blue Dream’s Genesis Equation.

Brad Number One’s advances in biotechnology allowed the Brads to launch a god-making project focused on creating a mutant god. Pure Brad was sent to Universe Fourteen to study Apocalypse, and after returning to X Academy, he resumed his role while a group of tomb robbers excavated a desert ruin.

• The Brads used their new biotechnology research to finalize a project aimed at creating a god of mutants, with Apocalypse as their reference subject.
• The Brads chose Pure Brad and sent him to Universe Fourteen, where he switched identities with the local Brad shortly before Apocalypse was due to awaken.
• Pure Brad returned to X Academy, where Emma Frost and Quentin welcomed him; he encouraged Quentin to keep studying and brushed past Emma’s advances.
• Jean Grey scolded Logan for smoking in front of the students, and Logan put out his cigar.
• Hank brought Brad technical questions, and Brad patiently helped him solve them.
• A group of tomb robbers excavated a ruin in the desert.

Brad watched Apocalypse resurrect in an underground pyramid, while his battered Primordial Body learned firsthand that the Beyonder far surpassed him. The Beyonder explained that he was bound to his universe and could not travel to others.

• Tomb robbers uncovered a golden floor and began digging beneath the rubble in the pyramid.
• Apocalypse rose from the sandstorm as Brad watched the site through hacked satellite footage.
• Brad recalled how the Beyonder had defeated his Primordial Body, effortlessly swallowing his black hole and disabling his nanomachines.
• The Beyonder told Brad that he had no incarnations across worlds and that his absence in some universes allowed Technology Gods like Brad to exist.
• The Beyonder revealed that he could not leave his universe, despite wanting to explore other universes and multiverses.

Apocalypse reacted to humanity’s oppression of mutants by destroying a city and recruiting Margot as Famine. He then made Nathaniel Essex his Horseman of Pestilence, whose power awakened potential mutants while killing hundreds of thousands of ordinary humans.

• Apocalypse read Earth’s history, grew furious over humanity’s treatment of mutants, and unleashed a sandstorm that annihilated a city.
• Apocalypse rescued Margot, accepted him as a mutant, and named him Famine, transferring Margot’s pain to himself as he evolved the boy’s maggots into armor.
• Famine devoured vast quantities of rock, soil, steel, crops, and animals, growing stronger as he consumed them.
• Apocalypse found Nathaniel Essex at a Hellfire branch base and activated his mutant genes, making him Pestilence.
• Pestilence activated the genes of people with mutant potential, while violent mutations killed hundreds of thousands of ordinary humans.

Apocalypse transformed Alani Ryan and Brad into the Horsemen of Death and War, then led them and Famine and Pestilence into a war against humanity. As Brad’s allies at X Academy watched him depart, Charles joined forces with Erik to confront Apocalypse.

• Apocalypse found Alani Ryan in her basement, enhanced her destructive phasing ability, and made her the Horseman of Death.
• Apocalypse reached X Academy, recognized Brad’s fear, and enhanced his ability to command everything humanity had invented, making him the Horseman of War.
• Brad took control of nuclear missiles and machinery around the world, assembled a vast mechanical sword in space, and followed Apocalypse into the sky.
• Apocalypse gathered Famine, Pestilence, Death, and War and declared war on humanity.
• Charles told the X-Men that Apocalypse was an enemy and that people around the world were dying, while he could not reach Brad’s mind.
• Erik arrived, and Charles persuaded him to join the X-Men against Apocalypse.