Chapter Summaries

Brad and Kang the Conqueror discovered that an administrator was controlling the multiverse and preventing powerful beings from reaching Earth-616. They parted to find ways through its gates, while the Creator dismissed their challenge and ordered the Council to address a virus.

• Kang the Conqueror learned that his Earth-616 counterpart was weak and appeared to have been manipulated, while Brad explained that most splintered realities were controlled by a hidden power.
• Brad and Kang the Conqueror agreed to compete to solve the administrator problem, then join forces against it.
• Brad relinquished control of the Cosmic Over-Mind Body, and Nothingness erased it, causing the moon to disappear before Nothingness vanished.
• Iron Man from Earth-616 detected the moon's disappearance and its effects on Earth's gravity, but returned to his research.
• A mysterious figure reported to the Creator that the Seventh Observation Target and the Fourteenth Observation Target had left the universe and seemed to declare war.
• The Creator told the figure to help the Third Observation Target build the Spatial Offset Resonance Device and deal with a virus.

Primordial Brad created the Original Sin Virus to study the mystical side after concluding that Earth-616’s broader range of research subjects explained its Iron Man’s advantages. Brad Skynet visited Doctor Strange Supreme in his isolated pocket universe, where Strange served him a feast of Dark Magic Creatures for analysis.

• Primordial Brad awoke in a flesh-and-blood body at Brad's headquarters while retaining access to his nanotech divine body through the Reality Stone.
• Brad reasoned that Earth-616 was unusually comprehensive and that its Iron Man could draw on far more research material than counterparts in other universes.
• Brad created the Original Sin Virus, which subtly intensified infected creatures’ emotions without causing obvious physical symptoms.
• Brad decided to seek mystical data and sent Number Four a message before Brad Skynet visited Doctor Strange Supreme.
• Doctor Strange Supreme prepared eighteen Dark Magic Creatures as a feast, and he and Brad Skynet absorbed them to examine their properties.

Brad Skynet persuaded Doctor Strange Supreme to help him seek the Eye Demon's true body, using a necklace of sixteen Mind Stones and Soul Stones to protect them. Their expedition ended in disaster, but Brad obtained a piece of the ancient god and was later elevated and resurrected, while Doctor Strange Supreme gained a key to ascending to a higher realm.

• Brad Skynet asked Strange for the coordinates of the Eye Demon's true dimension, and Strange warned him that facing its true body could destroy their minds.
• Brad revealed a necklace made from sixteen Mind Stones and Soul Stones collected from more than eight thousand dying Dark Universes, and Strange agreed to help after preparing Forbidden Magic.
• Primordial Brad obtained data on the entrance to the Eye Demon's true dimension as Doctor Strange Supreme and Transdimensional Number Four set out to find it.
• Doctor Strange Supreme and Transdimensional Number Four acquired part of the Eye Demon's manifestation, sealed it away, and fled as the ancient god attacked.
• The sixteen gems shattered, and Transdimensional Number Four sacrificed himself to shield Doctor Strange Supreme before Nothingness blocked the Eye Demon's strike and dissipated.
• Primordial Brad achieved his goal, Doctor Strange Supreme gained a key to ascending to a higher realm, and Transdimensional Number Four was elevated and resurrected at Universe One Base.

Brad arrived in universe 10011 and pretended to be a badly injured alien after noticing that someone had detected him. Richard Rider rescued him and brought him to Earth, where Tony Stark agreed to let him recover after hearing that he had lost his memories.

• Brad located the Solar System but waited beyond it when he realized someone had noticed his arrival.
• Brad built a battered spaceship from meteorites, feigned severe injuries, and pretended to pass out when Richard Rider arrived.
• Richard used the Nova Force to inspect Brad's ship, found him apparently dying, and brought him to Earth for treatment.
• Brad woke in a hospital, where Tony Stark and Richard argued about whether rescuing him had been responsible.
• Tony gave Brad a translator and accepted his claim that he had lost his memories because of damage from a wormhole passage.
• Tony left Brad in Richard's care, and Brad thanked Richard with a gesture that Richard misunderstood as an Earth greeting.

Brad settled into Universe 10011 as the alien Brai and released the Original Sin Virus, believing Earth’s confident superheroes made the universe a suitable testing ground. Meanwhile, the Brads monitored the sealed Eye Demon Flesh with Number One, whose prolonged exposure raised concerns about corruption.

• Brad discovered that Universe 10011 matched his requirements, explored Earth with Richard, and learned about its numerous superhero organizations.
• Brad observed that Richard and Tony quickly trusted him and concluded that Earth’s cultural confidence made its heroes underestimate outsiders.
• Brad released the Original Sin Virus, expecting pride to awaken first among the population.
• Number One demanded that the Brads defeat him before he would help monitor the Eye Demon Flesh, so Number Four fought him and returned him badly injured.
• Number One stayed to watch the sealed Eye Demon Flesh, fought off its tentacles, and admitted that he might be becoming corrupted by it.
• Brad worried that corruption could spread through the hive mind, though Number One had resisted its effects longer than expected.

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.