Chapter Summaries

Josen destroyed the Outrider transports and wiped out the invading army with precisely targeted attacks, astonishing the Avengers and Wakandan warriors. He then headed toward the Avengers as they wondered what he might do next.

• Josen used Heat Vision to destroy the troop transports outside Wakanda’s energy shield, and their explosions killed many Outriders.
• The Avengers watched Josen’s attack, while Captain America told Thor to be ready to step in if needed.
• Josen’s F-kid collected soul energy from the fallen Outriders, increasing his Fate Draw count by 1,086.
• Josen fired more than a thousand Ki Blasts that precisely killed the remaining Outriders without harming the Wakandan warriors.
• Natasha warned the Avengers that Josen was heading toward them.

Josen introduced himself to the Avengers after helping defeat Thanos’ remaining forces, and they cautiously asked about his identity and intentions. He clarified that he was an Earthling, not a professional mage, and left the group identifying himself as a police officer and hero.

• Josen landed among the Avengers and introduced himself as an Earthling, easing their suspicion with his calm demeanor.
• Josen showed that his costume change was a force-field effect, then told Steve Rogers that he only knew a little magic.
• Thor confronted Josen about why he had come, and Josen repeatedly teased him by calling him the Hammer God.
• Natasha stepped between them and asked Josen what he did, and he said he was a police officer and a hero.
• The Avengers reacted with surprise when Josen described his profession.

Josen joined the Avengers in Wakanda and proposed using the Infinity Stones to reverse Thanos’s snap and restore the vanished lives. The Avengers began considering how to reclaim the Gauntlet, while Thor prepared to face Thanos again and Josen offered his help.

• Josen told the Avengers he came from another Earth and gave them the pager Nick Fury had left behind, which Bruce Banner identified as transmitting a distress signal into space.
• The Avengers learned that Thanos’s snap had erased roughly half of Earth’s population and likely half of all life in the universe, leaving the heroes grieving and arguing over what to do.
• Josen suggested finding Thanos and using the Infinity Gauntlet to bring the vanished lives back, and Bruce Banner agreed that the stones could reverse the snap.
• Natasha questioned whether they could take the Gauntlet from Thanos, and Thor vowed to aim for his head while Josen offered to help.
• Thor approached Josen with an open hand as divine thunder surged through him and Stormbreaker trembled nearby.

The Avengers divided up tasks to locate Tony Stark and prepare for a confrontation with Thanos, while Josen volunteered to find the sorcerers who had gone into space with Tony. In New York, Josen saw the early chaos caused by the Snap, stopped a robber, and ate lunch while watching the city unravel.

• Josen caught Stormbreaker before Thor could, and Thor admitted he liked him.
• The Avengers assigned Rocket Raccoon to help Dr. Banner locate Thanos's ship, Rhodes to seek military permission, and Josen to find the sorcerers connected to Tony.
• The Captain and Natasha Romanoff agreed they had to do everything possible to bring everyone back.
• Josen encountered a robber in New York and fused the man's fingers to his pistol before taking the stolen goods.
• Josen bought burgers and pizzas, then watched the city from a rooftop as the Snap's disorder spread.

Josen went to the New York Sanctum to seek Kamar-Taj’s help for the Avengers’ planned revenge on Thanos. Wong, left as the highest-ranking surviving Master of the Mystic Arts after the Snap, was mistaken for the Sorcerer Supreme and caught off guard by Josen’s greeting.

• Josen held back information from the Avengers, judging that their trust in him remained limited and that he still had time before Thanos’s Snap.
• Josen used his spatial authority to reveal the hidden New York Sanctum on Bleecker Street.
• Wong prepared to defend the Sanctum after detecting that someone had breached its spatial concealment.
• Josen entered, called Wong the Sorcerer Supreme, and shook his hand despite Wong’s magical shields.
• Josen introduced himself as an Avengers representative and asked Wong for Kamar-Taj’s support against Thanos.

Josen persuaded Wong to let him study magic at Kamar-Taj and secretly used the opportunity to obtain a Sling Ring. The chapter also showed Tony Stark and Nebula struggling to keep their damaged ship running as they traveled back to Earth.

• Josen flattered Wong and asked to study magic at Kamar-Taj, and Wong agreed to give him a Sling Ring aptitude test.
• Wong began explaining how to use the Sling Ring while Josen urged F-kid to activate Fantasy Card.
• Tony Stark and Nebula repaired the Guardians of the Galaxy's damaged ship and set course for Earth.
• After ten days in space, Tony and Nebula faced worsening ship problems and dwindling food, water, and oxygen.

Josen learned to use a Sling Ring and opened a portal to the New Avengers Facility, where he introduced Wong to Captain America as the Sorcerer Supreme. Wong agreed to help the Avengers, beginning cooperation between them.

• Josen reviewed Wong’s magical abilities and learned that Wong was temporarily managing Kamar-Taj while serving as a powerful sorcerer.
• After Wong explained how to use a Sling Ring, Josen successfully opened a Dimensional Gateway.
• Josen’s portal led to the New Avengers Facility, where Steve Rogers recognized him and met Wong.
• Josen introduced Wong to Steve as the Sorcerer Supreme, and Wong clarified that he had not officially taken the position.
• Steve requested the sorcerers’ assistance on behalf of the Avengers, and Wong agreed to cooperate.

Josen studied Kamar-Taj’s magic and copied the Rings of Raggadorr, while the sorcerers located Tony Stark far from Earth. Wong could not teleport Tony back, leaving the Captain and Black Widow to face the urgency of rescuing him.

• Josen accompanied Wong to Kamar-Taj, copied Mirror Magic, and studied the mystic library while learning magic through theory and Fantasy Cards.
• After ten days, Josen copied the Rings of Raggadorr and impressed Wong by casting the defensive spell skillfully.
• Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers used dimensional magic to locate Tony Stark aboard the Benatar, more than four thousand light-years from Earth and running out of time.
• The Captain and Black Widow met Wong at the New York Sanctum, where Wong showed them Tony’s location and said he could not teleport him back with his current power.
• Josen reasoned that a true Sorcerer Supreme could teleport across the vast distance and thought that the essence of magic was borrowing without paying it back.

Josen answered Captain America's request and traveled to deep space to rescue Tony Stark. He found Tony and Nebula aboard the failing Benatar, healed Tony's injuries, and prepared to bring him back to Earth.

• Josen offered to bring Tony Stark back after Captain America shared the coordinates, and he set off immediately.
• After more than ten days aboard the Benatar, Tony and Nebula spotted a meteor approaching their ship.
• Josen appeared outside the ship, entered, and told Tony that someone had booked him a return ticket to Earth.
• Josen healed Tony's starvation, exhaustion, and stab wound with his Super Healing ability.
• Nebula aimed her pistol at Josen, but Tony stopped her and praised Josen's healing.

Josen brought Tony Stark and Nebula back to Earth, where the Avengers welcomed Tony home and learned more about Thanos. The chapter left the heroes furious at Thanos’s plan to retire after killing half the universe and determined not to let him escape justice.

• Tony thanked Josen for treating him and agreed to pay for the rescue as Josen opened a portal back to Earth.
• Josen carried the spaceship to the New Avengers Facility, where the Captain, Pepper Potts, and the other Avengers welcomed Tony and Nebula.
• Tony reunited with the Captain and Pepper, admitted he had failed to save Spider-Man, and insisted that Thanos had not hurt him.
• Nebula shared intelligence about Thanos, including his wish to retire to a farm after completing his plan.
• Thor and Rocket Raccoon declared that Thanos could not simply walk away after harming the universe.

After repairing the Benatar, the Avengers set out to confront Thanos, with Tony returning Captain America's restored shield. On arrival at an unfamiliar planet, Josen recognized a cosmic energy wave that looked like a Snap and went ahead to investigate.

• Nebula joined the Avengers in seeking revenge on Thanos, and Josen was accepted into the group.
• Tony, Nebula, Rocket Raccoon, and Dr. Banner repaired the Benatar, giving the Avengers a ship capable of interstellar travel.
• Tony returned Captain America's restored Vibranium Shield, and the Avengers boarded the Benatar to pursue Thanos.
• Rocket Raccoon piloted the Avengers through a jump point to an unfamiliar planet, where a powerful energy wave swept past the ship.
• Josen suspected the wave resembled a Snap, used Instant Transmission to scout the planet, and Thor warned the others that the energy felt like Thanos's last Snap.

Josen and the Avengers confronted the badly injured Thanos on his farm, where Josen battered him and Thor severed his gauntlet-bearing arm. Tony then approached the Infinity Gauntlet to use it to bring back the vanished, but his heart sank when he saw it up close.

• Josen sensed Thanos weakening on the planet and noticed a mysterious individual escape into space.
• Rocket Raccoon brought the Benatar down to the planet, and Josen led the Avengers toward Thanos's farm.
• Josen punched Thanos through his cottage and repeatedly struck him while Thor and Iron Man Tony caught up.
• Josen restrained Thanos with chakra chains, and Thor cut off the arm wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Tony landed beside the fallen gauntlet and turned it faceup, then his heart sank.

The Avengers learned that Thanos had destroyed the Infinity Stones, and Thor killed him after Nebula confirmed he was telling the truth. Josen gained Thanos’s powers as an SSR ability card and, as the devastated Avengers prepared to leave, suggested that things were not yet at their worst.

• Thanos told Tony Stark and the Avengers that he had destroyed all six Infinity Stones, and Nebula confirmed that her father did not lie.
• Thor killed Thanos with his axe, and Josen dispelled the Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Josen obtained the Eternity Titan SSR ability card and absorbed its powers, greatly enhancing his body, mind, and energy control.
• Josen urged the disheartened Avengers to cheer up, prompting an angry look from Thor.

After Thor angrily confronted Josen, Josen demonstrated his power by destroying the moon, leaving the Avengers stunned and Thor calm. He then brought up quantum mechanics and a possible plan, while the Avengers later waited at their compound for him to return.

• Thor accused Josen of making flippant remarks and struggled against Steve and Iron Man as the Avengers tried to restrain him.
• Josen fired an energy beam that destroyed the moon, triggering devastating changes to the planet’s tides, weather, and ecosystem.
• Thor and the Avengers were shocked by Josen’s display, and Josen taunted Thor until the fight subsided.
• Josen asked whether the Avengers knew about quantum mechanics, prompting Tony Stark to ask if he planned to build a time machine.
• At the new Avengers Compound, the group waited for Josen while Thor worried about the moon, and Black Widow reminded him Earth had only one.

Josen brought the Quantum Shuttle to the Avengers and used it to retrieve Scott Lang from the Quantum Realm. After Captain America explained what had happened, Scott learned that Hope, Dr. Pym, and his wife had vanished in Thanos’s snap.

• Thor noticed Josen arriving, and Josen dismissed his Dark Superman Suit before revealing that he had brought back a machine.
• Josen summoned an old van, which Tony Stark and Dr. Banner identified as a modified device capable of shrinking people to enter the Quantum Realm.
• Josen pressed the Quantum Shuttle’s start button, opening a passage that ejected Scott Lang onto the lawn.
• Scott recognized the Avengers and introduced himself to Captain America, who explained the events of the past half month.
• Scott learned that Hope, Dr. Pym, and Dr. Pym’s wife had turned to ash while he was trapped in the Quantum Realm.

Josen explained that time passed differently in the Quantum Realm, giving the Avengers a way to travel through time and rescue the vanished. The team built a Quantum Shuttle and prepared to acquire the Stones, while Josen promised to help Dr. Banner reconcile with Hulk; Tony said the machine was almost finished.

• Josen told Scott that fifteen days had passed in reality during what Scott thought had been only a few minutes in the Quantum Realm.
• Steve, Tony Stark, and Dr. Banner realized they could use the Quantum Realm to travel through time, and Tony and Dr. Banner began developing a machine to send multiple people there.
• After three days, Tony Stark and Dr. Banner set up a large Quantum Shuttle, while Steve led the Avengers in planning how to acquire the Stones without involving Hawkeye.
• Josen offered to help Dr. Banner resolve his conflict with Hulk, who had withdrawn after Thanos defeated him.
• Tony Stark brought a mechanical arm to the base and installed it on the Quantum Shuttle, saying the machine was almost finished.

Tony, Josen, Banner, and the Avengers prepared for their time heist, then traveled to 2012 New York to retrieve three Infinity Stones. The chapter ended as the team faced their missions, including persuading the Ancient One to surrender the Time Stone.

• Tony insisted that the robotic arm prototype needed a better paint job, then toasted with Josen and Banner to collecting the stones.
• The captain reminded the Avengers that each team had only enough Pym Particles for one round trip and urged them to check their equipment.
• Josen reminded Natasha to retrieve the Orb and return promptly, and Natasha teased that Steve and Tony might get the wrong idea.
• The Avengers activated the quantum time machine and traveled through the Quantum Tunnel to 2012 New York.
• Banner watched his past self smash Chitauri soldiers, while Josen joked about bringing back Banner's savage side.
• The captain identified the Mind Stone, Space Stone, and Time Stone as the three stones in New York, noting that the Ancient One would be the hardest challenge.

Josen secretly cleared most of the Chitauri forces and destroyed Leviathans while the Avengers fought in New York, then confronted Loki on Stark Tower. He left Loki facing an imposing opponent as he tried to expand the portal.

• Josen split from the Avengers and used a psychic shockwave to wipe out most of the Chitauri soldiers.
• The Avengers noticed that enemy numbers had fallen, and Captain America urged the team to keep fighting.
• Josen destroyed several Leviathans and prepared to attack the Chitauri mothership through the portal.
• Loki decided to increase the portal's output, but Josen stopped him on the Stark Tower rooftop.
• Josen released Loki and challenged him to try to make him suffer.

Josen blocked Loki’s Mind Scepter, beat him unconscious, and gained the Frost Physique card. He used his new Freeze Breath and Shadow Clones to wipe out the Chitauri forces near the portal, then flew toward their mothership as its command room went into chaos.

• Loki tried to control Josen with the Mind Scepter, but Josen’s force field stopped it.
• Josen slammed Loki into the rooftop floor and left him unconscious, then added the Frost Physique card to his abilities.
• Josen tested Freeze Breath by freezing Chitauri soldiers and their flying vehicles as they came through the portal.
• Josen crossed into deep space and sent Shadow Clones to destroy Leviathan warships and cut down Chitauri soldiers with Heat Vision.
• Josen headed toward the Chitauri Mothership while its commander watched the battle turn one-sided.

Josen destroyed the Chitauri command crew and mothership, then rescued the 2012 Tony Stark as the Avengers closed the portal on Earth. Loki woke and protested that the shutdown would ruin his bid to rule the Nine Realms.

• Josen killed the Chitauri general and commanders after they refused to take him to Thanos, then collected their souls as cards and draws.
• Josen destroyed the Chitauri Mothership and caught the 2012 Tony Stark after he emerged through the portal with a nuclear missile.
• The 2012 Tony Stark passed out after seeing the mothership explode and privately claimed that Earth had defeated a weak civilization.
• The main-timeline Tony Stark, disguised as a S.H.I.E.L.D. operative among Hydra agents, was invited to shower by one of them.
• The Avengers saw the mothership explode, and the captain ordered Black Widow to shut down the portal.
• Loki woke from the crater and protested that the Avengers were stopping his plan to become king of the Nine Realms.