Chapter Summaries

Josen traveled to Thanos’s location after sending Tony back through the portal, then provoked the Titan by exposing his secret love for Death. The chapter ended with Thanos attacking Josen and Josen stopping his blade with one hand.

• Hulk grabbed Loki and smashed him into the ground, while Captain America and Thor realized Tony was falling without power and needed to be caught.
• Josen sent Tony through the portal with a healing spell, then used his Shadow Clones’ work to locate Thanos.
• Thanos listened as The Other reported the Chitauri’s defeat, but Josen arrived and blasted The Other’s head apart.
• Josen mocked Thanos over his crimes and guessed that he planned to kill half the universe to win Death’s favor, and Thanos’s reaction confirmed it.
• Thanos charged Josen with his Tyrant’s Cleaver, but Josen caught the blade barehanded and called him pathetic.

Josen transformed into the Blue Beast of the Hidden Leaf of the Z City Police Station and overwhelmed Thanos in battle. He left Thanos grievously wounded and restrained him with Adamantine Sealing Chains.

• Thanos attacked Josen with his Tyrant's Cleaver and Cosmic Energy, but Josen dodged and slapped him across the face.
• Josen activated his time abilities and opened the seven gates, unleashing a vast surge of Chakra by the Ton that dispersed Thanos's energy beam.
• Josen transformed into his blue-haired form, broke Thanos's Tyrant's Cleaver, and nearly froze him with Freeze Breath.
• Josen battered Thanos with Consecutive Normal Punches: Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack and sent him crashing into a meteorite.
• Josen pierced Thanos's wounds with Adamantine Sealing Chains, sealing his rapidly rising vitality.

Josen defeated Thanos and brought him to Gamora, then destroyed Sanctuary II and Thanos’ army. F-kid harvested the resulting souls to make a huge number of Outrider cards.

• Josen bound the dying Thanos with Adamantine Sealing Chains and took him through a Dimensional Gateway to Sanctuary II.
• Josen used Instant Transmission to enter Gamora’s room, bound her with golden chains, and revealed her captive father.
• Ebony Maw led Outriders to surround the room, but Josen killed him with Heat Vision.
• Josen fired a Final Flash that destroyed Sanctuary II and annihilated Thanos’ army.
• F-kid used Fantasy Time and Fate Draw to create over a hundred thousand Outrider cards.

Josen brought the restrained Thanos and Gamora to Vormir to seek the Soul Stone, where Red Skull explained that it required a soul in exchange for a soul. Josen revealed that Thanos loved Gamora and showed her a vision of her fate, leaving her shaken as Thanos demanded to know what he had done.

• Josen took Thanos and Gamora through a Dimensional Gateway to Vormir in 2012.
• Josen snapped the group to Vormir’s summit, where Red Skull recognized Thanos and Gamora and explained that the Soul Stone was there.
• Red Skull told them the Soul Stone required them to lose someone they cherished, and Josen freed Thanos and Gamora from their restraints.
• Gamora challenged the exchange, saying Thanos loved no one, but Josen told her that she was the person he loved most.
• Josen touched Gamora’s forehead and showed her a vision of her own death in Avengers: Infinity War, leaving her stunned and Thanos furious.

Josen killed Thanos and helped Gamora obtain the Soul Stone through the planet’s sacrificial magic, then sealed the Stone in a Fantasy Card. After strengthening Gamora, he took her to an advanced alien civilization and left her free to choose what to do next.

• Josen threw Thanos into the abyss, then killed him with blasts from his eyes as Gamora grieved for her father.
• The sacrifice ritual recognized Gamora’s feelings for Thanos, and the orange energy transported her away before returning her from the pool of souls.
• Josen took the Soul Stone from Gamora and sealed it inside a Fantasy Card, intending to use it to address the Snap in the main timeline.
• Josen freed Gamora from the Adamantine Sealing Chains and used the Potential Unlocking Technique to greatly increase her strength and energy.
• Josen used Instant Transmission to bring Gamora to an interstellar civilization and left her there to decide what to do.

Josen watched the Avengers recover the Tesseract and Mind Scepter before the Ancient One confronted him over his presence in the multiverse. Her attempt to knock him out failed, and Josen faked the result with F-kid, leaving her unimpressed.

• Gamora stepped toward the city after arriving there, while Josen returned to Earth and found the Avengers with the injured Loki.
• Thor took Loki back to Asgard, and Serpent S.H.I.E.L.D. collected the Tesseract and Mind Scepter.
• Tony disguised himself as a Hydra operative, took the Tesseract, and knocked its escort unconscious.
• Captain America used a fake Hydra greeting to get the Mind Scepter from Rumlow and the other Hydra agents.
• The Ancient One confronted Josen and struck him with an Astral Projection Palm, but his defenses resisted the blow.
• Josen pretended to be knocked out and sent F-kid flying from his body as a fake astral form, leaving the Ancient One doubtful.

Josen joined the Power Stone retrieval team in 2014 after secretly taking Pym Particles from a military base, warning the team that Thanos and the Nebula of that timeline were active. He agreed with Ant-Man’s suggestion to fight Thanos if he came to them.

• After the Ancient One left, Josen regrouped with Tony Stark, the Captain, and Dr. Banner, who showed off the Tesseract, Mind Scepter, Soul Stone, and Time Stone.
• Josen gave the Captain a storage box for the Soul Stone and stayed behind to join the other retrieval teams, worried that the two Nebulas could share information.
• Josen traveled to 2014 and stole all twelve vials of Pym Particles from a guarded military base, prompting someone there to shout, “Who the fuck did this?”
• Josen joined Natasha, War Machine, Ant-Man, and Nebula’s team, claiming he had killed Thanos in another timeline and warning that he would be trouble if Josen had not come.
• Nebula explained that Thanos, Gamora, and her past self were also seeking the Infinity Stones, and Ant-Man suggested letting Josen fight Thanos again.
• Josen praised Ant-Man’s idea and said Thanos could come to them if he wanted to die.

Josen and the team reached Morag to retrieve the Power Stone, but Nebula’s memories revealed that Thanos had discovered their mission. Josen protected her from the intrusion and took the Orb through its laser barrier, leaving the group ready to deal with the danger ahead.

• Natasha restored the Benatar to full size, and Nebula piloted the team to Morag.
• Nebula led the team to a ruined temple, where Scott shrank and unlocked the doors through the keyhole.
• As the group approached the Orb, Thanos and Ebony Maw invaded Nebula’s memories and discovered the future team’s search for the Infinity Stones.
• Josen shielded Nebula with his Biomagnetic Field and helped her up, while she warned that Thanos had discovered them.
• Josen reached through the high-energy laser barrier and retrieved the Orb without injury.

Josen and the Avengers recovered the Orb, then confronted Thanos’s Sanctuary II above the valley. Josen destroyed the ship with his Heat Vision, leaving Thanos and Gamora as the only visible survivors while the 2014 Nebula died.

• Josen explained the elephant-and-fridge joke while the group carried the Orb back toward the Benatar.
• Black Widow and the others encountered Star-Lord dancing and singing, and War Machine knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Nebula warned that Thanos had arrived, and Sanctuary II appeared overhead and fired a gravity beam at the group and their ship.
• Josen met the gravity beam with Heat Vision, then switched to Normal Mode and drove the unstable energy clash into Sanctuary II, destroying it along with the Black Order and its Outriders.
• Thanos forced his way off the exploding ship, and Gamora escaped after him while the 2014 Nebula died.

Josen killed Thanos and returned with the Avengers to the main timeline, where they assembled all six Infinity Stones into a replica gauntlet. As the team considered who could use it to restore the vanished lives, Dr. Banner volunteered to try.

• Josen defeated Thanos with a Normal Punch, buried his body, and confirmed that Gamora had survived with only superficial injuries.
• Josen and the others left the abandoned planet, while the unconscious Gamora and Star-Lord woke and saw each other.
• In the main timeline, the Avengers returned with all six Infinity Stones and began building a replica Infinity Gauntlet.
• Josen extracted the Space Stone and transformed the Aether into the Reality Stone, then the Avengers fitted all six stones into the gauntlet.
• Dr. Banner volunteered to use the gauntlet, reasoning that his body could withstand the stones' gamma radiation.

Josen took the Infinity Gauntlet and snapped his fingers, using its power to rewrite reality across the universe. He survived the backlash, but Black Panther’s confused call left the heroes uncertain about what had changed.

• Josen accepted the Infinity Gauntlet and absorbed its energy, reaching infinite levels of power and perception.
• Josen snapped his fingers while declaring himself Jojo, sending a wave of reality-altering light across the universe.
• Captain Marvel rushed toward Earth as the Infinity Power swept through space.
• Josen’s Energy Stellar Core absorbed the backlash and turned it into nourishment, leaving him unharmed.
• Black Panther called Steve Rogers and said everyone had disappeared when he woke up, leaving the heroes speechless.

After Josen reversed the Snap and returned the Infinity Gauntlet, the Avengers celebrated as their vanished friends came back. Captain Marvel arrived too late to help, and Doctor Strange returned through a portal with Spider-Man and the Guardians before asking Tony Stark to speak with him.

• Josen took off the Infinity Gauntlet and left it on the workbench, while the heroes celebrated the return of those lost to the Snap.
• Scott reported that Captain Marvel had arrived looking for Nick Fury, and Captain America and Natasha went out to greet her.
• Captain Marvel learned the crisis was over and said she had other planets to protect, leaving Captain America and Natasha unsure how to respond.
• Doctor Strange opened dimensional gateways, bringing Peter Parker and the Guardians of the Galaxy back to the Avengers Compound.
• Tony Stark embraced Peter Parker, while Rocket greeted the returned Guardians.
• Doctor Strange approached Tony Stark and said he needed to speak with him.

Doctor Strange warned the Avengers that a new, overwhelming enemy had arrived, and Josen recognized him as Infinity Ultron, a version of Ultron wielding all six Infinity Stones. Infinity Ultron shattered into their world with an army of robots and attacked the Avengers.

• Doctor Strange sensed a new threat and urged Tony Stark to gather humanity's forces as an icy voice announced that it had found their world.
• Josen recognized the voice as Fully Gemmed Ultron and prepared to intervene, while a purple-suited man turned the nanometal Infinity Gauntlet into a Fantasy Card and disappeared.
• A rift opened above the New Avengers Base, and Tony Stark identified the figure behind it as Ultron possessing Vision's body and carrying the Infinity Stones.
• Captain Marvel flew toward Ultron as he emerged through the shattered sky with a double-ended spear.
• Infinity Ultron sent a vast swarm of smaller Ultron Robots charging at the Avengers.

Captain Marvel, Josen, and the Avengers joined the battle against Infinity Ultron and his robot army at the New Avengers Base as Earth's forces arrived through Doctor Strange's portals. Wanda destroyed a large group of robots with Chaos Magic, while Steve Rogers faced a robot that grabbed him.

• Captain Marvel charged through the Ultron Robots and punched Infinity Ultron out of the sky, while Thor flew in to join the fight.
• Josen formed his black lightning suit and joined the heroes in attacking the robots as Drax called for a counterattack.
• Doctor Strange opened Dimensional Gateways, allowing Wong, Wakanda, and Earth's other forces to enter the battle.
• Groot reunited with Rocket, and Wanda recognized Infinity Ultron's red appearance before erasing incoming attacks and destroying a vast group of robots with Chaos Magic.
• Steve Rogers decapitated one Ultron Robot, then another grabbed him around the waist.

Josen rescued Peter Parker from a swarm of Ultron Robots during the final battle and explained that they might have met in a parallel universe. Their conversation ended as Josen pointed Peter toward the chaotic battlefield.

• Bucky freed Steve Rogers from an Ultron Robot, and they fought together against the surrounding robots.
• Infinity Ultron blasted Captain Marvel away, but she recovered and clashed with him in a fierce battle.
• Peter Parker activated Instant Kill mode against the Ultron Robots but drew so many enemies that they overwhelmed him.
• Josen charged in, destroyed the clustered robots, and carried Peter away from the fight.
• Peter apologized for attacking Josen, then felt his Spider-Sense react as he wondered where they had met.
• Josen told Peter they might have met in a parallel universe and pointed his attention toward the battlefield.

Josen unlocked Peter Parker’s potential, awakening his lightning powers and sending him back into the battle, where he devastated the Ultron Robots. Josen then used his Mantra to make the robot army destroy itself, leaving the heroes scrambling to avoid the falling wreckage.

• Josen activated his Potential Unlocking Technique on Peter Parker, greatly increasing his strength and awakening his ability to manipulate electricity.
• Peter Parker thanked Josen, then was hurled into the battlefield, where his electrified attack destroyed over a hundred Ultron Robots and helped turn the fight.
• Hawkeye and Black Widow noticed Spider-Man’s sudden strength and exchanged a smile as they fought side by side.
• Josen used his Mantra to disrupt the Ultron Robots, causing them to stop obeying Infinity Ultron.
• Infinity Ultron discovered that a strange magnetic field had severed his connection to the robot army, and the robots simultaneously blasted off their own heads.
• Rocket Raccoon warned the heroes that the falling robot wreckage could kill them, so they took cover behind magical barriers and Vibranium shields.

Infinity Ultron blasted Captain Marvel and Thor before Josen redirected Ultron’s Mind Beam and attacked him with Heat Vision. Josen then used a nanometal Infinity Gauntlet to match Ultron’s power and began battering him, leaving the fight between the two Infinity wielders unresolved.

• Infinity Ultron fired a Mind Beam that hurled Captain Marvel across the Pacific and blasted Thor underground, while Tony Stark avoided the attack by landing.
• Josen opened Dimensional Gateways to redirect Ultron’s Mind Beam back at him, then struck him with Heat Vision.
• Infinity Ultron used the Reality Stone to rewrite the surrounding space and time, nullifying Josen’s Heat Vision and repairing his armor.
• Josen used F-kid’s Stand ability and a golden card to summon a nanometal Infinity Gauntlet, becoming Infinity Josen.
• Josen shattered Ultron’s rewritten reality with an Infinity-powered punch and repeatedly smashed apart his helmet, while Ultron’s usual time and reality powers failed to affect him.

Josen overwhelmed Infinity Ultron with his Infinity-powered strength and Shadow Clones, but Ultron escaped into space. Back on Earth, Ultron’s wreckage reanimated and swarmed the heroes while massive mechanical forms began assembling.

• Josen outmatched Infinity Ultron, then created five Shadow Clones and used their coordinated attacks to batter him into deep space.
• Josen’s original body intercepted Ultron whenever he tried to escape with the Time Stone and returned him to the clones’ attacks.
• Thor and Captain Marvel arrived at the New Avengers Base, and Doctor Strange told them that Josen and Ultron had taken their fight into space.
• Josen returned as a Shadow Clone and told the heroes that the original had chased Ultron through a broken world barrier while he stayed behind to help.
• The destroyed Ultron Robots revived, assembled themselves from wreckage, and attacked the heroes as enormous mechanical masses began forming nearby.
• Captain Marvel rushed into space but found no enemy and sped off in pursuit.

Doctor Strange’s protective spell helped Earth’s forces withstand the zombie robots while the heroes fought back. The handsome Shadow Clone gave Captain America a lightning-powered Mjolnir, then tried to stop the robots with magnetic power before summoning vast, twisting vines.

• Doctor Strange surrounded Earth’s allied forces with protective golden magic, and Scarlet Witch, Thor, Spider-Man, and the Masters of the Mystic Arts destroyed large numbers of zombie robots.
• Captain America, Bucky, and Falcon struggled to keep up with the invasion, so the handsome Shadow Clone stole some of Thor’s divine thunder and shaped it into a new Mjolnir for Steve Rogers.
• Captain America wielded the new Mjolnir and charged into the mechanical zombie legion, while Thor reacted in shock to losing part of his power.
• The handsome Shadow Clone used Mantra to disrupt the Ultron Robots’ electromagnetic signals, but discovered that Infinity Ultron had updated them to resist magnetic fields.
• The handsome Shadow Clone summoned countless interwoven vines with Wood Release, startling heroes such as Tony Stark.

Heroes restrained the zombie robots with supernatural vines while Josen pursued Infinity Ultron through parallel universes. Interferer Uatu gathered Heroes to stop Ultron, but after seeing Josen nearly defeat him, Uatu identified Josen as an outsider who threatened the multiverse.

• The Shadow Clone's vines bound hundreds of thousands of zombie robots, while giant Ultron Robots trampled the vines and endangered nearby fighters.
• Josen chased Infinity Ultron across dozens of parallel universes, and their pursuit devastated landmarks and landscapes.
• Interferer Uatu gathered heroes from different universes in a tavern to form a team against Infinity Ultron.
• Thor suggested that the gathered Heroes could go home after seeing Josen overwhelm Ultron on the tavern's television.
• Interferer Uatu declared that Josen was an unknown outsider and an unstable factor that needed to be corrected.