Chapter Summaries

Su Ming negotiated with Taneleer Tivan to trade rare goods for the dog and the Collector’s help contacting three Elders about Odin. Tivan accepted the exchange after Su Ming added enough unusual items to keep his collection’s total unchanged, and began contacting the Elders.

• Su Ming offered Taneleer Tivan black mud from the Black Mud Monster in exchange for the dog and information about Odin.
• Tivan agreed to trade the dog but balked at also spending favors with the Observer, Trader, and Thinker.
• Su Ming added a Necrons control console, a Peacebloom, and Polyjuice Potion to balance the number of items exchanged.
• Tivan inspected the new goods, watched a maid transform after drinking the potion, and eagerly accepted the deal.
• Tivan used a device to contact the Observer, Trader, and Thinker for Su Ming.

Su Ming gathered several Elders Of The Universe to help locate Odin and the enemy he was hunting, while rejecting Trader’s offer to buy Earth. He left Collector’s shop with Daisy and Cosmo, still considering how to deal with Trader.

• Su Ming used Collector and Grandmaster to contact Surveyor, Trader, and Thinker, whose abilities he hoped would help find Odin and his quarry.
• Trader offered Su Ming a planetary system and technological support in exchange for Earth, but Su Ming refused because Earth was too valuable and vulnerable to abandon.
• Su Ming began a meeting with the Elders Of The Universe to discuss finding Odin and the enemy Odin was pursuing.
• After the meeting, Su Ming left Collector’s museum with Daisy and Cosmo, and Daisy guessed that he intended to kill Trader.
• Su Ming reassured Cosmo that he would not eat him, listing several ways he could prepare the dog, which left Cosmo trembling.

Su Ming and Daisy traveled with Cosmo back toward Earth, then emerged near Odin’s fleet after tracking him to the Featherfall Sector. Su Ming concluded that a hidden enemy had lured Odin away from Asgard and hoped Odin would remain calm until he arrived.

• Daisy comforted Cosmo and accepted Su Ming’s offer to give her the Psionic dog, while Strangle showed jealousy.
• Su Ming and Daisy traveled through a long spatial jump, fed Cosmo, and reached a fleet in the Featherfall Sector.
• Su Ming explained that the Elders Of The Universe had traced Odin and Freyr toward the M'Kraan Crystal, which could have created Black Mud.
• Su Ming reasoned that an unknown enemy had used Vulcan and the Shi'ar Civil War to draw him and Daisy away from Earth, leaving Asgard exposed.
• Su Ming suspected Odin was pursuing a Black Mud tool rather than the true mastermind and hoped Odin would not use his last desperate chance before Su Ming arrived.

Su Ming returned to the Shi'ar Palace Ship and asked Gladiator to arrange a meeting with Lilandra, intending to enlist her help in finding the M'Kraan Crystal. He learned that Charles and Lilandra were discussing marriage, and left the palace corridors after hinting that his request involved the wedding venue.

• Su Ming arrived at the Shi'ar Palace Ship with Daisy and Cosmo, and Gladiator guided them inside to meet Lilandra.
• Gladiator explained that Lilandra had lifted the ban on art and that he had begun practicing music and dancing.
• Gladiator told Su Ming that Deathbird's memories of Vulcan had been altered, and Su Ming agreed not to bring up anything that could restore them.
• Gladiator revealed that Charles and Lilandra had begun discussing marriage, prompting Daisy to ask about attending the wedding.
• Su Ming told Gladiator that he needed Lilandra's help with something related to the royal wedding venue.

Deathstroke returned to Lilandra’s banquet and explained that Vulcan had been controlled, then asked for the M'Kraan Crystal’s location so he could stop the threat. Lilandra trusted him and revealed that the Crystal was in a place called “World.”

• Gladiator left Deathstroke and Daisy at the dining hall and returned to command headquarters.
• Deathstroke recounted his discoveries to Lilandra, Charles, and the others, then asked where the M'Kraan Crystal was located.
• Charles and Lilandra embraced and kissed before agreeing to trust Deathstroke with the Crystal’s location.
• Lilandra revealed that the M'Kraan Crystal was located in a place called “World.”

Lilandra explained the M'Kraan Crystal's unpredictable powers and the dangers of entering it, while Su Ming revealed that Black Hand was pursuing it with Vulcan and Odin. Lilandra agreed to take Su Ming's chosen group to World, leaving Charles behind as they prepared to depart.

• Lilandra explained that the M'Kraan Crystal could alter reality, transport people unpredictably, and drive them mad, while Phoenix could not be affected by it.
• Su Ming warned Lilandra that Black Hand had learned about the Crystal, used it to create the Black Mud Monster, and was leading Odin toward it.
• Lilandra agreed to take Su Ming to World and asked whom he wanted to bring.
• Su Ming chose Daisy and Jean Grey, while Shadowcat volunteered to go and Emma kept quiet.
• Charles offered to accompany them, but Su Ming said Cosmo was more useful and told him to rest.

Su Ming and the others accompanied Lilandra to a guarded royal garden in Featherfall, where she revealed a hidden portal leading to the M'Kraan Crystal. The group entered the portal at Lilandra’s invitation to see the Twin Gods’ treasure.

• Jean Grey worried that Scott’s changed behavior might be a side effect of his memory alteration, but Su Ming blamed his distraction on the banquet’s meatballs.
• Su Ming’s threat about dog meatballs frightened Cosmo into silence, while Jean and Daisy bonded over their comfort with Psionics.
• Lilandra led Su Ming, Daisy, Jean Grey, and Cosmo to a forest park near Featherfall, where Gladiator had the Royal Guard clear the grounds.
• Lilandra explained that the park was a royal wedding venue and that it contained a spatial entrance to the M'Kraan Crystal.
• Lilandra unlocked a hidden portal beneath the turf, stepped through it, and invited the others to follow her to the M'Kraan Crystal.

Su Ming and his companions traveled through a Shi'ar Stargate to the destroyed Macallan Homeworld, where Lilandra revealed that the wedding crystal there was an imitation. She opened a hidden gate inside it, and the group entered a strange space containing the real crystal, which Su Ming began to examine for signs of tampering.

• Su Ming and his companions passed through a Stargate and arrived on the ruined Macallan Homeworld.
• Su Ming recognized the planet as the Death Star destroyed by the Shi'ar Empire and identified the pink crystal as a fake.
• Lilandra explained that the Shi'ar royal family used an imitation crystal at weddings after the real one had caused the emperor and empress to die.
• Lilandra inserted her key into the platform, transforming the fake crystal into a Stargate.
• Su Ming, Daisy, Jean Grey, and Cosmo entered a strange space where Su Ming identified the points of light as Single Universes.
• Su Ming sent Strangle's tendrils toward the real crystal to search for signs that someone had been there.

Su Ming investigated the M'Kraan Crystal's chamber and discovered that Odin and an unknown enemy had likely been transported together after touching the crystal. He secured a Multiversal passage back to the chamber and prepared to search for Odin.

• Strangle found fresh palm prints on the crystal, and Su Ming concluded that creatures touching it while in contact could be transported as one.
• Su Ming assured Daisy that they could return and explained that their universe had become Multiversal, while Jean taught Daisy about parallel worlds.
• Cosmo found a drop of blood beneath the crystal's base, and Strangle identified it as Aesir blood that was likely Odin's.
• Su Ming teleported away to prepare, then returned through a door and removed it from the invisible wall.
• Su Ming told Daisy the door would let them return wherever the crystal sent them and said Sepulk was already working to find Odin.

Su Ming tested Crystal’s teleportation with Jean, Daisy, Cosmo, and Strangle, successfully reaching the City of Sephiroth before using That Door to visit Ambush Bug. He then returned to Crystal and prepared to teleport the group to wherever Odin was in the 40K Universe.

• Su Ming wrapped himself, Jean, Daisy, and Cosmo in energy and had Strangle touch Crystal while wishing to go to the City of Sephiroth in the 40K Universe.
• The group arrived safely outside the City of Sephiroth, where a guard who recognized Deathstroke called off the armed birdlike guards.
• Su Ming used That Door to take the group to Ambush Bug, who complained that Deathstroke had gone on a Multiversal-level adventure without him.
• Ambush Bug reported that the Batmen had not yet faced off and that the Justice League was cleaning up the damage across the universe.
• Su Ming fed Ambush Bug braised eggs, left through That Door with the others, and had Strangle touch Crystal again to wish for Odin’s location in the 40K Universe.

Su Ming, Daisy, and Jean searched for Odin by traveling through the M'Kraan Crystal, first landing in Mephisto’s Hell and then in a parallel New York. When a powerful local hero attacked Su Ming, Su Ming recognized him as Superman and struck back, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Su Ming and his companions arrived in Mephisto’s Hell, where Mephisto recognized Su Ming but refused to make a deal involving Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force.
• Su Ming’s group returned to the corridor and used the M'Kraan Crystal again, arriving on the Empire State Building in a parallel New York.
• Su Ming identified the city as a world without familiar landmarks such as Stark Tower and the Baxter Building, and waited for local authorities to notice them.
• A yellow streak struck Su Ming and carried him into lunar orbit, where Su Ming recognized his attacker as Superman from Earth-712.
• Su Ming drove a knee into Superman’s chest, summoned the Godslayer two-handed warhammer, and charged at him.

Su Ming exploited Hyperion’s emotional weakness to knock him from Mars into Jupiter, then followed up with another devastating blow. Hyperion remained battered inside Jupiter as Su Ming prepared to continue the one-sided fight.

• Su Ming identified Hyperion’s vulnerability to the name “Martha” and used Cosmic Energy to make him hear it.
• Hyperion lost focus, and Su Ming struck him with warhammer, sending him through Mars and into Jupiter.
• Su Ming explained that Hyperion’s adoptive mother was named Martha and that Nighthawk had once used the same revelation to reconcile with him.
• Su Ming repeated the name while Hyperion drifted out of Jupiter, then hit him in the forehead with a spiked mace.
• Su Ming’s blow tore a vast hole through Jupiter’s center as Hyperion remained helpless.

Su Ming defeated Hyperion by blasting Pluto apart, then approached the unconscious Eternal with the Lasso of Truth. He planned to question Hyperion and continue searching for Odin, while considering how to develop his power further.

• Su Ming searched Pluto after Strangle pointed out where Hyperion had landed, then prepared another Cosmic Energy attack.
• Su Ming blasted Pluto apart with a massive sphere of Cosmic Energy and redirected the planet’s debris away from Earth.
• Su Ming spotted Hyperion floating unconscious among Pluto’s fragments and reflected on experimenting with his powers in the parallel universe.
• Su Ming flew toward Hyperion as Godslayer transformed into the Lasso of Truth, intending to question him while continuing the search for Odin.

Su Ming captured Hyperion and returned to New York, where he stopped Phoenix from killing Squadron Supreme after they attacked Daisy and Cosmo. He asked Daisy and Cosmo to explain what had happened while he was away.

• Su Ming wrapped the unconscious Hyperion in Strangle, ordered the symbiote to keep him alive and search his mind for intelligence, then headed for Earth.
• Su Ming posed for a photo with the captive Hyperion for Ambush Bug and promised him material about a future collision between parallel worlds.
• On the Empire State Building rooftop, Su Ming found Daisy and Cosmo surrounded by unconscious Squadron Supreme members while Phoenix held one of them.
• Su Ming stopped Phoenix from killing the captive and persuaded her to leave the team alone because he still needed them.
• Phoenix flew off to hunt, and Su Ming asked Daisy or Cosmo to explain what had happened.

After the Squadron Supreme attacked the visitors from another dimension, Su Ming and his allies captured several members and decided to use them as bargaining chips. A general arrived by helicopter and offered Su Ming the governorship of New York State.

• Daisy explained that the Squadron Supreme had attacked her and Jean Grey after Hyperion had hurled another intruder into space.
• Cosmo immobilized the Squadron Supreme with his psionic power, but Speed Demon knocked Jean unconscious, allowing the Phoenix to erupt and defeat the team.
• Su Ming returned with Hyperion captured and concluded that they needed to find Nighthawk to get information.
• Su Ming told Daisy they would hold the captured heroes and trade them for a good price.
• A general descended from a helicopter at the Empire State Building and offered Su Ming the governorship of New York State.

Su Ming refused the military’s offer to buy Squadron Supreme’s captured members and tested the fat general with a bizarre question. After the general gave the answer Su Ming wanted, Su Ming revealed that he knew the man was Nighthawk and stopped him from leaving.

• Su Ming rejected the fat general’s offer of New York’s governorship and questioned him about what the military planned to do with the captives.
• The general admitted that the military intended to dissect the captured Superheroes for research.
• Su Ming challenged the general to answer a question about Squadron Supreme and Nick Fury, promising to hand over the captives if he answered correctly.
• The general concluded that Nick Fury would die whenever Su Ming wanted him to, and Su Ming accepted his answer.
• As the general invited Su Ming and the others onto the plane, Su Ming identified him as Nighthawk and blocked his escape with an electrified Golden Greatsword.

Su Ming exposed Nighthawk’s disguise and explained how he had spotted the deception, then used Phoenix’s overwhelming power to persuade Nighthawk that negotiation was preferable to conflict. The chapter ended with Nighthawk agreeing to hear Su Ming’s terms for trading for the captives.

• Su Ming revealed that he had recognized Nighthawk’s disguise from its clues and exposed the explosives hidden in his shoes.
• Nighthawk tore off his fat suit, and Su Ming identified himself as Deathstroke and explained that he was a detective.
• Daisy and Mjolnir God argued with Nighthawk, while Su Ming warned Daisy that Nighthawk was trying to provoke her into drawing her hammer.
• Su Ming released Hyperion to build Nighthawk’s confidence, and Phoenix returned after consuming the Life Energy of more than a dozen planets.
• Phoenix reverted to Jean Grey, and Su Ming told Nighthawk they could negotiate for his captured companions.
• Nighthawk denied having friends but agreed to hear Su Ming’s terms.

Odin battled an undying monster that could take the forms and memories of the dead, including his father Bor. He discovered the creature could only transform into souls who died during the Second God War or earlier, but it continued attacking him.

• Odin fought the monster in a ruined region of space, insisting it was not his father Bor.
• The monster revealed itself as an incarnation of hatred and threatened to kill Odin’s loved ones before tormenting him.
• Odin kept the creature occupied so it could not reach Thor and Loki, while relying on an arrangement for Frigga to seek help from Deathstroke if Asgard fell into danger.
• When the monster failed to transform into Tyr, Odin deduced that it could only take the forms of souls who died during the Second God War or earlier.
• The monster abandoned Tyr’s form, became Odin’s mother Bestla, and swung a club at him.

Deathstroke forced Nighthawk to provide the Watchtower’s cosmic observation data, which revealed Odin and a powerful shapeshifting monster had fled into Earth-721. After the group reached Iceland, Deathstroke studied the footage and prepared to track the monster.

• Deathstroke threatened to sell Zarda to the Kree and cut off Hyperion’s leg unless Nighthawk shared the Watchtower’s data, and Nighthawk agreed.
• Nighthawk searched the Watchtower records for an old white-bearded man and the monster pursuing him, then Deathstroke transported the group to Iceland.
• The footage showed Odin and the monster fighting near Neptune before pursuing each other out of the Solar System.
• Deathstroke concluded the monster could transform into beings whose abilities it used and suspected someone who had made a wish through Crystal was behind the incident.
• Nighthawk took Squadron Supreme away, while Deathstroke used Odin’s fur blanket to prepare to locate the fugitives.

Deathstroke took Jean Grey, Daisy, and Cosmo to Neptune to investigate the site where Odin fought an enemy and search for clues. Cosmo found a leafy branch in the storm’s eye, and Deathstroke prepared to judge whether it was evidence Odin had left behind.

• Su Ming listened to Nighthawk’s conversation with Butler using a bug planted on Power Princess, then told Jean Grey that he planned to follow Odin’s trail to Neptune.
• Su Ming, Jean Grey, Daisy, and Cosmo watched Pluto’s fragments create a blue meteor shower on Neptune before heading for the Great Dark Spot.
• Su Ming wrapped Daisy, Jean Grey, and Cosmo in Strangle’s Vibranium shells and carried them through the ice crystal storm to the calm eye, where signs of battle remained.
• Su Ming sent Cosmo to retrieve anything out of place and offered him luncheon meat as a reward.
• Cosmo returned with a small leafy branch for Su Ming to examine.