Chapter Summaries

At Odin’s farewell gathering, he declined Mjolnir and accepted Hela as his successor while discussing Asgard’s future with Daisy. After Odin died, Frigga began the funeral rites, and Loki slipped away using a magical duplicate.

• Daisy offered Mjolnir to Odin, but he said he no longer needed it and explained that he valued his warriors’ survival over battlefield glory.
• Odin told Daisy he had accepted Deathstroke’s choice and suggested Hela was the ideal successor.
• Hela arrived, spoke privately with Odin, then asked Daisy about Yggdrasil and learned of the Skrull invasion.
• Thor and Loki returned with Gungnir and reported that Odin had died, turning into starlight that dispersed in the wind.
• Frigga began the funeral revelry, while Loki left a magical duplicate and hid his true body.

Tony, Spider-Man, and Fury discussed the Skrull threat and concluded that Deathstroke had likely killed the original Alien terrorist. Fury sent Tony and Spider-Man to find the Skrulls impersonating Captain America and rescue the real Captain, beginning with an apartment on Little Forest Hill.

• Spider-Man worried that Skrulls disguised as humans could be anywhere, and Fury said Coulson's team would join the hunt.
• Tony questioned why they were targeting Skrulls when the investigation had begun with a nuclear plant bombing, and Fury connected the case to online videos featuring Deadpool and Deathstroke.
• Tony concluded that Deathstroke had probably killed the terrorist, while Fury revealed his suspicion that Skrulls had kidnapped Captain America and his teammates.
• Tony ordered Jarvis to use traffic-camera facial recognition and revoke the suspected Skrulls' access to Stark properties.
• Coulson joined Tony and Spider-Man, and they set out for the apartment on Little Forest Hill where traffic cameras had last spotted the impostors.

Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Coulson investigated the room where the Skrulls had ambushed Captain America’s team and found a young girl hiding nearby. Meanwhile, Deathstroke’s group arrived on Xandar, where Star-Lord and Gamora prepared to take their guests onward while the rest stayed aboard the ship.

• Tony reconstructed the ambush and found that Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow had missed their attacks, while Falcon and Bucky had not resisted effectively.
• Coulson examined a dead mouse killed by Natasha’s stray bullet, and Tony identified a girl who had escaped through the window during the ambush.
• Coulson spotted the dirt-smudged girl hiding beneath a van and praised her for escaping the aliens.
• After the ship’s repeated jumps left Elsa dizzy, she knocked herself out of her body and returned to it, startling Rocket Raccoon.
• Star-Lord landed the ship on Xandar and said the Nova Corps kept the planet comfortable and unchanged.
• Star-Lord and Gamora prepared to take their guests onward, while Rocket Raccoon, Drax, and Groot stayed aboard to watch the ship.

Su Ming and the Guardians arrived on Xandar and discussed the planet’s sprawling trade, its merchants, and the Nova Corps as they made their way through a chaotic cargo dock. Star-Lord agreed to take Su Ming to meet Yondu and his regular buyer, hinting that the woman might be interested in Yondu.

• Merchants crowded Deathstroke and Star-Lord after the spacecraft landed, but Star-Lord sent them away by claiming the cargo had already been ordered.
• Su Ming asked whether anyone would fence stolen goods on Xandar, and Star-Lord explained that the planet could handle enormous hauls that other markets could not.
• Star-Lord, Gamora, and Carol discussed the dangers of the Nova Corps and recalled their experiences in alien prisons.
• Su Ming ended the conversation and asked Star-Lord to take him to Yondu.
• Star-Lord checked for patrolling police drones and said Yondu had a regular buyer, whom he suspected was interested in him.

Star-Lord led Su Ming and the others to Xandar’s black market, explaining how its legal loopholes enabled illicit trade. They found Yondu trapped in the arms of Lady Tenderness, whose embrace broke his back again.

• Star-Lord explained how Xandar’s black market used certificates, middlemen, and gifts to disguise the sale of stolen goods.
• Su Ming considered routing bulk transactions through Contraxia, but Star-Lord said its population was too small to compete with Xandar.
• Star-Lord brought the group to the manager’s suite, where they found Yondu being embraced and fed drinks by Lady Tenderness.
• Yondu’s back cracked, and he shouted for Star-Lord to rescue him again.

Su Ming met Yondu to discuss terms, while Wanda brought Deadpool back to the Mutant island, where a man from the future proved his claim and hired him for a killing. Deadpool left with Cable for New York, while the Mutants remained uncertain about Cable’s full story.

• Star-Lord introduced Deathstroke, Carol, and Elsa to Yondu, then Su Ming revealed his identity and said he had come to discuss terms.
• Phoenix and Wanda spotted Deadpool begging in Huaxi Village, and Wanda teleported him back to the Mutants’ island, Utopia.
• Cable proved his claim to Charles and Erik by predicting Deadpool’s arrival, though they remained cautious about believing everything he said.
• Cable offered Deadpool one hundred thousand US Dollars to kill someone, and Deadpool accepted.
• Cable gave Deadpool a Teleportation Belt and took him to New York.

Cable recruited Deadpool to kill Bolivar Trask in New York, while Hela settled into a vacation with Daisy and talked about the burdens of ruling Asgard. The chapter ended when crazed laughter outside interrupted them and Thor went to investigate.

• Cable took Deadpool to a New York rooftop and explained that the Timeline had changed, allowing them to have fought together in World War II across other Time Points.
• Cable hired Deadpool for thirty thousand dollars to kill Bolivar Trask, whose Sentinel Robots threatened the future of Mutants.
• Hela returned to New York with Daisy while Loki went back to Asgard to govern, and Hela played a game on Daisy’s console.
• Hela told Daisy that becoming All-Father had proved more burdensome than ruling the dead and teased her about her feelings for Deathstroke.
• Crazed laughter approached from outside, prompting Thor to go to the window as Hela’s amusement turned to anger.

Hela mistook Green Goblin for a Skrull and killed him, then learned from Daisy that she had attacked Spider-Man’s enemy instead. Hela stayed at Daisy’s home and offered gold as she asked Daisy to buy wine and roast pigs.

• Daisy spotted a green figure causing chaos in the street and suspected he was a Skrull, so Hela decided to investigate.
• Hela transformed, attacked the figure with her sword, and decapitated him before he could explain himself.
• Hela returned to Daisy’s home with the corpse, where Daisy recognized the victim as Green Goblin, not a Skrull.
• Hela dismissed the mistake, accepted leftover beer, and demanded wine and roast pigs while resuming her game.
• Hela gave Daisy a gold ingot and said she wanted to stay because Daisy had a game console, then asked what she liked to drink.

Su Ming investigated how the Skrulls had reached Earth and ruled out the Marauders after Starhawk checked their routes. He decided to investigate the technological teleportation possibility on Titan, suspecting Thanos might be involved.

• Yondu told Su Ming that Earth’s defenses made ordinary smuggling unlikely and that technological teleportation was the likely way in.
• Su Ming had Yondu contact Starhawk, who checked the Marauders’ records and confirmed none had traveled through the relevant star system that year.
• Su Ming told Starhawk he believed him and said it was time to catch a thief.
• Su Ming asked Star-Lord to bring his people and ship to Titan, where he suspected Thanos might be retaliating against him.
• Star-Lord used a dance to leave Yondu behind with Lady Tenderness, who pinned Yondu down again.

Su Ming’s team landed on ruined Titan and prepared to investigate, while S.H.I.E.L.D. learned the Skrulls might have discovered The Raft’s location. Coulson recruited Skye and ordered the team to head to The Raft as reports of the Green Goblin’s death raised new concerns.

• Su Ming, Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, and Carol landed on Titan, where Star-Lord left Mantis behind to guard the camouflaged ship.
• Su Ming warned Star-Lord that Thanos was not necessarily behind the conspiracy and that his strength lay in his dangerous mind as well as his combat ability.
• On Earth, Tony, Coulson, May, and Spider-Man discussed the Skrulls’ tracking method and the risk that they had located The Raft.
• Coulson told the group that an unfamiliar woman had killed the Green Goblin, leaving only green blood at the scene.
• Cavalry stopped Skye from leaving, and Coulson tested her before welcoming her to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Coulson ordered everyone to return to the Quinjet with the computer mainframe and head to The Raft.

Deadpool, Domino, and Outlaw converged on Strucker Enterprises to kill the same target, but found a Sentinel Robot waiting in the chairman’s office. The robot attacked them, shredding Deadpool as the two women dove for cover.

• Deadpool crept across Strucker Enterprises’ dark office floor toward the illuminated chairman’s office.
• A masked woman raced past Deadpool and insisted that the assassination job was hers.
• A blonde woman called the Cowboy confronted them, and the three assassins agreed to cooperate.
• The masked woman introduced herself as Domino, while the Cowboy identified herself as Outlaw, a Texan mercenary.
• Deadpool kicked open the office door, revealing a Sentinel Robot that detected their X-Genes and began an extermination protocol.
• Domino and Outlaw dove aside as the Sentinel Robot’s machine guns shredded Deadpool.

Deadpool, Domino, and Outlaw worked together to defeat the Sentinel Robot and searched for their target, a gnome. They discovered his escape tunnel and tried to smoke him out, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Domino and Outlaw took cover from the Sentinel Robot while Deadpool healed, and they explained their abilities to one another.
• Deadpool distracted the Sentinel Robot until a grenade damaged it, then covered its sensors and destroyed its core with a Carbonadium katana.
• Outlaw tore apart the powerless robot, and she and Domino agreed to celebrate together while acknowledging they might kill each other on a future job.
• Deadpool searched beneath the office desk and found a narrow tunnel, but the gnome had escaped beyond their reach.
• Deadpool put stolen marijuana in the tunnel and used a hair dryer to blow smoke after the gnome, while Domino and Outlaw held up lighters.

Hela and Daisy drank together, questioned the Green Goblin's corpse, and then interrogated a Skrull about the infiltration of Earth. The Skrull revealed that 300,000 of his kind had infiltrated most countries but avoided Asia, leaving Daisy disturbed by their reasoning.

• Daisy brought alcohol home, and she and Hela ate, drank, and talked about Deathstroke beside the Green Goblin's corpse.
• Hela reanimated the Green Goblin, learned his name was Norman Osborn, and sent his body through a portal while keeping his glider.
• At Daisy's request, Hela killed a Skrull and raised him as a loyal walking corpse to question him about the infiltration.
• The Skrull said 300,000 Skrulls had infiltrated Earth and identified their leader and method of crossing space as subjects of Hela's questioning.
• The Skrull explained that his people had avoided Asia because they considered other regions' populations easier to impersonate, and Daisy asked whether they should destroy him.

Hela and Daisy questioned the resurrected Skrull about a smuggling route and learned that an unidentified human called Z had helped the Skrulls reach Earth through a technological transit station. As Skrullse’s tracking chip brought a special operations team to Hela’s home, Deadpool and Cable finished a separate job and prepared to go drinking.

• Hela refused Thor’s wish to kill Skrullse and questioned him about the human collaborator known as Z.
• Skrullse said the Skrulls had traveled from Titan through a strange world using machines, and Hela guessed the route passed through a plane attached to the Main Dimension.
• Daisy said she did not understand the technology and suggested asking Deathstroke, Captain America, scientists, or a powerful Mage for help.
• Skrullse warned that his tracking chip would summon a special operations team because he had stayed in one place without reporting in.
• Hela armed herself as she sensed guests arriving, while Deadpool paid Cable for a job and prepared to go drinking with Domino and Inez.

Cable warned Deadpool, Domino, and Inez that a bounty-hunted Skrull team disguised as Avengers would attack them, then left before the fight began. Deadpool and his allies defeated the Skrulls by exploiting their disgust at his exposed face and chewed spinach.

• Cable explained that the disguised Skrulls were being pursued by Tony Stark and that Deadpool would inevitably encounter them.
• Cable vanished as the Skrulls arrived, and Deadpool identified them before their leader ordered an attack.
• Deadpool, Domino, and Inez fought the five Skrulls, but their leader punched Deadpool into a garbage pile.
• Deadpool ate spinach, then sprayed the chewed mixture at the Skrulls while Domino and Inez cleared a path.
• The Skrulls vomited at Deadpool's face and lost the ability to fight.

Deadpool and Spider-Man captured Skrull impostors, while Thor brought more captives to S.H.I.E.L.D. On Titan, Deathstroke’s team found Skrull boot prints leading into a concealed underground tunnel and prepared to investigate.

• Deadpool tied up several unconscious Skrull impostors, and Spider-Man cocooned them before the two joked and fought.
• Coulson tried to collect the captives, but Deadpool stopped him and argued over ownership.
• Tony bought Deadpool’s five captives for five million dollars.
• Thor arrived with a large group of Skrull captives and said she had learned part of their plan and needed more manpower.
• Deathstroke’s team searched Titan’s ruins for signs of contact with the Skrulls and encountered attacks from giant Titan Lizards.
• Elsa found Skrull military boot prints leading into a concealed underground tunnel, and Deathstroke told the team to proceed cautiously.

Deathstroke led the Guardians through the tunnels toward the Skrull operation, while he explained how he was gathering intelligence about events on Earth. After Carol collapsed the tunnel behind them, Skrull squads approached from ahead, and the Guardians charged to engage them as Deathstroke stayed back.

• Rocket sensed something following the group, and Strangle killed a Titan Lizard that had been trailing them.
• Deathstroke reassured Carol that events on Earth were progressing as expected and described how he had arranged to spy on Deadpool.
• Deathstroke told Carol to collapse the tunnel behind the group because Skrulls were approaching from the front.
• When no enemies appeared at first, Deathstroke explained that the disturbance would draw the thinking Skrulls toward them.
• Skrull squads arrived on hovering vehicles, and Star-Lord and the Guardians attacked while Deathstroke watched from behind.

Deathstroke’s team fought through a Skrull squad and found the portal leading to the Z-Realm. He revealed that the technological dimension was a cyberspace created by Arnim Zola, whose mind had survived in electronic form.

• Carol fought a Super Skrull captain in the tunnel, but Deathstroke ordered Strangle to shoot him in the neck, killing him with a precise shot.
• Carol took out her frustration on the remaining Skrulls, then handed the captain’s head to Deathstroke, who learned the maze’s layout from it.
• Deathstroke led the group through six walls to a control station containing a portal, and explained that the Skrulls had entered Earth through a portal on Titan.
• Deathstroke identified the portal’s destination as the Z-Realm and explained that Arnim Zola’s mind had been transferred there after his body died.
• Deathstroke called the Z-Realm Cyberspace, a technological dimension made of electronics and data.

Deathstroke and the others entered a barren black desert in the Technological Dimension and searched for a way to locate people and water. Groot offered to lead them by sensing moisture, while Deathstroke casually drank soda and prompted the thirsty group to reach for it.

• Star-Lord complained that the Cyberpunk world was an empty wilderness, and Su Ming and Deathstroke explained that resources were concentrated elsewhere.
• Deathstroke reported that they were in a black desert with a sandstorm that worsened at higher altitudes, while Elsa and Gamora compared it to volcanic ash and a postwar radioactive cloud.
• Rocket proposed voting on a direction, and Star-Lord declared he would not drink anyone's urine, disappointing Drax.
• Carol offered to scout from the air, but Gamora warned that the desert's sameness would make it difficult to return.
• Groot said he could sense moisture and lead the group toward water and potential settlements, so Deathstroke agreed to follow his lead.
• Deathstroke drank chilled soda, and the thirsty group reached toward his bottle.

Su Ming's group crossed a freezing black desert and found a patch of green grass that turned out to be a giant cybernetically modified sandworm's sparse hair. After Carol angered the beast by pulling out a strand, Su Ming prepared to fight it.

• The group struggled through the cold black desert as Cloak suffered from the digitized dimension until an Energy Gem eased its discomfort.
• Rocket spotted a patch of green in the dunes, and Drax and Su Ming warned that it felt dangerous.
• Carol flew to investigate and pulled up a green plant, awakening a gigantic sandworm beneath the sand.
• The sandworm erupted from the desert, sending the group tumbling down a dune as Carol escaped with the plant.
• Su Ming identified the creature as a mechanically modified giant worm and transformed Godslayer into a chainsaw to confront it.