Chapter Summaries

Hela overwhelmed the eight Hammer Heralds with her fighting skill, Blackstone magic, undead army, and Death Spore Flower poison. Sin was the last Herald still standing, but Hela advanced on her and prepared to strike.

• Hela fought the eight Hammer Heralds alone, killed one, and dismissed Sin's offer of an alliance with The Serpent.
• Hela trapped the Heralds in a Blackstone cage and unleashed a barrage of spikes, forcing them to defend themselves with their hammers.
• Hela's smoke concealed Death Spore Flower powder, which weakened most of the living Heralds until they could barely lift their weapons.
• Sin resisted the poison while pleading not to disappoint her father, and Hela sensed she meant another father figure, not The Serpent.
• Hela approached Sin and raised the Night Sky Sword to strike the iceberg in her path.

The Serpent attacked Hela in the Golden Palace plaza, destroying Asgard and wiping out her undead army, but a short black-and-yellow figure blocked his blow. Baldr rushed to aid Hela, and the chapter ended with the Serpent’s new opponent taunting him.

• The Serpent revealed himself as Odin’s brother and tried to recruit Hela, but she refused and challenged him.
• The Serpent empowered the Hammer Bearers and struck Hela with a devastating blow that shattered Asgard and burned away her undead army.
• Baldr realized Hela had manipulated him but forgave her, then ran toward the Serpent with Gungnir.
• A short black-and-yellow figure blocked the Serpent’s axe with a black greatsword and asked whether he had eaten yet.

Deathstroke exposed The Serpent’s disguise and explained how clues from Asgard’s past and the staged corpse gave him away. He left the fight to Baldr, who charged The Serpent to face his destiny.

• Deathstroke fought The Serpent, and both suffered injuries that quickly healed.
• Deathstroke rescued Baldr and destroyed one of The Worthy with a blast of Cosmic Energy.
• Deathstroke told The Serpent he recognized him because he remembered Asgard’s war sixty years earlier and noticed the false warrior’s back-facing corpse.
• Deathstroke urged Baldr to embrace his destiny and preserve the Golden Palace’s remaining history.
• Baldr adjusted the bandage over his eyes and charged The Serpent with his spear raised.

Deathstroke and Hela cleared the battlefield while discussing his plan to expose those hiding in Yggdrasil’s shadow. As Baldr wounded The Serpent with Gungnir, Deathstroke provoked him with a mystery about the green-eyed girl he once loved, leaving The Serpent demanding an answer.

• Hela realized Deathstroke had let events unfold to draw out those hiding in Yggdrasil, and he explained that time and intelligence had helped him plan amid the chaos.
• Deathstroke stopped Hela from killing Sin, captured her alive, and arranged for Cloak to take her into Odin’s Slumber.
• Deathstroke crushed Skadi’s Hammer into a lump of metal, and Hela declined to keep it.
• Deathstroke and Hela watched Baldr fight The Serpent, whose injuries from Gungnir appeared to fulfill the prophecy that Odin’s son could harm him.
• Deathstroke asked The Serpent if he wanted to know who the green-eyed girl from his past had been, then withheld the answer as Baldr stabbed him again.

Loki and Amora escaped Asgard with Thor, but Thanos’s forces destroyed their ship before Loki contacted Mephisto and brought their souls to Blazing Hell. Mephisto honored their deal while giving Loki a mortal woman’s body, and Loki left with Thor’s soul as Amora remained behind.

• Loki told Amora that Ragnarök would affect everyone tied to Yggdrasil and revealed that prisoners’ souls were the price of his deal with Mephisto.
• Loki and Amora jumped to a distant starfield, where Thanos’s Dark Sanctuary trapped their ship and Adam Warlock blocked their teleportation spell.
• Thanos and Adam watched the ship explode, then headed toward Earth to collect the Infinity Stones.
• Loki awoke in Blazing Hell with Thor and Amora, where Mephisto revealed that he had placed Loki’s soul in a mortal woman’s body.
• Loki gave Amora to Mephisto as a gift, then dragged Thor’s soul away and saw his new appearance in a water mirror.

Deathstroke and Hela taunted The Serpent while Baldr wounded him, and Deathstroke deduced that The Serpent could not yet summon the Draumar Legion. As Yggdrasil withered, The Serpent transformed into a massive green dragon and attacked them, leaving Deathstroke to call on Hela.

• Hela questioned whether she had ever helped The Serpent, and Deathstroke said a different woman had cared for him when he was weak.
• Deathstroke probed The Serpent about the Draumar Legion and guessed that The Serpent was stalling while bound by a deal with whoever was behind the conflict.
• Deathstroke and Hela mocked The Serpent with remarks about a green-eyed woman, while Baldr continued to wound him with Gungnir.
• As Yggdrasil nearly withered, The Serpent abandoned his human form and transformed into a huge, green, legless dragon.
• Deathstroke and Hela joked about The Serpent's green appearance as he lunged at them, and Deathstroke called, "Now, Hela."

Baldr killed The Serpent but died from the Evergreen Sword, and Su Ming identified the hidden killer as one of the Gods in the Shadows. As Asgard fell toward Earth, Su Ming sent Hela to safety and prepared to confront them, with eleven minutes before impact.

• Baldr charged into The Serpent’s mouth and killed it, then took nine steps before dying from a mistletoe branch lodged in his chest.
• Su Ming recognized the branch as the Evergreen Sword and concluded that someone had murdered Baldr from inside The Serpent’s mouth.
• Asgard began falling toward Earth, and Su Ming explained to Hela that Yggdrasil would take root there and draw on its soil and Life Energy.
• Su Ming told Hela to take the executioner and Sin away while he faced the Gods in the Shadows alone.
• The Adjutant reported that Asgard would reach Earth in eleven minutes, and Su Ming asked to contact his cousin.

Deadpool was rejected by the Avengers, but Batman appeared and asked him to take him to Deathstroke. When Deadpool used Cable’s Teleportation Belt to answer his cousin’s call, Batman came along, and they arrived in the middle of Deathstroke’s battle with Ragnaros.

• Deadpool walked home after the Avengers rejected him, stopping to shoot at a woman who yelled at him from a window.
• Batman appeared in an alley, and Deadpool grabbed his leg and tried to negotiate payment for taking him to Deathstroke.
• Deathstroke called Deadpool and ordered him to enter Adjutant’s dynamic-coordinate equation into Cable’s Teleportation Belt.
• Deadpool warned Batman not to follow him, but Batman lunged onto his back as the belt activated.
• Deadpool and Batman arrived at the Elemental Plane of Fire, where Deathstroke fought Ragnaros, and Deathstroke shot off Deadpool’s head for leaving his MP3 player on.

Deathstroke stole The Serpent’s corpse from Surtur, who then burned the withered Yggdrasil. After reuniting with Deadpool and Batman, Deathstroke learned that Batman thought his Earth was “not bad” and headed toward the flames.

• Deathstroke clashed with Surtur over The Serpent’s corpse, distracting him while Strangle secretly took the body.
• Surtur realized Deathstroke had stolen The Serpent and hurled Laevateinn at the withered Yggdrasil, setting it ablaze before disappearing.
• Deathstroke found Deadpool, who had been shot in the head, and asked where Batwoman had gone.
• Batman deactivated his camouflage and told Deathstroke that his Earth was “not bad” before leaving.
• Deathstroke smacked Deadpool on the back of the head and headed toward the burning Yggdrasil.

Deathstroke stopped time in the collapsing Asgard dimension and confronted the People in the Shadows, revealing that they were Second Generation Gods and explaining how he had identified them. The gods rejected his reasoning and prepared to fight, while Deathstroke restored Deadpool’s movement and readied himself to kill them.

• Deadpool questioned Deathstroke about the People in the Shadows, while Deathstroke said their immortality came from time.
• Deathstroke used the Cosmic Cube and Time Stone to stop time throughout the collapsing dimension.
• The People in the Shadows emerged from the smoke and asked Deathstroke why he had involved himself in their cycle.
• Deathstroke explained that the gods were Second Generation Gods from the Mystic Side and cited their appearance, speech, and the Edda Epic as evidence.
• The gods stayed silent and began readying their weapons, so Deathstroke restored Deadpool’s movement and prepared to attack.

Su Ming revealed that the shadow gods were survivors from a future Timeline trying to enter the present through Ragnarök, and he fought them alongside Deadpool. After identifying the gods and overpowering Thor’s sons, Su Ming prepared Strangle to transform into a snake.

• Wade and Su Ming stood back-to-back as the shadowy gods descended, and Wade asked Su Ming to explain why their identities mattered.
• Su Ming explained that the intact Gimli Palace matched the Ragnarök prophecy and identified the shadowy figures as gods of the future.
• As Su Ming named the future gods, the shadows gained color and revealed living people beneath them.
• Deadpool recognized that the enemies came from another Timeline, while Su Ming explained how repeated Ragnarök cycles had kept them from reaching the present.
• Deadpool’s grotesque attack made the descending gods recoil, and Su Ming used his enhanced powers to defeat Thor’s son and crush a Mjolnir.
• Su Ming declared that this was a Ragnarök he had created and told Strangle to turn into a snake.

Deathstroke used the destruction of Yggdrasil and the Cosmic Cube’s control of Asgard to trap the People in the Shadows, then defeated their gods and seized the Infinity Gauntlet. He resumed time after the battle and prepared to leave the battlefield with Deadpool.

• Deadpool proposed dueling the gods but fell over after forgetting to pull up his pants.
• Deathstroke used Strangle and the Time Stone to capture Wali, kill him, and cut off the arm wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Deathstroke explained that Yggdrasil’s destruction and his earlier maneuvers had left him in control of Asgard’s dimension and prevented the People in the Shadows from escaping.
• Strangle swallowed and crushed the Infinity Gauntlet, while Deathstroke declined its new slots because he embedded his gems in his bones.
• Deadpool suffocated a god by wrestling him in vomit and excrement, and Deathstroke incinerated the corpse with a Melt Grenade.
• Deathstroke restarted time with the Time Stone after freezing the dimension, exhausted by the effort.

Su Ming let Níðhöggr leave as the ruined Asgard began falling toward Earth, then tried to redirect it away from New York. On Earth, the Avengers learned that Asgard was about to crash into Manhattan, while Tony recognized it too late to prevent the impact.

• Su Ming stored dangerous items from the Golden Palace Treasury and warned Níðhöggr to leave instead of hitching a ride to Earth.
• Níðhöggr departed for the Main Dimension, ending his ten-thousand-year hatred of the Aesir.
• Su Ming wrote Deadpool a withdrawal slip and went to adjust Asgard’s falling direction away from New York.
• Carol, Daisy, and Vision reported that the Skrull spies and Hydra had been dealt with, while Tony prepared to order burgers.
• Jarvis warned that a huge celestial body would hit Manhattan within two minutes, and Tony identified it as Asgard after Daisy recognized Thor’s home.

Tony and the others watched Deathstroke stop the falling ruins of Asgard and carry them to Alaska, where Doctor Strange and his students began securing the wreckage. Deathstroke returned to the Underworld and took Hela to see two people held in coffins.

• Tony prepared to intercept Sky City, but Jarvis reported that Deathstroke had caught and slowed the falling city.
• Carol abandoned her attempt to help after seeing Deathstroke carry the ruins toward the ground.
• Deathstroke landed the Golden Palace ruins in Alaska and told Doctor Strange and his students to search them and hide them in the Mirror Dimension.
• Deathstroke returned to the Underworld, where Hela was playing fetch with Fenrir.
• Deathstroke gave Hela the broken Gungnir and invited her to the Hall of Heroes to see two people in coffins.

Deathstroke planned for Vanaheim’s restoration and checked on Hermione’s watch over connected worlds before agreeing to travel with her and recruit professionals. Meanwhile, Deadpool went to Las Vegas for a solo vacation, where Domino and Outlaw drew him into robbing a casino.

• Gin told Deathstroke that Yggdrasil’s regrowth would restore the Nine Realms, and he ordered Synthezoids to retrieve zombies for fertilizer from the world Future Wade had identified.
• Hermione reported that the old Principal and the Dark Lord were living in Hawaii, that Harry and Malfoy had grown close, and that she had stopped the goblins from interfering with Mr. Howard Stark’s business.
• Deathstroke asked Hermione to watch for threats following the DC Universe’s elevation, then offered to take her to other worlds to recruit professionals.
• Deadpool withdrew most of the money he had borrowed from Gin and teleported to a Las Vegas casino for a vacation.
• Domino and Outlaw began robbing the casino, recruited Deadpool to collect money from the chip exchange room, and agreed to his proposal to dress as female teachers.

Agents K and J took over a suburban fire department’s attempt to rescue a kitten from a tree, believing the Blue Cat was a dangerous, unregistered alien. J climbed up to capture it, but the frightened kitten backed away as he prepared to pounce.

• Agent Hoover, known as K, showed the fire captain his credentials and ordered the firefighters away from the tree.
• Agent Kennedy, known as J, insisted he could handle the supposed alien without K’s help.
• J climbed into the banyan tree and tried to coax the Blue Cat down with milk and dried fish.
• The Blue Cat growled and swiped at J, and he decided to capture it by force.
• The kitten retreated along the shaking branch as J crouched to pounce.

Agents K and J defeated an alien disguised as a tree, erased the witnesses’ memories, and reported the incident to headquarters. Su Ming and Hermione followed them, planning to enter MIB headquarters by posing as Men in White from China.

• Blue Cat jumped to Agent K as the tree alien wrapped Agent J in a branch and battered him.
• Agent K shot the fleeing tree alien with a weapon that destroyed it, then rescued Agent J from the wrecked fire truck.
• Agent K used a memory-erasing device to convince the firefighters and the cat’s owner that the fire truck had hit a tree.
• Agents K and J left the neighborhood to get pancakes after K reported the alert cleared.
• Su Ming and Hermione watched the agents leave, then followed in a magically enlarged car.
• Su Ming changed his suit to white and told Hermione they would pose as Men in White from China to reach MIB headquarters.

Su Ming and Hermione followed Agents K and J to the Men in Black headquarters, intending to study Alien-related technology and management methods for their own worlds. They disguised themselves as Chinese agents and entered the building to request a meeting with Agent O.

• Hermione tailed the agents through New York while Su Ming explained that he wanted to study A-Net, space travel, energy weapons, and ways to manage Aliens.
• Su Ming said he needed human professionals to manage Alien affairs, while Efferal's Inquisition would serve as the stick.
• Hermione and Su Ming watched Agents K and J eat at a diner, then followed them to a windowless building.
• Su Ming and Hermione changed their appearances and posed as Men in White from China.
• They entered the building and asked Agent F to notify Agent O.

Su Ming and Hermione entered MIB headquarters and met Agent O, who welcomed them while probing their identities and purpose. They began talks in her office, with Su Ming keeping his intentions guarded.

• Agent F tested Su Ming and Hermione, then contacted Agent O after Su Ming proved he had no fingerprints.
• Agent F sent them down to MIB's underground headquarters, where Hermione saw humans and aliens living and working together.
• Agent O met Su Ming and Hermione, and MIB agents searched them and confirmed they were human and unarmed.
• Agent O led them to her office and asked why they had come, while Su Ming deflected her questions.

Su Ming negotiated with Agent O for MIB technology, offering a demonstration of his strength and a supply of Beauty Potion in exchange. Agent O agreed to report their requests to her superiors, leaving the proposed deal poised for approval.

• Su Ming and Hermione convinced Agent O that they represented China's Men in White and had come to exchange technology.
• Agent O agreed to authorize a copy of MIB's Interstellar Travel Registration System but said spacecraft plans required further negotiation.
• Su Ming pressed the character for “morning” into a tungsten-steel table with one finger and offered to teach Celestial Dynasty Kung Fu in exchange for civilian spacecraft plans and star charts.
• Su Ming asked for information about A-Net and offered Beauty Potion as another bargaining chip.
• Agent O recorded their requests and said she would take the deal to her superiors.