Chapter Summaries

Deathstroke discussed governing aliens and military production with the Former Emperor, then returned to the Star Wars Universe after helping dismantle the Rebel Alliance. With Anakin’s preparations complete, the story ended as they stood ready to kill the Emperor of the Galactic Empire.

• Deathstroke learned that the Imperium had once incorporated alien species as auxiliary forces through shared interests, resources, and strict oversight, and decided to use that approach in the Star Wars Universe.
• Deathstroke left the Golden Throne to handle the cleanup in the new universe and asked the Former Emperor to discuss shipbuilding with the Omnissiah.
• Anakin and Padmé helped break up the Rebel Alliance, while Leia, Luke, Han Solo, and Chewbacca abandoned the rebellion.
• Anakin used his Jedi identity to draw Jedi and their forces out of the Alliance, and secretly screened the 501st Legion and trusted allies as Darth Vader.
• Deathstroke’s Synthezoid remained beside Palpatine as a decoy, and Anakin completed preparations for the final operation to kill the Emperor of the Galactic Empire.

Palpatine sensed the Force shifting and grew suspicious before Darth Vader arrived at the Imperial Palace. Sidious ambushed Vader with Force Lightning and, believing him defeated, taunted him about his lost chance at immortality.

• Palpatine felt watched by Jedi ghosts and noticed signs of trouble across the Empire, including the rising Life Force and Anakin’s frequent visits.
• Palpatine killed hundreds of civilians to calm himself, then used the Force to reverse Coruscant’s rotation and restore the midday sun.
• Darth Vader entered Palpatine’s office, and Sidious declared that his apprentice had betrayed him and would die.
• Sidious struck Vader’s chest control panel with Force Lightning, blasted him into the wall, and dropped him smoking to the floor.
• Sidious taunted the silent, struggling Vader about Starkiller, the Clones, and the immortality he had once planned to offer him.

Su Ming killed Darth Sidious with Joker’s laughing gas and set Anakin up to claim the throne, believing Sidious’s clones were being handled. On Byss, Sidious resurrected in a clone body, but the mercenary sent to kill him arrived before he could act on his revenge.

• Sidious inhaled the laughing gas released by Su Ming’s exploding Synthezoid and laughed himself to death.
• Su Ming searched Sidious’s memories, learned about the clones on Byss, and told Anakin to claim the throne and name his opponents.
• Anakin put on the replica Darth Vader armor and prepared to announce that Sidious had passed the throne to him.
• Sidious awakened in a clone on Byss and swore revenge on Anakin and Coruscant.
• A red-and-black-clad swordsman arrived, identified Sidious as his target, and demanded the rest of his commission.

After settling affairs in the Star Wars Universe, Su Ming and Harley vacationed in a cottage near Ponyville, where Fluttershy visited and received an MP3 player from him. Harley then suggested they explore town and try McPony’s, but Su Ming warned her its food was unsuitable for humans and proposed visiting the Cat Kingdom instead.

• Su Ming left the remaining Star Wars business to Adjutant and traveled with Harley to a medieval-style town near the Everfree Forest.
• Harley relaxed in the cottage yard while Su Ming watered the flowers and told her about his past visits to the world.
• Fluttershy stopped outside the cottage on her way to Sweet Apple Acres to help Applejack, and Su Ming invited her inside.
• Su Ming gave Fluttershy an MP3 player to take to the sick Big Macintosh, and she left happily with it.
• Harley asked to try McPony’s fast food, so Su Ming suggested traveling to Abyssinia for dried fish, prompting Harley to explain that Gotham’s stray cats ate corpses.

Su Ming and Harley spent the morning shopping in Ponyville, befriended Pinkie Pie, and watched a pony-made film. Their outing ended when a magical portal opened in the sky and sent objects falling toward Equestria, prompting Su Ming to fly off to deal with the arrivals.

• Su Ming and Harley skipped a trip to Cat Kingdom, ate breakfast, and headed to town to shop and speak with princesses about the Council of the Sky.
• Su Ming and Harley met Pinkie Pie on the road, and Harley gave her lipstick as a friendship gift.
• Harley and Su Ming shopped, got their hair done, and watched the pony film "Gone with the Mare" at the cinema.
• After the film, Su Ming and Harley saw a portal open in the clouds and colorful objects fall toward the horizon.
• Su Ming learned from the Adjutant that magic had opened an interuniversal portal, then armored up with Strangle and flew off to intercept the arrivals.

Queen Chrysalis accidentally summoned Bumblebee and Optimus Prime to Equestria while trying to call down a meteor, and Deathstroke caught them before they hit the ground. Twilight Sparkle welcomed the Autobots as friends and led them toward Sweet Apple Acres.

• Queen Chrysalis tried to summon a meteor to frighten Ponyville but miscast her spell and opened a passage between worlds.
• Bumblebee and Optimus Prime fell toward Equestria after being scattered from their battle against the Decepticons on the moon.
• Deathstroke used Force Choke to slow their fall and learned that they had returned to Earth to fight the Decepticons over a Space Bridge.
• Deathstroke told Twilight Sparkle that the Autobots had suffered a hot-air balloon malfunction, and Optimus Prime apologized for the dark clouds overhead.
• Twilight Sparkle introduced herself as Princess of Equestria, welcomed the Autobots, and invited them to meet her friends at Sweet Apple Acres.

Su Ming left Optimus Prime to help the ponies with the apple harvest and traveled to Manehattan to find the missing Transformers. He found Starscream forcing ponies to serve him and planning to rule the city.

• Twilight Sparkle explained that the Autobots' arrival had darkened the sky, making it difficult for Applejack and the others to pick apples.
• Optimus Prime offered to help with the harvest, while Su Ming arranged for Bumblebee to take Harley for a drive and set out to find the other Transformers.
• Su Ming used the Adjutant to travel to Manehattan, where he spotted Starscream wearing a crown and making ponies polish him.
• Starscream declared that he would become king before Megatron returned, while the Manehattan ponies went along with his demands to prevent further damage.

Starscream tried to have Rarity make him a coronation cloak in Manehattan, but Arcee attacked him and Su Ming stopped his escape. Arcee took Starscream prisoner while Su Ming went to find Ironhide, leaving Rarity eager to meet the newcomers.

• Starscream demanded that the ponies dress him in a magnificent cloak, and Rarity worked on it while humoring his boasts.
• Arcee arrived on her motorcycle, kicked Starscream through a building, and battered him with a rapid combo.
• Su Ming used Force Choke to stop Starscream from escaping, and Starscream surrendered and offered Megatron's secrets.
• Arcee confiscated Starscream's gun, handcuffed him, and chatted with Adjutant while Su Ming prepared to leave.
• Su Ming told Arcee that Optimus Prime was waiting in Ponyville and went to find Ironhide, while Rarity praised Arcee's fighting.

Su Ming and Optimus Prime learned that Megatron had teamed up with Queen Chrysalis to steal Ponyville’s apples in exchange for iron to build a spaceship. Su Ming joined Princess Celestia in pursuing them through a tunnel as she vowed to stop Chrysalis.

• At Sweet Apple Acres, Optimus Prime worried that Megatron was preparing a scheme, while Su Ming and Deathstroke explained why Ponyville’s emotional energy and resources were unlikely to help the Decepticons.
• Su Ming left to investigate after Deathstroke’s magic located Megatron and brought him to Princess Celestia’s fight against a Changeling army.
• Su Ming helped Princess Celestia defeat the Changelings as she revealed Chrysalis planned to steal Ponyville’s apples and use them to drain the Little Horses’ friendship.
• Princess Celestia said Megatron had agreed to help transport the apples in exchange for large amounts of iron to build a spaceship.
• Princess Celestia charged into the tunnel to stop Chrysalis, and Su Ming followed her.

Su Ming and Princess Celestia caught up with Megatron and Queen Chrysalis, but Chrysalis escaped while the ponies confronted Megatron. Twilight Sparkle and her friends used Harmony Essence on him, leaving Su Ming wondering about the power behind their magic.

• Su Ming and Princess Celestia caught up with Megatron, who threatened to detonate his Energy Matrix if they tried to stop him.
• Twilight Sparkle arrived with the other ponies and Autobots, and Queen Chrysalis turned invisible and fled, leaving Megatron behind.
• Princess Celestia told the newcomers that Megatron had a giant bomb, while Rarity and Optimus Prime urged him to surrender and reform.
• Twilight Sparkle recognized that Megatron might be corrupted by evil thoughts, and the six bearers of the Elements of Harmony joined hooves to use Harmony Essence on him.
• Su Ming protected Princess Celestia from the blast and considered whether the ponies' magic and Cutie Marks reflected mastery of powerful cosmic rules.

Su Ming celebrated the foiled attack on Equestria with the ponies and Autobots, then received an Energon cube for his planned weapon. The chapter ended with Morty and a mermaid Morty struggling to survive after their prison ship crashed on an unfamiliar planet.

• Twilight Sparkle offered to research the Autobots’ origins and eventually send them home while everyone celebrated after Chrysalis’s scheme failed.
• Su Ming gave Princess Celestia a Spider Totem and accepted an Energon cube from Optimus Prime to use in forging a weapon.
• A starving Morty woke in a cave fourteen days after the Multiversal Prison Ship crashed and found his mermaid companion unconscious.
• Morty revived Mermaid Morty by offering him an old GBA, and Mermaid Morty happily retreated into the cave to play Eden Fighter 2.

Morty searched the forest for food to save Mermaid Morty, while hallucinations from the crash and the planet’s spores made survival increasingly bizarre. He finally spotted potato chips and 18X magazines growing on a tree and charged toward them.

• Morty left the cave with a toothbrush and searched the barren forest for food, determined to help Mermaid Morty survive.
• Morty recalled that he and Rick had joined a failed uprising against the Alliance, and that their prison ship had crashed on the forest planet fourteen days earlier.
• Morty mistook a driver, a fast-food restaurant, and roadside food vendors for hallucinations, insisting that he needed real supplies for Mermaid Morty.
• Morty remembered the dead Mortys and the second Zombie Morty assault expected beneath the blood moon that night.
• Morty saw bags of potato chips and copies of 18X Magazine growing on a tree and pounced toward them.

Morty was captured by Hunter Rick, who explained that Ricks were collecting Mortys for a tournament to decide who controlled the planet. Morty escaped the bunker and hid in a storage room, where he encountered another Morty covered in fire ants.

• Hunter Rick captured Morty with a shock chip and dragged him to a bunker holding many imprisoned Mortys.
• Hunter Rick explained that the Quartz Alliance had created a Pocket Morty tournament to settle the Ricks' fight over the planet's resources.
• Hunter Rick destroyed a Luxury Ball containing Hippie Morty while insisting that brutal training could turn Mortys into warriors.
• Morty escaped after removing his shock chip, and Hunter Rick set out to recapture him.
• Morty hid in a storage room and screamed when he found another Morty with fire ants crawling over his eyes.

Morty escaped Hunter Rick’s facility and sought another Rick, but fled after learning that Cat Lover Rick planned to genetically modify and breed his Mortys. He ran north into another Rick’s territory.

• Morty tried to remove Eyeball Fire Ant Morty’s tracking chip but accidentally killed him, then ate the fire ants crawling over his eye.
• Morty confronted Hunter Rick and left the Underground Facility to find a Rick who would treat him better.
• Morty reached Cat Lover Rick’s courtyard, where Cross-dressing Morty explained Rick’s plan to use a Gender-Changing Ray and breed Mortys.
• Cat Lover Rick chased Morty to castrate him for genetic modification, and Morty fled north into another Rick’s territory.

Morty resisted Zen Rick’s attempt to recruit him with drugs and yoga, then heard from Deathstroke Rick, who claimed the Pocket Mortys world was fictional and offered him a way out. Deathstroke Rick told Morty to use a teleportation device in the nearest women’s restroom, leaving Morty to decide whether to trust him.

• Morty found Zen Rick leading drugged Mortys through yoga and refused to join his scheme.
• Morty fled down the mountain and sat in the rain, overwhelmed by the experience.
• A mysterious voice contacted Morty, identified itself as Deathstroke Rick, and offered him a deal.
• Deathstroke Rick claimed Morty was trapped in a fictional digital world and directed him to escape through a toilet-like device in the nearest women’s restroom.

Morty followed Deathstroke Rick’s instructions to escape a digital illusion, but he woke in a prison that Rick claimed was another dream. Rick told him to make a Dream Totem from the lightbulb above his head, leaving Morty to attempt the next step alone.

• Morty entered a presidential polling station and, on Deathstroke Rick’s orders, defecated on the ballot box.
• Men in Black tasered Morty, who then woke in an unfamiliar prison wearing an orange outfit and a bracelet.
• Deathstroke Rick insisted Morty was still dreaming and explained that he was in a digital illusion within a deep dream in the Quantum Space of a Parallel World.
• Deathstroke Rick instructed Morty to remove the lightbulb above him and turn it into a spinning-top Dream Totem.

Morty escaped one dream layer by drowning himself, only to wake in another dream where Jerry had become a muscular Hollywood-style ideal man. Deathstroke Rick identified Morty's mother as the likely owner of the new dream, and Morty went downstairs to learn more and seek another way to die.

• Morty tested his spinning top, realized he was trapped in a dream, and drowned himself to escape the Limbo layer.
• Morty awoke in his bedroom with the spinning top still in hand, and Deathstroke Rick warned him that he remained in a dangerous dream.
• Morty asked Deathstroke Rick for the most decisive way to die, then met a muscular, handsome Jerry who claimed to be his father.
• Deathstroke Rick suspected the dream belonged to Morty's mother or Summer, and Morty went downstairs to investigate.
• Morty saw his rejuvenated, glamorous mother and unchanged Summer, and concluded that his mother owned the dream.

Morty endured countless dream layers, repeatedly dying to escape, until Deathstroke Rick captured him as a Pocket Morty and Rick revealed the ordeal had been a constructed illusion. Deathstroke received the upgraded Godslayer and left with Harley, while Rick took Morty to a parallel universe for a Dungeons & Dragons adventure.

• Deathstroke Rick guided Morty through successive dreams and advised him how to die in each one, until Morty had spent what felt like ten thousand years trying to escape.
• Morty believed he had returned to reality, shot Deathstroke in the garage, and demanded to be killed; Deathstroke trapped him inside a Poké Ball.
• Su Ming accepted the captured Morty, and Rick revealed that he had projected the illusion while upgrading the Godslayer with technology and magic.
• Rick explained that Morty was a valuable dream-created Pocket Morty, then traded the upgraded Godslayer to Deathstroke, who departed with Harley.
• Rick invited Morty to a parallel universe where Dungeons & Dragons campaigns followed the rules, and Morty eagerly went to gather his family.

Su Ming assigned Hermione and Efferal missions to bring new worlds under the Council of the Sky and Imperial Cult while discussing the threat posed by weakening barriers between universes. He ordered experiments to stimulate evolution and a Spiritual Energy Resurgence in two 40K universes, leaving the plans in the Adjutant's hands.

• Harley returned to Ponyville and planned to bring Poison Ivy there, while Su Ming sat in Sepulk and asked the Adjutant about the Star Wars galaxy's statistics.
• Su Ming had Strangle send Witchblade memories to the Adjutant and ordered Hermione to persuade Sara Pezzini to join the Council of the Sky and help take over her world.
• Su Ming ordered Efferal to meet Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings world and promote the Imperial Cult.
• Su Ming showed the Adjutant his modified Godslayer and discussed how universes might collide as Earth-40K grew stronger.
• Su Ming told the Adjutant to begin Kaecilius's plan by deploying improved zombie alien broodmothers on 40K-1, limiting population losses to twenty percent.
• Su Ming planned to gather demons, tentacled monsters, Vengeful Ghosts, and zombies for deployment in 40K-2 to encourage a Spiritual Energy Resurgence.

Su Ming returned to 40K Earth and caught up with Gin on recent events while they relaxed in the mountains. After hearing that Daredevil had teamed up with Shang-Chi to seek justice for Elektra, Su Ming revealed that he planned to kill Shang-Chi.

• Su Ming and Gin discussed Harley, Diana, and the complications keeping Diana on Earth-0.
• Gin told Su Ming that Jennifer Walters had become She-Hulk after a blood transfusion, and that General Ross had taken an interest in her.
• Gin reported that a new hero called Spectrum had appeared, Elektra had been killed, and Daredevil was pursuing justice with Shang-Chi.
• Gin said Beta Ray Bill had visited Earth seeking Thor to stop Loki and had mentioned the Sacred Timeline, while Black Pharaoh continued serving as president.
• Su Ming said he would reform Spectrum and admitted he had wanted to kill Shang-Chi, whose existence he considered a mistake.