Chapter Summaries

Deathstroke questioned Vision, Ultron, and the Supreme Intelligence about the Cancerverse’s history and Lord Mar-Vell. He learned that Mar-Vell had killed four other Deaths and was hiding in an evil god’s mental dimension, leaving Deathstroke to rely on his plans to lure him out.

• Vision welcomed Deathstroke, and Deathstroke explained that he had come to retaliate for the damage the Cancerverse had caused his world.
• Vision and the Supreme Intelligence revealed that Mar-Vell had killed four Deaths from other universes and taken their remains as trophies.
• Ultron said Mar-Vell’s followers could find the intelligent machines even through their networks.
• Vision confirmed that the Cancerverse’s Thanos had died while Mar-Vell invaded other universes, prompting Deathstroke to consider how universal collisions affected Death.
• The Supreme Intelligence said Mar-Vell was somewhere in an evil god’s dimension, so Deathstroke concluded he would need to lure Mar-Vell out with a trap.

Tony, Carol, and Deadpool went to New Orleans to meet Monica, but Deadpool entered Hero Coffee Shop and encountered Batman. The shop was a pocket dimension connecting Earth-40K and Earth-0, where Batman had been waiting for Deadpool.

• Tony and Carol accompanied Deadpool through New Orleans to find Monica, who was home after being suspended.
• Carol warned that visiting Monica at home could expose her identity, so Tony agreed they should ask her to meet them in uniform at a café.
• Deadpool recognized Batman inside Hero Coffee Shop and went in, with Tony and Carol following as the watching crowd suddenly dispersed.
• Batman explained that Deathstroke had placed a tracker on Deadpool and that he had cracked its tracking program.
• Batman revealed that Hero Coffee Shop was a magical pocket dimension connecting Earth-40K and Earth-0, established as an outpost for the Justice League.

Batwoman joined Tony, Carol, and Deadpool’s operation to find Monica Rambeau and travel to a Parallel Universe. He revealed that he had tracked down Monica and arranged their meeting at Hero Coffee Shop, leaving Tony impressed by his planning.

• Tony questioned Batwoman’s request to join the operation, but Batwoman calmly insisted he understood Parallel Universes and could protect himself.
• Tony asked Deadpool whether Batwoman could come along, but Deadpool was distracted chatting with Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
• Batwoman brought Monica out from behind the bar, revealing that he had persuaded her to wait at Hero Coffee Shop.
• Batwoman’s earlier plan had involved disguising himself as Diana, finding Monica before the others, and arranging a Pocket Dimension entrance and hired spectators to guide the group to the shop.
• Tony asked how Batwoman knew they were looking for Monica, and Batwoman answered that he knew because he was Batwoman.

Deathstroke explained that he planned to counter Darkseid’s Anti-Life Equation by pitting the Old Ones’ rule that life was love against the equation’s claim that life was death. He revealed that Deadpool was his chosen candidate to serve as the Old Ones’ agent, while Batwoman learned that Deadpool did not know what his role would entail.

• Batwoman arrived at Deathstroke’s Safehouse and confirmed that he was seeking a way to counter the Anti-Life Equation.
• Deathstroke explained that the Old Ones’ belief that life was love could invalidate the equation’s claim that life was death.
• Batwoman understood that Constantine would seek another form of Cosmic Energy to counter Darkseid’s Omega Effect.
• Deathstroke said only a madman could become an agent of the Old Ones and identified Deadpool as the candidate.
• Batwoman noted that Deadpool did not know about the plan, and Deathstroke said he had found him a wife that morning.

Su Ming welcomed Monica to the team and assigned Carol to help lure the crazed Mar-Vell, while Batman vanished after learning enough about the operation. As the group prepared to act, Daisy and Professor Xu discussed their suspicion that Batman was a living source of dark energy and might himself be a Doorway.

• Deadpool questioned Batman's sudden departure, and Su Ming explained that Batman had used the offer to join the operation to learn his plan.
• Deadpool clung to Su Ming, who stabbed him and then went to greet Tony, Carol, and Monica.
• Su Ming welcomed Monica Rambeau to the team, ordered Tony to greet him properly, and received Carol's agreement to serve as bait for the crazed Mar-Vell.
• Daisy and Professor Xu quietly discussed their observation that Batman radiated dark energy and seemed to be a Doorway.

Deathstroke learned how the Many-Angled Ones had corrupted this universe and organized a mission to destroy the Galactus Engine before Lord Mar-Vell’s forces could invade another world. The group prepared to search space for the Engine while Deadpool accepted a solo assignment on Earth.

• The Supreme Intelligence, Vision, and Ultron explained that Lord Mar-Vell and the Vindicators served the Many-Angled Ones, and that they had transformed Galactus into a living spacecraft called the Galactus Engine.
• Deathstroke ordered the robots to provide remote intelligence, reconnaissance, and logistics while his team searched space for the Engine.
• Doctor Doom asked about the Time Stone and learned it had disappeared after Doctor Strange became Sorcerer Supreme; Vision also revealed that a silver Dimensional Demon God had destroyed Kamar-Taj and that Strange later ate Wong.
• Deathstroke assigned Deadpool to operate alone on Earth, and Deadpool accepted after Cousin offered him money and Deathstroke gave him two firearms.

Su Ming led the heroes toward the Galactus Engine and assigned them roles in an assault meant to sacrifice Darkseid’s followers to the Black Pharaoh. After reaching the monstrous ship, the team prepared to attack.

• Su Ming assigned Thor, Captain Marvel, and himself to lead the charge, Spectrum to fight the minions, Doom and Xu Xian to perform the sacrifice, and Tony to disrupt communications.
• Doom questioned whether sacrificing the ship’s followers to the Black Pharaoh would anger the Old One, and Deathstroke explained that the gods barely noticed humans and that the Black Pharaoh was already involved.
• The Supreme Intelligence located the Galactus Engine, and Su Ming ordered the team to follow him.
• The team found the immense ship surrounded by glowing Meatballs and hordes of grotesque monsters, and Daisy observed that the creatures were devouring one another.
• Deathstroke explained that the monsters exchanged knowledge and love through their flesh, while Carol entered Binary Form and drew nearby creatures toward her.

Deathstroke led Carol, Daisy, Victor, Tony, Professor Xu, and Monica to infiltrate Galactus’s living vessel, the Galactus Engine. After Monica held off the monster swarm with light duplicates, the team fought through the vessel’s corrupted cells and reached a strange internal universe, where they prepared to descend toward Galactus’s heart.

• Deathstroke asked Monica to hold back the approaching monsters while the rest of the team boarded the vessel, and she created hundreds of thousands of bright duplicates to distract them.
• Carol blasted a passage into Galactus’s body, and Deathstroke’s group followed her inside as Daisy and Doom helped clear and conceal their route.
• Carol punched through Galactus’s skin while the group fought off corrupted immune cells with Daisy’s lightning and Deathstroke’s attacks.
• Carol opened a way into a rotten planetary system inside Galactus, and Deathstroke used the Ruur Crystal and Life Energy to heal their entrance and cut off their pursuers.
• The group saw dozens of corrupted planets orbiting Galactus’s glowing heart of flesh and blood, and Deathstroke told everyone to descend.

Deadpool used the Plot Continuity Gem to find his Earth-10011 counterpart, hoping to meet another version of himself. He discovered Machine Deadpool living in isolation with Vanessa, who had become a mutated monster.

• Deadpool decided to find his Earth-10011 counterpart after the Nonexistent Audience suggested it.
• Deadpool used the Plot Continuity Gem to travel to his counterpart’s island.
• Deadpool met Machine Deadpool, who explained that he had abandoned his original body to avoid becoming a slave to the Many-Angled Ones.
• Machine Deadpool brought flesh to his girlfriend, and Deadpool saw that Vanessa had become a deformed living-corpse monster.

Deathstroke and Doctor Doom prepared to destroy the Galactus Engine’s heart, but Adam Warlock appeared with an Infinity Gauntlet and tried to convert Deathstroke to the Old Ones’ worship. Adam attacked with the Soul and Mind Stones, yet Deathstroke showed no sign of being affected.

• Doctor Doom explained that the group needed to remove interference and weaken the heart’s Magic Resistance before he and Professor Xu could cast together.
• Deathstroke approached the heart, dodged a beam, and saw Adam Warlock emerge wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Adam declared that he intended to spread the Old Ones’ love, and Deathstroke questioned him about the supposed benefits.
• Deathstroke threw a lump of salt into Adam’s mouth, and Adam used the Reality Gem to undo the effect before attacking.
• Adam snapped his fingers and used the Soul and Mind Stones, sacrificing half his body as he regenerated, then claimed he had converted Deathstroke.
• Deathstroke remained calm and asked Adam if that was all.

Su Ming confronted Adam Warlock, whose five Infinity Stones failed to affect him because of his defenses and origins outside the Marvel Universe. Adam then used the Reality Gem to create a new reality, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Su Ming sent his companions ahead to continue their task while he stayed behind to face Adam Warlock.
• Su Ming assessed Adam's Power, Soul, Mind, Space, and Reality Stones and concluded that most posed little threat to him.
• Adam activated the Soul Gem and Mind Stone, but neither affected Su Ming.
• Su Ming taunted Adam and explained that the Stones had limits, prompting Adam to accuse him of deception.
• Adam invoked the Great Poly-Angled God and used the Reality Gem, enveloping himself and Su Ming in red mist.

Deathstroke defeated Adam Warlock despite the Space Stone’s power, then experimented with salt and life magic on Adam’s severed head. He rejoined Doom’s group and proposed testing the salted head and preserved body before they offered Galactus’s heart as an Immolation.

• Adam used the Space Stone to try to create a reality in which Deathstroke had already been defeated, but the attempt failed.
• Deathstroke explained that the Old Ones controlled the Cancerverse and that his sword’s weapon spirit let him alter the space, then beheaded Adam.
• Deathstroke salted Adam’s head and tried to draw out his life force, discovering that Adam’s life came from the gods rather than from himself.
• Deathstroke tore out Adam’s tongue when he continued shouting, then caught up with Doom and the others as they salted Galactus’s enormous heart.
• Deathstroke gave Adam’s head and preserved body to Doom and suggested testing them before the group offered the heart as an Immolation.

Deadpool wandered through the ruined Cancerverse version of New York, determined to find Lord Mar-Vell and kill him to bring the world some peace. After his attempts to get directions failed, he claimed the Plot Continuity Gem had told him to go south and headed north instead.

• Deadpool lamented that he could not save the suffering people of this world and asked nearby Meatballs where Lord Mar-Vell was.
• The Meatballs answered in a language Deadpool could not understand, and he tried using his boot to choose a direction, but it kept landing pointed up or down.
• Deadpool asked the Plot Continuity Gem to teleport him to Lord Mar-Vell, but it remained silent.
• Deadpool pretended the Gem had told him to head south, then set off north through the ruined city.

Deadpool encountered a monstrous creature, was launched dozens of kilometers, and crashed into an empty spaceship. He explored the vessel and decided its missing crew must be in the bathrooms.

• Deadpool ran into a shapeless, eye-covered monster and tried to demonstrate his slide-tackle strategy.
• The monster trapped Deadpool’s leg, then struck him so hard that he flew dozens of kilometers through the air.
• Deadpool crashed through the hull of an invisible spaceship and used the Plot Continuity Gem to restore himself.
• Deadpool explored the spherical ship, finding only abandoned equipment and no living crew or bodies.
• Deadpool guessed that the crew had all gone to the bathroom and set off to find them.

Su Ming and his allies considered sacrificing more of Galactus’s living heart to the Black Pharaoh, while Tony proposed using it as bait to ambush their target. Su Ming took Tony toward Galactus’s head to investigate the ship’s communications equipment, leaving the others with Doom.

• Doctor Doom confirmed that the Black Pharaoh had taken Adam Warlock’s head and life force without needing the magic-resistant mucus removed.
• Su Ming decided to continue sacrificing lives to the Black Pharaoh, despite Professor Xu’s concerns.
• Tony suggested analyzing the heart and using it to lure their target into an ambush, and Su Ming agreed to investigate Galactus’s head with him.
• Su Ming told Doom to protect the group remaining by the heart, then carried Tony through Galactus toward its brain.
• Tony warned Su Ming to watch Doom and admitted that he could trap monsters in the Quantum Realm if he could not kill them.

Deathstroke and Iron Man explored the biomechanical control room inside Galactus's head, where Tony briefly succumbed to a vision before Deathstroke snapped him out of it. They turned to inspect the central machine that might control the Galactus Engine.

• Inside Galactus's head, Iron Man froze after seeing the grotesque fusion of machinery and living tissue.
• Deathstroke slapped Tony awake and asked what he had seen, but Tony said he could not remember.
• Deathstroke gave Tony a Chocolate Frog, which calmed him after he ate it.
• Deathstroke identified the cancerous brain as the Galactus Engine's controller and pointed out the largest machine at the room's center for Tony to study.

Tony cracked the Vindicators’ communications system, and Su Ming ordered him to lure the Scarlet Witch to them first. Meanwhile, Deadpool investigated the spherical spacecraft and set off for its control room after his audience urged him to look around.

• Tony connected to the alien system and read messages revealing that Reed had disappeared and the Vindicators were hunting Vision and other resistance members.
• Su Ming told Tony to use Adam Warlock’s writing habits to lure Vindicators to them so they could be sacrificed.
• Tony offered to bait his alternate self, but Su Ming corrected him and named the Scarlet Witch as their first target.
• Deadpool concluded that the Commander was the only living person aboard the ship and guessed he was in its center.
• After his audience encouraged him, Deadpool headed toward the ship’s control room.

Deadpool found Lex Luthor aboard the Divinity instead of the Materialist Empire's Commander and learned how Luthor had followed Batwoman across universes. Luthor explained that he had killed the ship's original owner and revealed that Vision had secretly worked with both Deathstroke and the Commander, then offered Deadpool a drink.

• Deadpool rolled into the Divinity's control room and crashed into a console in front of Lex Luthor.
• Luthor told Deadpool that he was allied with Deathstroke, not Batwoman, and argued that humans were superior to aliens.
• Luthor explained that he had tracked Batwoman and used the Divinity, which he had inherited after Perpetua's death, to reach the Marvel Multiverse.
• Luthor said he had killed the ship's original owner and discovered that Vision had been giving information to both Deathstroke and the Materialist Empire's Commander.
• Luthor offered Deadpool liquor, and Deadpool accepted while calling him a good person.

Charles and Magneto sent Logan and Scarlet Witch to join the Avengers and build ties that could help secure Utopia’s future. While Su Ming and Tony prepared to bring Monica into the Galactus Engine, Tony discovered that Vision, Ultron, and Supreme Intelligence had stopped responding.

• Charles and Magneto decided Utopia needed an international patron and chose to seek ties through S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers.
• Logan and Scarlet Witch joined the Avengers as Utopia’s representatives, tasked with making friends among the superheroes.
• Iron Man forged a message in Adam Warlock’s name to lure Scarlet Witch from Universe 10011.
• Su Ming told Tony to signal Monica and bring her into the Galactus Engine to help eliminate the minions outside.
• Tony used the Engine’s communications system to contact Vision, Ultron, and Supreme Intelligence, but none of them replied.

Luthor recruited Deadpool to use Vision and Ultron’s heads to gain an audience with Lord Mar-Vell and help kill him. Deadpool misunderstood Luthor’s beheading plan as an order to castrate Mar-Vell.

• Deadpool and Luthor drank together aboard the Eyeball Ship and discussed finding a way to impress the Justice League.
• Luthor showed Deadpool a case containing Vision and Ultron’s heads and explained that he had destroyed them for plotting against humanity.
• Luthor revealed that he had extracted information from the robots, including details about the Materialist Empire and the universe.
• Luthor told Deadpool to carry the heads through the streets as gifts for Lord Mar-Vell so he could get close enough to kill him.
• Deadpool agreed but mistook Luthor’s beheading gesture for an order to castrate Mar-Vell.