Chapter Summaries

May Parker tried to get her retired father, Peter Parker, to clean up, eat properly, and spend time with her, but he preferred watching television. Deathstroke arrived at their apartment, and Peter greeted him as a friend while asking about the Earth in the sky.

• May opened the curtains and found Peter watching a beach volleyball broadcast amid a filthy, cluttered room.
• May scolded Peter, cleaned up his trash, and urged him to see Doctor Doom or go out to eat with her.
• Peter refused to leave when the television switched to synchronized swimming, prompting May to attack him in frustration.
• Deathstroke caught the takeout box May threw and entered the apartment, where May asked why the Sorcerer Supreme had come to their Earth.
• Peter welcomed Deathstroke and asked whether the Earth in the sky was his 40K, but Deathstroke told him it was Earth-1610.

Su Ming and the Ultimates met Peter Parker, May Parker, and Jesse Drew on Earth-9997 to learn how their world had escaped the Multiversity. Peter explained that Reed Richards believed the Celestials were conducting another experiment and that Earth must rise above it, then called his Iron Man after Su Ming asked to meet him.

• Miles greeted Peter Parker, who welcomed him and the others into his cluttered apartment.
• Jesse Drew hugged May Parker, and May explained that Reed Richards believed the Multiversity was another Celestial experiment.
• Peter said his world had saved people from a previous collision but could not reproduce Doom's method of controlling a universe.
• Tony remarked that the people on Earth-9997 seemed calm despite the danger, while Peter used tiny metal spiders to build the guests a bench.
• Su Ming told Peter that Loki had opened a portal to his door, and Peter grimaced as he realized Iron Man probably already knew they had arrived.

Su Ming and the others went with Old Peter to meet Iron Man, navigating Earth-X’s chaotic skies and learning how its superpowered population resisted restrictions. Their trip stopped when a crocodile-headed Mutant tried to rob them, and Peter took the attack himself.

• Iron Man answered Old Peter’s call, asked for the entrance coordinates, and agreed to meet them.
• Old Peter led Su Ming and the others outside, where they saw the crowded, disorderly air traffic above Earth-X.
• May explained that the Avengers defended freedom and treated people as equals, while Su Ming reflected on how powerful Earth-X’s survivors were.
• A crocodile-headed Mutant jumped out near Peter’s car and announced a robbery.
• Old Peter refused to let Su Ming handle the robber, but the Mutant repeatedly stabbed Peter’s belly with a dagger.
• Su Ming called out to Strangle as Deathstroke watched the robber’s speed and fighting skill.

Su Ming took Peter to meet Iron Man and warned him about the Hunger Zombies, while Daisy and her friends returned home after rescuing Gwenpool’s family. Gwenpool went to answer the door expecting Deathstroke, but Harley Quinn greeted her with a tequila-filled water gun.

• Strangle killed the robber who attacked Peter, and Su Ming told Peter the attacker’s appearance was a notice rather than a test.
• Su Ming explained that Hunger Zombies had reached Peter’s Earth and said Iron Man needed to know about Zombie Reed.
• Daisy, Hela, Gwenpool, Howard the Duck, and Caroline returned home after the rescue, while Lockjaw went to vomit over Sophie and Oleg’s behavior.
• Gwenpool considered asking Deathstroke to move her family from Franklin’s Pocket Universe to the 40K Main Universe.
• Gwenpool opened the door expecting Deathstroke, but Harley Quinn sprayed tequila in her face and laughed.

Su Ming and his companions traveled through a world populated by Mutants while Peter described the heroes who had died defending Earth from the Celestials. The group reached Manhattan after learning that the Avengers Dark Team had been deceived and destroyed, leaving Loki furious at Odin.

• Jessica watched the Mutants on the streets as Peter explained that they were humans who had changed, and Little May said animals had fled New York.
• Su Ming asked about the X-Men and Inhumans, and Peter told him Professor X, Magneto, Black Bolt, and the Inhumans had sacrificed themselves against the Celestials.
• Peter listed the seven remaining Avengers and explained that Mar-Vell had been their eighth member before he died.
• Su Ming asked about the Avengers Dark Team, and Peter revealed that Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, Loki, and the other Mages had died after the Celestials made magic useless.
• Peter parked in an alley in Manhattan, and Loki cursed Odin after hearing that her counterpart had killed himself.

The group reached Old Tony’s hidden Safehouse, where he scanned them under the guise of disinfection before receiving them. Deathstroke went to speak with Old Tony while Earth-X’s female Thor welcomed the others.

• Peter found Tony’s Iron Man emblem in the alley and opened the concealed entrance beneath the dumpster.
• Little May led the group through the dark tunnel to the Safehouse elevator.
• Deathstroke told Skye that Old Tony was scanning them for possible countermeasures and warned him about the zombie threat and the Celestials.
• The group entered the Safehouse and met Earth-X’s female Thor, who greeted them on Old Tony’s behalf.
• Deathstroke left Miles to introduce the group and went to speak with Old Tony, who sat inside a sealed transparent sphere.

Deathstroke met Iron Man on Earth-X and learned that Zombie Reed was building a passage to the Negative Zone. Meanwhile, Harley Quinn arrived with a mission to help arrange Deadpool’s wedding and persuaded Daisy and Gwenpool to go shopping with her.

• Deathstroke met Iron Man, who asked what he thought a superhero was and showed him satellite footage of zombies in Alaska.
• Iron Man explained that Zombie Reed was building a passage to the Negative Zone and said he had a plan for Deathstroke’s help.
• Gwenpool asked Harley Quinn why she had come, while Harley dodged the question and teased her and Daisy.
• Harley revealed that Gin had sent her to help arrange Deadpool’s wedding, then invited Daisy and Gwenpool to go shopping.
• Daisy agreed to go to the supermarket, and Harley gathered the others, including a duck from the corner.

Zombie Reed and the surviving members of his group worked to complete a Teleportation Portal to the Heaven Dimension, hoping to escape Earth-X’s defenders and find fresh victims. Susan and Johnny led the starving zombies away to hunt while Reed continued building, leaving Tony to question the cost of their survival.

• Zombie Reed explained that the group needed to finish the portal so they could enter the Heaven Dimension and find food.
• Zombie Reed struck Susan when she complained of hunger, and she took it as permission to hunt.
• Susan and Johnny left to find food, and the rest of the hungry zombies abandoned their work to follow them.
• Zombie Tony asked Reed whether he had sent Susan and the others out as bait, but Reed ordered him to help finish the portal.
• Reed told Tony that any individual could be sacrificed to preserve the group, while Tony questioned where the energy from their endless hunger went.

Susan led hundreds of Zombie Heroes into a village, where they attacked its residents and discovered that the inhabitants were inedible Faceless Men. Deathstroke and Reed revealed that the village had been bait for a trap, and Reed decided to destroy the captured zombies in the sun.

• Susan flew with the hungry zombies toward an Alaskan village and attacked a resident, only to find that it was a Faceless Man with foul-smelling white slurry instead of blood.
• The other zombies also found the village residents inedible, and a transparent barrier enclosed the village and lifted it into the sky.
• Deathstroke and an elderly man discussed using the Faceless Men as bait, while Reed explained that Harley had brought one from the Dreaming and that he had created the village and its inhabitants.
• Iron Man said he had a backup plan as the group emerged from the atmosphere with the captured zombies.
• Reed rejected imprisoning the zombies in the Negative Zone or Quantum Realm and said he would send them into the sun.

Elderly Reed demonstrated his power by creating a sun and burning the zombies trapped in a snow globe, then led the group back to confront Zombie Reed’s unfinished machine. After Zombie Captain America blocked Reed’s attack, Reed asked Deathstroke for help, and Su Ming offered to fight either Zombie Reed or Zombie Captain America.

• Elderly Reed urged Miles and the others to hold on to hope and never give up their humanity.
• Elderly Reed created a sun, trapped the zombies in a snow globe, and incinerated them inside it.
• Su Ming and the others descended to confront Zombie Reed before he finished assembling his machine.
• Elderly Reed attacked the machine, but Zombie Captain America blocked the beam with his shield.
• Elderly Reed asked Deathstroke for help, and Su Ming conjured a lightsaber and asked which zombie to fight.

Deathstroke kept the Zombie Captain occupied with food and a riddle while the Ultimates and their allies fought the other zombies. The chapter ended with the Zombie Captain stumped by Deathstroke’s question about when Nick Fury would die.

• Su Ming assigned the Ultimates opponents and warned them not to be scratched or bitten while Tony deployed an EMP Storm and Loki prepared magical protection.
• Deathstroke drew the Zombie Captain away from the others and tempted him with ham sausage and roasted quail.
• The Ultimates and their allies engaged the zombie heroes, while Invisible Woman protected the group with force fields.
• Deathstroke offered the Zombie Captain a guessing game and then posed a riddle about a man choosing between a tiger and a woman, ending with a question about Nick Fury.

Deathstroke distracted Zombie Captain with a feast of roasted meat while Strangle destroyed the captain’s cement mixer. When the captain put down his shield to claim a whale, Deathstroke decapitated him and burned the battlefield’s pile of meat.

• Deathstroke tempted Zombie Captain with riddles and rewarded his guesses with roasted food.
• Zombie Captain greedily ate the animal meat and kept guessing, while Strangle secretly destroyed the cement mixer behind him.
• Deathstroke hinted that the next food was very big, and Zombie Captain put down his shield to guess roasted whale.
• Deathstroke threw his shield instead, beheading Zombie Captain as the head rolled beside the meat.
• Deathstroke tossed Artificer Melta Bombs onto the meat and the captain’s remains, setting them ablaze.

Su Ming burned Zombie Captain America and watched the battlefield while his allies fought the remaining zombies, then prepared to leave with Jessica and Skye. A huge shadow suddenly covered them as they joked aboard Cloak.

• Su Ming burned Zombie Captain America, destroyed his shield, and had Strangler return the Arc Reactor from the ruined Teleportation Portal.
• Adjutant reported that nineteen Earths had been gathered, but Doctor Doom had not found the Constructors.
• Su Ming left the battlefield to the Ultimates and local Avengers, then wondered how the Zombie Heroes had reached Earth-X without using the portal.
• Loki tried shooting zombies with Su Ming’s rifle while Jessica and Skye discussed their pasts and playfully argued.
• A massive shadow suddenly passed overhead, plunging Su Ming and the others into darkness.

Su Ming and his companions realized zombie Galactus could be defeated by exploiting his weakness to heat and planned to use the sun Heavenly Reed had made. Before they could carry out the plan, Su Ming struck Galactus’s head so hard that it flew out of the atmosphere.

• Su Ming recognized the enormous rotten head as Galactus, and Loki questioned whether the Planet Eater could consume Earth.
• Su Ming explained that Galactus could not eat stars and revealed that they would use Heavenly Reed’s sun against him.
• Galactus sucked violently at the battlefield, drawing in the living and the zombies below.
• Su Ming struck Galactus’s jaw, sending his head out of the atmosphere with a streak of light following close behind.

Deathstroke sent Zombie Galactus’s head flying into the void, then created a cold Black Sun to swallow it. The void turned glaring white as Galactus disappeared inside.

• Deathstroke struck Zombie Galactus’s head so hard that it flew far into the void, leaving Earth as a distant glimmer.
• Deathstroke explained to Skye that she could not survive in the void, while Jessica and Skye lay down on the flying carpet and accepted their role as spectators.
• Zombie Galactus stopped spinning and cried that he was hungry, suffering from an incurable Phantom Hunger.
• Deathstroke said he would fight Galactus in the void rather than risk drawing the Celestials to Earth, then created a pale, cold Black Sun.
• Deathstroke’s Black Sun swallowed Galactus’s head, and its light turned the void glaring white.

Old Reed defeated Zombie Reed and the zombie heroes on Earth-X, ending the Zombie Crisis. Deathstroke and his allies departed, while Old Reed prepared to rejoin the Avengers and face the next crisis.

• Heavenly Reed sealed off Zombie Reed's escape and infection methods, then reduced Zombie Reed and the zombie heroes to ashes.
• Deathstroke returned with his group and warned Old Reed to ensure the Zombie Virus had been thoroughly dealt with.
• Deathstroke hinted that Old Reed could join his plans, but Old Reed declined and focused on surviving the immediate threats.
• Su Ming confirmed that everyone was safe, and Deathstroke gathered the group aboard the Cloak of Levitation to leave Earth-X.
• Old Reed restored the battlefield and told his robot that Deathstroke was an ordinary human walking an unprecedented path before entering a Teleportation Portal to rendezvous with the Avengers.

Su Ming left Earth-1610 with Miles, Jesse Drew, Skye, and the others after securing Peter’s blood from Fury. The group reached Sepulk, where Su Ming said he would gather intelligence before returning to their 40K.

• Deathstroke revealed that Fury had secretly arranged for a lightspeed Cosmic Flight craft, then took the promised Peter blood and refused to settle on Earth-1610.
• Su Ming insisted that Miles and Jesse Drew could choose their own futures, then departed with them and the others using Cloak.
• The Ultimates discussed whether Deathstroke might become an enemy and prepared for a new round of opponents.
• At Sepulk, Jessica realized the group was at a mechanical planet outside the Multiverse, and Su Ming said he would gather intelligence before returning to their 40K.

Deathstroke arranged new homes for Miles and Spider-Woman, then brought Loki, Jessica, and Skye to inspect the gains and facilities on Sepulk. The group reached a ward holding injured heroes, while the Adjutant reported that Holloway was suffering from diarrhea in the director’s restroom.

• Deathstroke offered Miles and Spider-Woman places to live, and the Adjutant teleported them to the Main World.
• Deathstroke took Loki, Jessica, and Skye to inspect Sepulk and its nearby planets, and Skye accepted that she was likely an Inhuman.
• The group entered a hospital-like building where Deathstroke and the Adjutant discussed medical projects and Gene-Seed technology.
• Jessica recognized the unconscious square-faced Carol in a ward, and Deathstroke asked where Holloway was.
• The Adjutant said Holloway had eaten aquatic grass from Planet Y-31 and was suffering from diarrhea in the director’s restroom.

Su Ming learned that a male Loki had taken 40K Thor through a portal and suspected someone was interfering with the Timeline. He prepared to investigate with Jessica, while Skye returned home and the Adjutant began searching for Beta Ray Bill.

• Su Ming ordered the captured Heroes brainwashed and sent back to Earth-1610.
• The Adjutant showed footage of Lady Loki tricking Thor into elephant dung before a male Loki took him through a portal.
• Lady Loki asked Su Ming to help bring Thor back, and he invited Jessica and Skye to investigate the Timeline with him.
• Jessica accepted in exchange for premium ice cream, while Skye declined and returned home after promising to keep the events secret.
• Su Ming told Lady Loki to message Frigga that they were traveling, then asked the Adjutant to locate Beta Ray Bill.

Deathstroke and Loki explained to Beta Ray Bill that the TVA had deceived him about the Sacred Timeline and the Lokis it wanted him to hunt. Bill realized the TVA had fabricated a single timeline to preserve itself at the End of Time.

• Deathstroke brought Beta Ray Bill to the hospital and introduced himself as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.
• Bill told Deathstroke and Loki that the TVA had detained his fleet and recruited him to find Lokis accused of destroying the Sacred Timeline.
• Loki denied the TVA's authority, and Deathstroke used the Time Stone to demonstrate that he could manipulate time.
• Deathstroke and Loki explained the TVA's timeline problem by comparing it to the Y2K computer bug.
• Bill concluded that the TVA had invented the Sacred Timeline so it could survive the End of Time.