Chapter Summaries

Deathstroke agreed to help Beta Ray Bill rescue his people and fleet from the TVA, suspecting Kang was manipulating the organization. The group traveled to Loyalty Academy, where Little Wong prepared an unusual breakfast.

• Beta Ray Bill explained that the TVA had detained his people and tricked him into helping them find Loki, and Deathstroke offered to rescue them.
• Deathstroke agreed with the Adjutant that Kang might be behind the TVA’s actions and decided to accept the trouble as a gift.
• Beta Ray Bill accepted Deathstroke’s offer, and Su Ming had the Adjutant teleport the group to Loyalty Academy.
• Holloway arrived after the others had left and received a tin of mustache wax from the Adjutant.
• At Loyalty Academy, Beta Ray Bill blasted a furball monster into Little Wong’s pot, and Little Wong said he would serve its fur as noodles.

Deathstroke performed a rooftop offering to summon Hoggoth and asked him to contact Agamotto about the Time Variance Authority headquarters in the 40K Universe. Hoggoth instead offered to provide the location himself, leaving Deathstroke with the coordinates he needed.

• Deathstroke and Little Wong prepared a ritual offering while Jessica encountered and killed a shark in the bathroom.
• Little Wong led Deathstroke, Loki, Jessica, and Beta Ray Bill to the rooftop, where Deathstroke burned paper offerings and called for Hoggoth.
• Hoggoth appeared and warned Deathstroke that burning spirit money could eventually send him off for good.
• Deathstroke asked Hoggoth to pass Agamotto a message about Little Bug slipping into the roots of the Timeline tree and to find the Time Variance Authority headquarters in the 40K Universe.
• After accepting the offerings, Hoggoth said he already knew the headquarters location and offered the Time Point coordinates.

Deadpool patrolled New York hoping to stop a crime and get free publicity for his mercenary business. He found Harley and her companions robbing Wilson Department Store, and his plan to make the news fell apart.

• Deadpool wandered the streets, complained about his invitations being changed, and ignored a small grocery-store robbery because it was not newsworthy.
• After hearing that someone was seeking a way to reach a certain Time Point, Deadpool exercised while waiting for them to find him.
• Deadpool heard an alarm at Wilson Department Store and entered, hoping to recover stolen goods and attract publicity.
• Deadpool found the night guards unconscious with exaggerated lipstick smiles, covered them with a blanket, and realized Harley was responsible.
• Harley arrived with Hela, Daisy, Gwenpool, and a duck, all carrying the department store’s stolen merchandise.
• Deadpool gave up on his publicity scheme and asked whether his cousin allowed them to rob the family store.

Harley turned a wedding-supply trip into a nighttime shopping spree with Hela, Gwenpool, Daisy, and Thor, leaving Deadpool behind. Deathstroke stabbed Deadpool, then took him along with a female detective and Beta Ray Bill to visit the Time Variance Authority headquarters and use his belt and gems.

• Harley persuaded the women to dress up for Deadpool’s wedding, then led them in a mall robbery drill while Thor broke in, Hela subdued the guards, and Gwenpool moved them to the security room.
• The women shopped, ate, and got beauty treatments before Harley led them away to visit Howard’s zoo, leaving Deadpool with the unconscious guards.
• Deadpool pretended to grieve so Harley would comfort him, but Deathstroke arrived instead and stabbed him with the Godslayer dagger.
• Deathstroke explained to the female detective how to recognize someone faking death, while Deadpool complained that he could not make his act realistic without props.
• Deathstroke picked Deadpool up and announced they were going to the Time Variance Authority headquarters between the Timelines to use Deadpool’s belt and gems.

Su Ming’s group explored a TVA archive and learned that its apparent millions of agents were only a few hundred people represented across different Time Points. After finding a recording of Atlantis’s destruction filed as a 1920 Earth-616 event, Su Ming suspected the TVA’s records concealed a deeper problem and ordered everyone to search for more recent files.

• Deathstroke explained that the group had come to rescue Thor and Beta Ray Bill’s people, restart the TVA’s Three-God Mainframe, and find and kill Kang the Conqueror.
• Su Ming explained that the TVA’s sixty million agents were temporal counterparts, while its actual staff numbered only a few hundred, and Jessica described how those versions could appear.
• Loki discovered that he could not use magic or divine power in the Time Point, so Su Ming handed him a rotary cannon.
• Su Ming played a TVA recording labeled “1920, Earth-616, Deviation in Human Birth,” which showed ape-men being swallowed by a flood.
• Su Ming suspected Ancient One had known about the TVA and ordered the group to search newer records for evidence about themselves.

Deathstroke and the others watched tapes showing disastrous timelines that he had prevented from becoming reality. After seeing several alternate versions of Earth and Asgard destroyed, Deadpool pointed out that none of the footage included him or Deathstroke.

• Jessica found a tape of an alternate 2000 New York invasion, and Deathstroke explained that he had stopped that possibility from taking root in their timeline.
• Loki gave Deathstroke a tape showing Ragnarök, where Thor and The Serpent died and Odin survived, leaving Loki distressed by the deaths of Frigga and Thor.
• Loki asked to see another Ragnarök possibility, where she died and Thor celebrated at her funeral, then stopped watching.
• Jessica and Deadpool supplied tapes showing other disasters, including Civil War, Captain America joining Hydra, a zombie Earth, and Onslaught destroying the world.
• Deadpool claimed the tragedies happened because their timelines lacked him and Deathstroke.

Su Ming left the others in the Dark Room and went to find tools, suspecting Kang might be manipulating the TVA. He explored the TVA’s immense complex and followed a squad of guards, preparing to investigate further.

• Su Ming ordered Loki, Jessica, and Deadpool to stay in the Dark Room while he went to get supplies.
• Deadpool asked for a mental labor allowance, and Deathstroke knocked him unconscious with the Owl Dagger.
• Su Ming used Strangle’s Chameleon-derived genes to turn invisible and walked through the TVA, admiring its vast city-like surroundings.
• Su Ming tried the TVA’s coffee, found it weak and full of stimulants, and decided he would replace the machines with Wilson Enterprises vending machines.
• Su Ming spotted a squad of guards and followed them invisibly down the corridor.

Deathstroke and Strangle secretly killed a seven-man TVA patrol, then disguised Deathstroke's group in the guards' uniforms and headed for the Court of Owls Tower. They reached the transit station without raising suspicion and prepared to board a transport, where Deathstroke warned Deadpool not to expose them.

• Deathstroke and Strangle silently picked off the entire TVA patrol and took its equipment.
• Strangle reported that all seven guards had identical appearances, DNA, and health traits, while Deathstroke dismissed the mystery and estimated their number by their combined weight.
• The group changed into the guards' uniforms, and Deathstroke learned from Strangle that the patrol had been sent toward a station with access to the Court of Owls Tower.
• Deathstroke led Loki, Jessica, and Deadpool through the archive tower to the transit platform, where Deadpool complained about the guards' lack of initiative.
• As a transport approached, Deathstroke explained that the guards obeyed the Three Gods without question and warned Deadpool to protect their disguise at the Court of Owls Tower.

Su Ming and his companions watched a Loki variant sentenced to death in the TVA, then discussed how timelines and parallel universes worked. Su Ming revealed that Earth-616 was not the template for their parallel worlds and pointed to the sole Earth within the First Firmament instead.

• The TVA judge sentenced Loki Laufeyson to death after his attempt to use magic failed, and a bailiff turned him to ash.
• Su Ming, Loki, Deathstroke, Wade, Beta Ray Bill, and Jessica regrouped in a storage room and discussed the many Loki variants imprisoned by the TVA.
• Jessica asked whether events that never happened in their universe could happen in parallel universes, and Deathstroke explained how timelines formed a multiverse.
• Su Ming told Jessica that the TVA's account of Earth-616 as the template was mistaken and said the true template was the one Earth within the First Firmament.

Su Ming explained why the TVA misunderstood the origins of time, then decided to lure out a Judge to learn more about the organization. The group split up to ambush Judges in the restrooms, with Loki reluctantly heading for the women's side alongside Jessica.

• Su Ming explained that the TVA mistook the visible beginning of a timeline for the source of all time and that the Prophet gods had misunderstood the Multiverse's history.
• Su Ming said the Judges were tools found throughout the Courts of Owls and that the group needed to capture one and feed its brain to Strangle.
• Deadpool proposed ambushing a Judge in a restroom, and Su Ming agreed to avoid alerting Kang the Conqueror.
• Su Ming assigned himself and Deadpool to the men's restroom, Loki and Jessica to the women's restroom, and Beta Ray Bill to watch the sinks.
• Loki objected to going to the women's restroom, but Deadpool teased her and begged her to turn him into a woman.

Deathstroke’s group captured two Judges in a restroom and used their uniforms to infiltrate the dormitory. After securing the room, Deathstroke told Beta Ray Bill where his people were being held and sent him to wait for a signal before rescuing them.

• Deathstroke and Deadpool hid in restroom stalls, where Deadpool killed a Judge and kept the approaching guards away by pretending to have sex with him.
• Loki captured a female Judge, and the group disguised both victims in spare security uniforms and carried them out among the patrol.
• The group found a Judge’s dormitory, checked it for surveillance, and drowned the two Vegetative State victims in the bathtub to disguise their deaths.
• Deathstroke shared intelligence about Beta’s imprisoned people and the other Lokis, then gave Beta Ray Bill a map and ordered him to wait for a signal.
• Beta Ray Bill took the map, grenades, and communicator and left to prepare for the rescue.

Deathstroke sent Beta Ray Bill toward Port Spire without telling him where the Korbinites were imprisoned, keeping him as a contingency against Kang, while Loki and the others prepared to retrieve Thor. The group reached the Logistics Spire and headed toward the place where Loki had been hiding with Thor.

• Deathstroke admitted that he had sent Beta Ray Bill away because he did not want a robot on the team against a Super AI.
• Deathstroke and Loki revealed that Beta Ray Bill had been sent to Port Spire without the Time Point where the Korbinites were imprisoned.
• Deathstroke explained that the Planet Bomb was only an emergency measure to give Beta Ray Bill a chance against Kang.
• Loki urged the group to retrieve Thor, and Deathstroke agreed to go to the nearby Logistics Spire.
• Deathstroke, Loki, Deadpool, and Jessica entered the vast tower disguised as security guards and walked past clerks processing Timeline records.
• Deathstroke led the group toward the tower's outer edge, where Loki had been hiding with Thor.

Deathstroke, Lady Loki, and Wade interrupted Thor and a long-haired Loki in Asgard, where they suspected the Loki was an impostor. Deathstroke prepared to fight him after rescuing Thor, while the man insisted he was the Prince of Asgard.

• Thor and the long-haired Loki played together in Asgard and promised they would never be separated.
• Deathstroke and his group arrived through a doorway in a tree, and Lady Loki called Thor over.
• Lady Loki took a Gatling Gun and accused the long-haired Loki of being an impostor.
• Cloak pulled Thor away from the long-haired Loki and dropped him beside Deathstroke's group.
• Deathstroke drew his lightsaber, and Wade said they would kill the man whether or not he was really Loki.

Deathstroke and Jessica exposed the apparent Loki as Kang the Conqueror, who had lured them into his No-Time domain to pursue his plan to become Supreme Kang. Deathstroke revealed he had anticipated the trap and brought only Thor with him, while the others had been illusions.

• Deathstroke had Jessica explain that the room’s technology, enlarged space, and Kang’s special treatment by the Time-Keepers proved the apparent Loki was an impostor.
• Kang the Conqueror dropped his Loki disguise and challenged Deathstroke, who said Kang had used Thor as bait to draw in Loki and target his gem.
• Kang activated the gem on his wrist and transported them into No-Time, his independent temporal closed-loop dimension.
• Deathstroke said he already knew about Kang’s plans, the Council of Kangs, and his ambition to become Supreme Kang.
• Kang declared that Deathstroke had fallen into his trap, but Deathstroke revealed Loki was not there and that Jessica and Deadpool had been illusions made from Symbiotes and Cosmic Energy.

Su Ming revealed how he had deceived Supreme Kang and trapped him in the Timeless Domain, where Kang could not escape. With Thor ready to fight, Su Ming left the confrontation poised to begin.

• Su Ming explained that he had used Cosmic Energy, Strangle's tentacles, and the MP3 to stage an illusion for Kang.
• Kang tried to escape using his armor's gem, but Su Ming stopped him with his own Forever Crystal fragment and the Time Stone.
• Supreme Kang claimed the Timeless Domain had fixed his state as alive and healthy, then demanded to know when Su Ming had switched people.
• Su Ming explained that he had used disguised guards, staged movements, and Beta Ray Bill as bait to mislead Kang and isolate him.
• Thor asked Su Ming if they could start fighting, angered that Kang had impersonated Loki and deceived him.

Deathstroke confronted Supreme Kang in the void, while Thor joined the fight but discovered he could not summon lightning there. The chapter ended with Kang freezing Thor with his Time Stasis Gun as Thor charged him.

• Deathstroke struck Supreme Kang with a leaping sword slash, cutting off one of Kang's arms before Kang fired his Time Stasis Gun.
• Deathstroke resisted the gun's time-stopping effect and explained that another version of Kang had warned him about Kang's connection to the universe.
• Thor stepped forward to fight beside Deathstroke and tried to summon lightning, but Deathstroke explained that lightning could not form in a vacuum.
• Thor charged Supreme Kang with his axe, and Kang shot him with the Time Stasis Gun, freezing him in place.

Su Ming defeated Kang despite his use of the Hammer of the Unworthy Thor, then trapped him and began draining his life with a Ruur Crystal. He questioned Kang about using the TVA to capture Lokis and threatened to torment him by altering his memories.

• Kang summoned lightning with the Hammer of the Unworthy Thor and challenged Su Ming to a second round.
• Su Ming recognized the hammer, then cut Kang in half as Kang flew in to attack.
• Strangle pinned Kang with a Ruur Crystal and began draining his life force while keeping him alive.
• Su Ming explained that Strangle controlled every cell in Kang’s body and asked whether Kang planned to use captured Lokis as a Doom Lock.
• Kang stayed silent, so Su Ming ordered Strangle to read his memories and implant memories of growing up eating Deadpool.

Su Ming tortured Kang until he chose death, then looted his belongings and returned with Thor to the others. Back in the dormitory, Jessica quit losing at cards, and the group resumed their conversation.

• Su Ming used Strangle to torment Kang with the fear of losing his mind until Kang willingly changed the space so he could die.
• Su Ming collected Kang’s Ruur Crystal, pistols, hammer, shoes, and other valuables, then had Strangle destroy Kang’s head.
• Su Ming took Thor and returned with Strangle to the Asgardian grove, where he ordered Cloak to retrieve the projection equipment.
• Su Ming returned to the dormitory and handed Thor to Loki while Jessica quit the poker game after losing repeatedly to Loki and Deadpool.
• Su Ming explained Loki’s and Deadpool’s card-playing skills, and Deadpool reminisced about his time as a child soldier before Su Ming urged him to kill anyone who criticized him.

Deathstroke took control of the Time Variance Authority and its Three Gods computer, leaving Deadpool behind to prepare a wedding venue with Thor, Jessica, and Beta Ray Bill. Back at Kamar-Taj, Su Ming learned that five Earths remained in the Multiversity plan and asked the Adjutant to contact Master Merlin about Starlight Citadel’s destruction.

• Deathstroke restored Thor after Loki’s efforts failed, then invited the siblings to join him at the Time Variance Authority.
• Su Ming took over the Time Variance Authority, installed the Adjutant, and promised Deadpool a spire for his wedding venue.
• Deadpool stayed behind to decorate the venue and persuaded Thor, Jessica, Beta Ray Bill, and Beta Ray Bill’s people to help.
• The Adjutant erased the Three Gods by uploading a copy of her Split Program to their servers.
• At Kamar-Taj, the Adjutant reported that five Earths remained and that Earth-616’s Avengers and the Dark Order had fought without major losses.
• Su Ming learned that the Beyonders had destroyed Starlight Citadel and asked the Adjutant to contact Master Merlin.

Su Ming spoke with Merlin about the destruction of Starlight Citadel and learned that Merlin saw its collapse as an opportunity for change. Su Ming then prepared to meet Doom and deal with the spectators outside the arena.

• The chapter described how Queen Sat-Yr-9’s bureaucratic rule had weakened Starlight Citadel and left it vulnerable to threats targeting Earth-616.
• Su Ming contacted Merlin and asked about Starlight Citadel’s destruction.
• Merlin suggested that Ultimate Merlin’s Knights’ downfall might benefit his own Earth-40K, while denying that he took pleasure in their misfortune.
• Su Ming asked whether the Citadel’s residents would cause trouble, and Merlin joked that Deadman would not unless there was a zombie outbreak.
• Su Ming ended the call, told Loki they would meet Doom, and said they still needed to watch the spectators outside the arena.