Chapter Summaries

Su Ming used poisoned hot pot and a suicide soldier’s explosive prank to incapacitate and torment the Trolls, while winning Ratatoskr’s admiration with his crude humor. He promised to supply her with prank props and help her target Thor after they killed Ulik.

• Su Ming’s poisoned food made the Trolls collapse with severe diarrhea, while Ratatoskr and Deathstroke watched and joked about the chaos.
• Su Ming explained that he had planned to impress Ratatoskr and recruit her as an ally, and Strangle gathered the incapacitated Trolls around the suicide soldier.
• Strangle triggered the suicide soldier’s fireworks, spreading acid and magical powders over the helpless Trolls.
• Ratatoskr praised Su Ming’s pranks, and he promised to provide her with props and help her prank Thor after they killed Ulik.

Su Ming learned that a Dark Elf fleet had been found and decided to investigate Malekith and the Dark Elves for their technology. As Squirrel Girl recounted Svartalfheim’s history, she explained how King Klaw’s wars devastated the realm and Odin’s Bifrost attack forced Malekith’s people into exile.

• Su Ming ordered the Troll corpses moved to Contraxia and told the Adjutant to confirm the identity of a detected fleet and keep watch on it.
• Su Ming chose to investigate the Dark Elves himself, hoping to uncover the origins of their cloaking, transportation, and Cursed Warrior technologies.
• Squirrel Girl told Su Ming that Svartalfheim had once been a prosperous, swamp-filled realm populated by Dark Elves and other races.
• Squirrel Girl explained that King Klaw’s relentless wars exhausted Svartalfheim’s resources, poisoned its environment, and devastated its population.
• Squirrel Girl said Malekith took the throne after killing King Klaw, but Odin attacked Svartalfheim with the Bifrost, forcing Malekith and the surviving Dark Elves to flee.

Su Ming and his companions entered Alfheim’s underground world to find the Trolls, and Ratatoskr led them toward a rainbow-lit lake where they discovered a battlefield. Diana raced ahead and began fighting the creatures there while Su Ming and Carol followed.

• Su Ming asked Ratatoskr how to find the Trolls, and she claimed she could locate anyone in the Nine Realms.
• Diana spotted a distant underground lake and suggested they investigate it for the Trolls.
• Ratatoskr took off in a race toward the lake, and Diana chased after her.
• Su Ming and Carol followed at a slower pace while discussing Diana’s responsibilities and personality.
• Diana reached the far side of the lake and began attacking the magical beasts and nonhuman creatures there.

Su Ming and Carol found Diana fighting the Trolls while Ratatoskr watched from the sidelines, then Su Ming followed the squirrel’s directions to Ulik’s hidden cave. The chapter ended with Ulik spotting Su Ming and swinging his spiked club at him.

• Su Ming and Carol saw Diana surrounded by Trolls as Ratatoskr relaxed nearby and watched her fight.
• Su Ming scolded Ratatoskr for baiting Diana into battle, and Ratatoskr explained that Ulik was likely eating alone nearby.
• Su Ming left Diana and Carol to handle the Trolls while Ratatoskr used her tail to locate Ulik’s concealed cave.
• Su Ming and Ratatoskr arrived at the cave, where Ulik was peeking out at the battle beside his enormous private cooking pot.
• Ulik recognized Su Ming as the Sorcerer Supreme, roared, and brought his spiked club down toward him.

Ratatoskr fought Ulik but could not break through his magically resistant, radioactive scab armor, so Su Ming arranged for a specialized weapon to be delivered. The chapter ended as he loaded a white bead into his slingshot and prepared to use it against the Troll King.

• Ratatoskr transformed into a gigantic squirrel and fought Ulik, while Su Ming told her to keep the Troll King alive.
• Su Ming's space-cutting sword beam failed to defeat Ulik because his magnetic scabs pulled his severed arm back and healed it.
• Su Ming asked Adjutant to find a mage skilled in Scourgify, but rejected Baron Mordo and Ron as candidates.
• Ratatoskr reported that Ulik's scab armor resisted her attacks and magic, while Su Ming waited for a delivery.
• A white bead arrived, and Su Ming loaded it into his slingshot as the weapon he had designed to counter troll scab armor.

Deathstroke used a magical beauty potion to strip Ulik of his Scab Armor, leaving the Troll King smooth-skinned and defenseless. With the squirrel ready to attack, Deathstroke approached Ulik and suggested the beauty treatment should continue from the inside out.

• Deathstroke fired a Sugar Bean containing concentrated sheep placenta extract and Madam Primpernelle's hair-removal potion into Ulik's mouth.
• Ulik's Scab Armor peeled away as the potion removed his hair and smoothed his skin.
• The squirrel questioned whether the potion was beauty treatment or a prank, and Deathstroke explained how removing Ulik's hair and wrinkles caused his armor to fall off.
• Deathstroke cited an ancient saying about hair losing its foundation and moved toward the helpless Ulik with his Lightsaber.

After defeating the Troll army, Diana and Carol joined Deathstroke and Squirrel Girl, who had captured the still-living Troll King Ulik. Deathstroke preserved Ulik’s head so he could keep it alive as a talking trophy and torment it indefinitely.

• Diana praised Carol’s fighting skill, and Carol said Jean Grey and the Ancient One were stronger; Diana revealed she had met the Ancient One.
• Diana and Carol crossed the lake and found Deathstroke and Squirrel Girl preparing Ulik’s head with quicklime.
• Deathstroke explained that he planned to keep Ulik’s head alive, recalling how Odin had once consulted Mímir’s living head.
• Deathstroke removed the stone blocking Ulik’s mouth, and when Ulik said to kill him, Strangle stuffed his mouth with quicklime.
• Deathstroke told Ulik he would display the talking head in a crowded place and make his torment a warning to anyone who invaded Earth.

After defeating the Trolls in Alfheim, Su Ming prepared to pursue Malekith while Squirrel declined to join him and went to trade at the market. The group returned to the royal city, where Diana questioned Su Ming about the surveillance feed he had borrowed from Batwoman.

• Squirrel praised Su Ming's prank on Ulik and chose to visit the market instead of joining him against the Dark Elves.
• Su Ming lifted Alfheim's spatial lockdown, had the Adjutant collect the Troll corpses, and promised to visit Squirrel and Angerboda after Yggdrasil revived.
• Squirrel warned Su Ming that Angerboda could drive humans insane, and he reassured her before the group left the cavern.
• Squirrel said goodbye with Su Ming's gifts, while Carol admired her and Su Ming promised to send Thor and Sif to visit her.
• Su Ming learned that Bobo was studying Eternia with Constantine and decided not to bring him along to face Malekith.
• Diana challenged Su Ming about monitoring Justice League Dark, and he explained that the Adjutant had borrowed Batwoman's surveillance signal and suggested persuading Alfred to influence her.

Harley returned with Gwenpool, but Gwenpool had become too drunk to help with the plan, so Su Ming summoned Deadpool as a replacement. Back in Sepulk, Deadpool claimed he had a terminal illness and gave Deathstroke the key to his locker, revealing that his supposed legacy was a collection of adult tapes.

• Harley and Gwenpool returned to the bridgehead drunk, and Su Ming decided Gwenpool needed to rest while someone else took her place in the plan.
• Su Ming had the team teleport to Sepulk and summoned Deadpool to join them.
• Deadpool sighed and told Deathstroke that he believed he was dying from an incurable illness.
• Deadpool gave Deathstroke the key to his Central Subway Station locker and asked him to inherit its contents.
• Deadpool revealed that the locker held his collection of adult tapes, which he wanted preserved for future generations.

Deadpool mistook his split poop for a serious illness, then learned he had forgotten to remove his T-string panties. Su Ming’s group teleported near Hevenheim, where the Dark Elf forces had gathered, and prepared to approach.

• Deadpool theatrically described his fear of dying before revealing that his poop had split in two.
• Harley recognized Deadpool’s complaint as a joke, while Su Ming explained that Deadpool had forgotten to remove his T-string panties.
• Su Ming teleported the group to space near the edge of the universe, where Deadpool reassured his livestream audience that he had not been acting.
• Diana questioned why the bright golden nation seemed unlike a Dark Elf home, and Su Ming said his scouts had led them to Hevenheim.
• Su Ming learned that the two remaining enemy forces had joined up and signaled the Cloak of Levitation to sneak toward the nation.

Su Ming and his team infiltrated Hevenheim, the gold-covered, militarized dimension of the angels, and headed for its royal palace to seize it. Su Ming assigned targets for the coming assassination, leaving the team poised to attack the Angel Queen and Malekith.

• Su Ming explained that Odin had torn Hevenheim from Yggdrasil and banished it after the angels attacked the Golden Palace and abducted infant Angela.
• Su Ming led Carol, Deadpool, and Little Dai through Hevenheim’s sewers, where they saw its gold-alloy infrastructure and learned the dimension had become highly mechanized.
• Carol admired Hevenheim’s golden appearance, while Deadpool tried to pry up a gold bar and Su Ming stopped him, claiming the dimension and its gold as his own.
• Su Ming directed the group toward the royal palace and assigned himself the Angel Queen, Carol the task of killing Malekith, and the minions to Wade.

Deathstroke devised a plan to impersonate Dark Elves and angels, provoking conflict in Hevenheim to reveal the Angel Queen and Malekith’s locations. He assigned the women to pose as angels and ordered the Adjutant to retrieve Hawkman’s wing harnesses for their disguises.

• Deathstroke and Diana found that Hevenheim’s crowded golden buildings made the palace difficult to identify.
• Deathstroke transformed into a Dark Elf and explained that he would impersonate both sides to stir up conflict and draw out their leaders.
• Deathstroke told Carol, Diana, and Harley to impersonate angels and kill Dark Elves.
• The Adjutant reported that Carter Hall remained unconscious in a vegetative state.
• Deathstroke asked the Adjutant to bring him Hawkman’s wing harnesses from the hospital and two homes.

Su Ming sent Diana, Carol, and Deadpool to pose as angels and attack Dark Elves, hoping to provoke a conflict between the Dark Elves and the angels. He and Harley stayed behind to monitor events and prepare to exploit any leaders who intervened.

• Su Ming took Hawkman and Hawkgirl's wing equipment and gave it to Diana, Carol, and Deadpool, then sent them out to kill Dark Elves in public while disguised as angels.
• Su Ming told Diana to show no mercy to the Dark Elves, and she agreed to avenge the victims of their attacks on Earth.
• Harley recognized that Su Ming had deliberately grouped three melee fighters together as bait to trigger a retaliatory attack.
• Su Ming explained that the cloaked Dark Elf mothership was overhead and that he intended to use the ensuing chaos to ambush either Malekith or the Angel Queen with the Ultimate Nullifier.
• Su Ming and Harley set out to watch the battle and prepare to cause fires and explosions if needed.

Diana, Carol, and Deadpool attacked a slave market where Dark Elves were buying humans, while Su Ming and Harley watched from above and discussed Darkseid and the Great Darkness. The raid continued as Su Ming resumed their dance game and ordered two bags of cement.

• Deadpool identified a marketplace as their target, and Carol spotted humans being sold there alongside Dark Elf buyers.
• Diana ordered Carol to rescue the captives and Deadpool to kill the Dark Elf buyers, while she drove off the slave traders.
• Diana reminded Deadpool not to kill angels, and he charged into the market wearing a Marilyn Monroe dress and a golden wig.
• Su Ming and Harley watched the fight from the invisible Cloak of Levitation while playing a dance arcade game.
• Su Ming told Harley that he had obtained the Great Darkness and was studying it, then requested another song and two bags of cement.

Diana freed the human captives while Deadpool and Captain Marvel fought the Dark Elves and angels at the golden plaza. The trio flew off to attack more Dark Elves before the angels could seal the area.

• Diana knocked out the slave traders, opened the golden cage, and asked Adjutant to evacuate the captives.
• Adjutant teleported the captives and several unconscious angels away, warning Diana that the humans would be isolated and made to forget their rescue.
• Deadpool killed the Dark Elves who had come to buy slaves, while Captain Marvel knocked out the angels who tried to stop the trio.
• Diana, Deadpool, and Captain Marvel reunited, confirmed the Dark Elves at the plaza were dead, and flew off to find more targets.
• Deadpool showed Diana and Captain Marvel jewelry he had stolen from the angels, then chipped a tooth biting a gold-painted bracelet.

Deathstroke and Harley set the Golden City ablaze to provoke the angels and draw the Angel Queen's attention. After they left in pursuit of Little Dai's group, Finandel's guard arrived and reported suspected Dark Elf arson to the Queen.

• Harley asked Deathstroke to burn the Golden City so she could observe how the angels reacted to the fire.
• Deathstroke used Strangle to drop Napalm Bombs around the square and planted arson equipment beside the Dark Elf corpses.
• Deathstroke and Harley left invisibly to follow Little Dai's group and consider setting fire to more places.
• Finandel and the angel guard arrived, found unconscious angels and burning buildings, and rescued the fallen.
• Finandel ordered a messenger to report the suspected Dark Elf looting and arson to the Queen.

The Angel Queen and Malekith blamed each other for a massacre in Hevenheim while discovering that their forces could not contact their ships. Su Ming kept the operation against the invaders’ hospital on course as Diana, Carol, and Wade attacked from different directions.

• The Angel Queen accused Malekith’s people of setting fires in her realm, while Malekith claimed her people had robbed and attacked his own.
• Malekith urged the Angel Queen to flee with him, but she refused to abandon Hevenheim and pointed out that his motherships were no longer answering.
• Su Ming learned that someone had sent the Queen and Malekith intelligence about the arson massacre, but the Adjutant could not yet locate the sender.
• Su Ming and the Adjutant discussed the sealed space around Vanaheim and concluded that the Black Bifrost could not help the enemy escape without Yggdrasil’s energy.
• Diana attacked the hospital from the main entrance, Carol descended from the rooftop, and Wade intercepted anyone trying to escape through the windows.

Su Ming and Harley chatted about Rorschach tests while they waited for Little Dai and Carol to advance through the hospital and kill Dark Elves. Deadpool finished off the remaining enemies and joked to himself about the Angel Queen as he waited beneath the hospital wall.

• Su Ming watched Wade kill Dark Elves who had survived their falls while Harley explained how Rorschach test responses could be interpreted.
• Su Ming teased Harley with an elaborate description of a butterfly, and she laughed and kissed him.
• Deadpool tested stolen gold jewelry with his teeth, lost them all, and complained that the Angel Queen and aristocrats had hoarded the real wealth.
• Deadpool imagined persuading Su Ming to spare the Angel Queen for him, then joked about making molds of her before killing her.
• A falling Dark Elf landed within Deadpool's reach, and Deadpool split him in two with his Chainsword.

Diana, Carol, and Deadpool cleared a hospital occupied by Dark Elves and found human corpses being desecrated, so Diana and Carol decided the building should be burned. After the hospital caught fire, Diana led the group toward the airport district to attack the enemy there.

• Diana and Carol killed the Dark Elves inside the hospital and knocked out the angels, while signal jamming prevented anyone nearby from calling for help.
• Diana ordered Deadpool to burn the hospital, and Carol explained that it held many human corpses they could not bring back to Earth.
• Diana stabbed Deadpool through the belly when his complaints about his girlfriends became unbearable, but he healed, put his organs back, and asked her to do it again.
• The hospital caught fire, and Diana decided to leave the ashes for later and head toward the airport district, where Dark Elves might be gathered.

After the fire was set, Su Ming discussed Diana and Carol’s choices and learned that the arriving Angel General Finandel was a hidden opponent of the Angel Queen. He decided to change his plan and seek a vast force of birdfolk from the Akah Ma'at Dimension.

• Deathstroke and Harley joked about Deadpool’s performance while Su Ming arranged the fallen Dark Elves into staged poses.
• Su Ming explained that Diana had chosen to burn the building to purify the desecrated human corpses, while Carol had also supported the fire.
• Harley spotted Finandel arriving with a small squad of angels, and Su Ming identified her as a former attendant to the Angel Queen who pursued fairness and opposed the Queen.
• The Adjutant found no record of Finandel participating in invasions of Earth, and Su Ming inferred that she had lost military authority for opposing the invasion.
• Su Ming activated his backup plan and asked Ancient One to contact Oshtur about borrowing tens of millions of birdfolk from the Akah Ma'at Dimension.