Chapter Summaries

Celestial Destroyer battled CCU while Su Ming’s group tried to preserve the Beyond Realm and its potential spoils. Su Ming revealed that Wade and Dracula had been sent to give CCU emotions, and the group prepared to convince him that destroying the Beyond Realm could not kill them.

• Celestial Destroyer and CCU fought in the void, trading attacks that shifted between energy, matter, and constructed worlds.
• Doom and Wanda maintained a shield while discussing the risk that CCU might destroy the Beyond Realm and the Colored Celestials might arrive.
• Su Ming explained that he had sent Wade and Dracula with adrenaline to give CCU emotional impulses and undermine his will to survive.
• Little Rich proposed showing CCU that their souls and minds could survive the destruction of their bodies, making detonating the Beyond Realm pointless.
• Su Ming contacted Adjutant and ordered Monark to perform a ritual at Kamar-Taj to summon Death, while Doom prepared to bring her there with Zero Matter.

Su Ming's plan to make CCU relapse succeeded when Deadpool and The Grand Duke injected him with adrenaline, turning the cosmic battle into a chaotic brawl. Death arrived, but it was the Maiden from next door, and Su Ming questioned how she had entered the Omniverse.

• Deadpool and The Grand Duke Blinked beneath CCU and fired at his soles before being hurled back beside Deathstroke.
• CCU relapsed into madness, and Celestial Destroyer continued to overpower him in their fight.
• Adjutant told Su Ming that Death had come herself, and Su Ming arranged for Doom to receive her.
• The Maiden appeared beside Deathstroke and explained that she had come to visit and could follow every living person.
• Su Ming told the Maiden she was not the Death he had summoned and asked what she was hiding.

Death explained her role in guiding souls and asked Deathstroke to return the Book of Destiny. Deadpool mistakenly thought she had come to claim Deathstroke, and the chapter left Death waiting for the book while Su Ming watched CCU battle Celestial Destroyer.

• Death described how she comforted the dead and guided their souls to her realm.
• Deadpool offered to go with Death in Deathstroke's place, then made lewd remarks that prompted her to drop his hand.
• Death clarified that she had not come to collect Deathstroke, and Deadpool backed away to count money.
• Death asked Deathstroke to return the Book of Destiny he had taken from Darkseid.
• Su Ming continued watching CCU wrestle with Celestial Destroyer.

Deathstroke discovered that the Book of Destiny was missing and learned that Dream of a Thousand Cats had taken it. He recruited Death to help him turn his team into undead creatures so he could trick CCU into believing his efforts were meaningless.

• Deathstroke searched his waist pouch for the Book of Destiny, but it was gone.
• Deathstroke told Death that Dream of a Thousand Cats had taken the book, and Death decided to let Dream handle the problem.
• Deathstroke suggested that Death arrange for a new Destiny and turn recovering the book into a trial, and Death agreed while warning him that Dream of a Thousand Cats was not Daniel.
• Deathstroke asked Death to help defeat CCU, and she agreed to experience life as a superhero.
• Deathstroke explained that he wanted Death to temporarily make the team undead so he could frighten CCU and convince him that humanity was already dead.

Death pulled Deathstroke’s soul from his body, and he devised a new plan to provoke CCU by taking on its appearance and staging spectacular deaths. He brought Death to TVA headquarters and asked Gin to record their planned acts across different Time Points.

• Death pulled Deathstroke’s soul from his body, leaving Strangle in control of the physical body while Deathstroke watched as a spirit.
• Little Rich proposed that Deathstroke’s condition was Dimensional Descent, but Deathstroke and Doctor Doom explained the limits of that theory.
• Wanda changed Deathstroke’s face to match CCU’s humanoid appearance and gave his soul a solid silver-white shell.
• Deathstroke asked Victor to use Zero Matter to transport him and Death to TVA headquarters, where he showed her around the Wonder building.
• Gin arrived at Screening Room 6666, mistook Death for a new sister, and learned that Deathstroke wanted her to record their planned performances across different Time Points.

Deathstroke and Death traveled in soul form through the Timeline to a recorded apocalypse caused by the Cosmic Bumper-Car Incident, hoping to use time-related phenomena to deceive CCU. They searched the collapsing world for the Beyonders while Gin monitored their trip from TVA.

• Deathstroke told Gin he wanted to visit the Cosmic Bumper-Car Incident and witness the apocalypse in a Parallel World.
• Gin took Deathstroke and Death to an Action Isolation Room and sent them to a recorded Timeline.
• Death asked whether Deathstroke could return to his body, and Death reassured Gin that his soul would remain safe.
• Deathstroke and Death arrived in an unnamed Parallel World during the Multiversity, where two Earths were headed toward a collision.
• Deathstroke estimated the worlds would be destroyed within hours and set out with Death to find the Beyonders.

Su Ming planned to exploit the Cartographers’ presence on the nameless Earth and asked Death to help him stage a convincing death. As they reached Times Square, Death considered his offer to experience a human lifetime through differences in timeline speed, while Su Ming prepared to face the robots.

• Su Ming explained that the Cartographers had come to Earth after Doom took its Molecule Man, and planned to wear CCU’s face so they would kill him.
• While flying with Death, Su Ming proposed that she live a full human life in another universe by taking advantage of differences in timeline speed.
• Death said that time and space belonged to Dream’s realm of dreams, and told Su Ming to seek the truth for himself.
• Su Ming and Death found two Cartographers assembling a huge metal ring in Times Square.
• Su Ming asked Death what the most miserable death she had witnessed was, and she answered that it was dying with no one knowing.

Su Ming returned from staging a gruesome death for the Cartographers and planned to trap them in a repeating temporal maze using thousands of recordings. He invited Death to join the next staged encounter, and she eagerly considered acting in it.

• Su Ming rejected Death’s suggested death and staged himself as a homeless man killed by the Cartographers in a historical recording.
• Su Ming returned to the TVA and explained that he could enter recorded moments, then asked Gin to prepare another short video.
• Gin asked whether the enemy had time-related abilities, and Su Ming explained that he planned ten thousand repetitions to overwhelm the Beyonders’ linear sense of time.
• Su Ming asked Gin to find recordings of miserable deaths and replace the victims’ faces with his own, with Adjutant’s help.
• Su Ming invited Death to take a role in the next staged encounter, and she asked whether she could act.

Su Ming and Death staged deaths in a doomed universe while the Beyonders built an observation post, and Gin brought Su Ming a filtered collection of people killed by the invaders. The chapter ended with Su Ming watching one death clip and criticizing the burger that had choked its victim.

• Su Ming reshaped his face to look like a student, and Death changed into a goth high school girl before they approached the Beyonders' construction site.
• Su Ming and Death played unlucky students who were killed by metal cones after confronting the Cartographers.
• Death complained that she had not gotten a line, and Su Ming stopped their role-playing and restored his original face.
• Gin gave Su Ming the Adjutant's filtered list of millions of people who had died miserably at the hands of the Beyonders.
• Su Ming watched a clip of a fat man choking on a burger during the invasion and criticized the burger's meat.

Su Ming returned from the TVA origin point to Doom’s group and prepared to use death records and video files to outwit CCU. He brought Deadpool along to draw the Celestial Breakers’ attention while he carried out the next part of the plan.

• Su Ming interrupted Gin and Death’s conversation, took the face-swapping videos from Adjutant, and returned with Gin to the battlefield.
• Su Ming told Strangle to guard his body while his soul went ahead, and Doom asked whether the others could help with the plan.
• Su Ming said Deadpool and Squirrel Girl could join the fight, then agreed to bring Deadpool along after Deadpool pleaded to help.
• Su Ming used his Teleportation Belt to send himself and Deadpool to the Court of Owls, where Strangle pulled the dagger from Deadpool after the transfer.
• Su Ming explained that he was not possessing Deadpool and instructed him to teleport them onto the head of the Celestial Breakers and draw its attention.

Su Ming and Deadpool blundered through a teleportation jump into the Flintstones universe before reaching the Celestial Destroyer amid its battle with CCU. While Deadpool endured the fight through repeated regeneration, Su Ming used his soul form to approach CCU and began guiding him.

• Deadpool and Su Ming arrived in the Flintstones universe by mistake, where Deadpool considered visiting Bedrock before Su Ming teleported them away.
• The brothers appeared on a Star Trek ship, and Deadpool startled the crew before teleporting them back to the Celestial Destroyer.
• Deadpool was repeatedly destroyed by energy surges from the Celestial Destroyer's fight with CCU, while Su Ming remained unharmed in his soul form.
• Su Ming explained his protection to Deadpool and told him to stand on the Celestial Destroyer's head while he approached CCU.
• Su Ming whispered for CCU to dodge left, but CCU froze and was struck by the Celestial Destroyer.

Deathstroke manipulated CCU during the battle with Celestial Destroyer, questioning his belief that he was unique and infinite while Deadpool distracted him. Deathstroke then projected a memory of a version of CCU drowning in a cesspit, leaving CCU trapped in a logical crisis.

• Deathstroke instructed CCU to dodge Celestial Destroyer's attack, and CCU evaded it and retaliated with a golden beam.
• CCU asked who the voice was, and Deathstroke claimed to be CCU's erased past self from every world.
• Deadpool appeared atop Celestial Destroyer's crown and distracted CCU with a bizarre dance while holding his own head.
• Deathstroke challenged CCU to question whether he had truly transcended every version of himself, prompting him to obsess over the paradox of his past selves.
• Deathstroke entered CCU's mind and projected a scene of a version of CCU drowning in a cesspit, plunging CCU into further logical conflict.

Su Ming entered CCU’s mind and showed him memories of human versions of himself dying during the Beyonders’ invasion, hoping to make him question his identity. CCU instead concluded that he had once been human and killed his other selves as part of the Way of Transcendence.

• Su Ming’s memory projections made CCU wonder whether he was really a Beyonder or another Beyonder manipulating him.
• Deadpool distracted Celestial Destroyer and persuaded him not to attack while CCU stood motionless.
• Su Ming used Ghost form to enter CCU’s blue energy body and play memories of human versions of CCU dying.
• Deathstroke asked CCU whether he now understood that he was one of them.
• CCU decided that he had once been human and had killed the other versions of himself through the Way of Transcendence.

Su Ming used memories of CCU’s deaths to make CCU question his identity and believe he had once been human. As CCU awakened to his emotions and begged for help, the Beyonders fighting the Exterminators suddenly collapsed across the lower Beyond Realm.

• Su Ming played memories showing CCUs in different Timelines dying during the Beyonders’ collision with Earth.
• Su Ming noticed CCU’s energy brightened during happy memories and dimmed during suffering and death.
• CCU suddenly remembered his past and declared himself the real CCU, but Su Ming’s questions made him doubt who he was.
• Su Ming told CCU that he was human and urged him to act to prevent more versions of himself from suffering.
• CCU expelled Beyonder Energy, struggled with his guilt, and begged for help.
• The Beyonders fighting the Exterminators collapsed throughout the lower Beyond Realm.

Su Ming and his allies defeated CCU, who disintegrated after being driven into madness, but the resurrection of the Dark Celestial alerted the Colored Celestials. The group prepared to leave the quarry and face the approaching forces, with Su Ming confirming Little Guy had survived.

• Su Ming offered CCU a hand as he died, but CCU exploded before he could take it.
• Death explained that CCU had no soul, while the group speculated about what had caused his sudden death.
• Su Ming warned that reviving the Dark Celestial had likely alerted the Colored Celestials, who might be approaching through the quarry passage.
• Deadpool and Su Ming prepared to fight the Colored Celestials, with Su Ming planning to take on the strongest enemy.
• Su Ming confirmed that Little Guy had survived CCU's self-destruction after Wanda protected her with Chaos Magic.

After the Beyonders’ deaths, Su Ming returned with his allies to the ruined Beyond Realm and prepared it as their base for the coming battle against the Colorful Celestials. He left the details of his next move unexplained, and the Nuwali warship’s arrival plunged the town into darkness.

• Su Ming and his allies returned to the Beyond Realm, where the Exterminators fed on the fallen Beyonders beneath a starry, sunless sky.
• Wanda confirmed that the Original Beyonder had died, leaving Deathstroke’s small Cosmic Cube as the only Beyonder in the Beyond Realm.
• Su Ming told Doctor Doom that Franklin held the highest authority there and ordered the Adjutant to begin the second phase of plan A.
• Su Ming instructed the Celestial Destroyer to keep the Exterminators from damaging the houses and said he would control the universes within them through time.
• Su Ming and his companions relaxed in the town’s park while Death teased him about the risks ahead.
• A Nuwali warship jumped above the town and blocked the remaining light.

Su Ming settled the Nuwali’s grievance over the Beyonders’ unpaid debt by offering humanity’s payment, then proposed hiring them to manage the Savage Land and a future Cosmic Zoo. The Nuwali representative eagerly considered expanding their trade relationship.

• Su Ming welcomed the arriving Nuwali representative, who lamented that Deathstroke had killed the Beyonders before they could repay their debt.
• Su Ming promised that humanity would cover the debt, and the Nuwali representative named the amount and offered to waive the penalty.
• The Nuwali representative explained how the consortium quantified and sold emotions, while Franklin created a moon-sized golden planet to pay the debt.
• Su Ming offered the excess gold as an advance payment and proposed hiring the Nuwali to provide security and property management for the Savage Land and a future Cosmic Zoo.

Su Ming completed a deal with the Nuwali to help build and maintain two giant zoos, then the Colorful Celestials suddenly attacked the Beyond Realm. He joined the battle alongside Celestial Destroyer and the others, targeting the weakest Celestial as the Final Host remained absent.

• Su Ming traded a golden planet to the Nuwali for a million years of help maintaining the zoos, and Adjutant teleported the planet away after the contract was signed.
• Deadpool complained that Su Ming had never paid him as much, then joked about the Nuwali's deal with the others.
• The Beyond Realm shook, and the Colorful Celestials emerged beneath the town as the defenders prepared for battle.
• The two Celestial factions immediately began fighting, with Celestial Destroyer leading the Exterminators into the fray.
• Su Ming formed a massive Symbiote sword with Strangle and charged toward the weakest Colorful Celestial, following Deadpool's trail.

Franklin and Little Guy moved the town away from the Celestial battlefield while the team tested the enemies’ powers. Squirrel Girl became furious after mistaking a Doom Bot for Doctor Doom and overwhelmed a Celestial with a swarm of squirrels, as Deathstroke continued fighting another.

• Franklin had Little Guy relocate the town to a distant white desert with Little Rich’s help.
• An enemy beam destroyed a robot disguised as Doom, and Doreen cried out as though Doctor Doom had died.
• Doreen rushed ahead in anger, leapt onto a Celestial, tore off part of its faceplate, and summoned squirrels from the Squirrel Dimension.
• The squirrels swarmed over the Celestial and disabled it, apparently destroying its internal circuitry.
• Death praised Squirrel Girl’s strength, and Deathstroke enlarged Strangle to sever the head of the Celestial he had crippled.

Su Ming and his allies fought the Celestials while Doom used Zero Matter to help the Vampire Grand Duke defeat one. Su Ming then helped Deadpool turn a Prime Celestial into Wolverine so his Anti-Healing Metal weapons could harm it.

• Doreen killed Celestials while Doom secretly reappeared and planned to win her over with Latverian nuts.
• Su Ming sent Doom to aid the Vampire Grand Duke, and together they brought down a Colored Celestial.
• Su Ming revived Deadpool from paper form and paid him to fight more Prime Celestials.
• Deadpool's Katana could not cut Celestial Alloy, so Su Ming told him to use the Plot Continuity Gem to change a target's body.
• Deadpool transformed a bright yellow Prime Celestial into Logan and attacked it with Su Ming.