Chapter Summaries

Shuri called Peter and revealed that she had reverse-engineered a spaceship, inviting him and his friends on a test flight. Gwen and the other Spider-Girls interrupted and competed with Shuri over Peter, leaving him caught between their invitations.

• Shuri called Peter, who hurried out of school with Ned after she nearly mentioned Deathstroke in front of others.
• Peter introduced Ned to Shuri, and Shuri showed them a spaceship she had built using technology from a Wilson Enterprises vessel.
• Shuri invited Peter and his friends to join her spaceship’s test flight and offered to pick them up.
• Gwen took Peter’s phone and challenged Shuri, while MJ said Peter was going with the Spider-Girls instead.
• Shuri and the girls both pressed Peter to choose, and Ned fled, muttering that girls were terrifying.

Deathstroke watched Peter Parker struggle to handle the girls competing for his attention, then learned Star-Lord’s crew had stranded themselves by breaking down their ship during a staged Great Voyage expedition. He teleported to rescue them and began punishing Star-Lord for the mistake.

• Deathstroke and the Adjutant watched Mary, Cynthia, and the other girls tug Peter Parker around while Peter remained too shy to ask for help getting into space.
• The Adjutant reported that Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy were stranded thousands of light-years from their staged expedition after their Jump Drive lost power.
• Deathstroke arranged for the Adjutant to spread word that Peter wanted to travel to space, hoping Tony would offer him a ride.
• Deathstroke teleported to Star-Lord’s disabled ship and found the Guardians shivering in the dark after further mistakes had drained the ship’s power.
• Star-Lord clung to Deathstroke in relief, and Deathstroke grabbed him by the ears and spun him around as punishment.

Su Ming repaired the Guardians of the Galaxy’s ship with the Time Stone and urged Star-Lord to take his leadership seriously. He then warned the team that their staged expedition would involve real dangers and explained that the food he gave them was for product placement.

• Su Ming reset the ship’s energy reserves with the Time Stone and reminded Star-Lord that his teammates depended on him.
• Rocket, Groot, Nebula, Gamora, and Drax mocked Star-Lord’s promise to protect the team and argued about who should lead or fight on the front line.
• Su Ming told the Guardians to proceed with their plan and warned them that the ruins’ traps and bioengineered monsters were real.
• Star-Lord protested that the contract had not mentioned tentacle monsters, and Su Ming said Kaecilius had developed the creatures.
• Su Ming gave Star-Lord a large package of Instant Hot Pot and Da Li Soda, explaining that the team needed to show the Wilson logo to their cameras for product placement.
• Su Ming called for teleportation and left the Guardians to begin the operation.

Deathstroke visited the newly completed S.W.O.R.D. space station, where Wilson Enterprises’ stores and facilities supported travelers heading into space. Agent Abigail Brand met with him, and he promised Wilson Enterprises would treat her genetic illness before asking where Carol Danvers was.

• Deathstroke toured the space station disguised as an ordinary traveler and saw that its visitors were satisfied with the Wilson Enterprises facilities.
• Deathstroke relaxed in the central garden, where birds gathered around him as he fed them peanuts.
• Agent Abigail Brand approached Deathstroke and said she supported his ideals.
• Deathstroke welcomed Brand into his organization and promised Wilson Enterprises would cure the memory deterioration caused by her genetic defect.
• Deathstroke told Brand to return to her duties and asked where Carol Danvers was.

Su Ming visited Carol on S.W.O.R.D.'s space station and learned that Leviathan wanted a role in the Cosmic Voyage. An explosion then broke out at the District Ten power station, and Carol and Su Ming rushed to contain the fire and investigate a possible saboteur.

• Su Ming entered Carol's quarters, fed the Orange Cat, and woke Carol while checking on the progress of his plans.
• Carol told Su Ming that Leviathan had contacted her about joining the Cosmic Voyage, but the starship sales system had rejected them because their background was unclear.
• An explosion at the District Ten power station triggered alarms and started a spreading fire.
• Carol ordered Districts Nine and Eleven sealed and personnel evacuated, while Su Ming instructed Brand to cut off transit equipment and seal the elevators and ventilation ducts.
• Carol and Su Ming headed to the accident site as Brand kept the special operations team at the command center.

Su Ming and Carol responded to an explosion near District Ten, evacuated the crowd, and assessed the threat to the space station. Carol revealed that Mary had kicked her out, and the two reached the burning district with Su Ming preparing to enter first.

• Carol directed the evacuation and perimeter setup at the quarantine gate while Su Ming examined the blast door.
• Carol told Su Ming that the automated factories in District Ten likely had no casualties, but further explosions near the station’s rotational axis could threaten the station.
• Carol explained that Mary had kicked her out after complaining about her unmarried lifestyle and lack of training, and blamed Little Joe’s idol career for shifting Mary’s hopes to Carol’s future children.
• Su Ming suggested that Mary could train recruits at an interstellar colony, but Carol showed little interest in the idea.
• Su Ming and Carol reached District Ten’s gate, where Strangle sensed intense heat behind the door, and Su Ming told Carol to step back before he entered.

Su Ming and Carol investigated a deliberately started fire in District Ten and considered which alien powers might be responsible. After the Nuwali reported that billions of civilizations opposed humanity entering space, Su Ming dismissed the broad lead and found the blast point.

• Carol confirmed that the gravity system and hydraulic override had failed, so Su Ming cut through the Adamantium-reinforced blast door with his Lightsaber.
• Su Ming and Carol entered District Ten, where Carol concluded the rapidly spreading fire had been deliberately set.
• Su Ming found a new high-density carbon-based compound feeding the flames as he and Carol considered the Skrulls and Ronan's Kree as suspects.
• Carol suggested alien races might be trying to prevent humanity from entering space, and Su Ming asked the Adjutant to contact the Nuwali for intelligence.
• The Adjutant reported that more than forty billion alien civilizations hated humans and wanted to block their expansion into space, but Su Ming stopped the inquiry and found the blast point.

Deathstroke and Carol investigated a weak Cosmic Energy explosion on the S.W.O.R.D. station and suspected it was a suicide attack meant to distract them from a theft. They found Carol’s Flerken safe, but she remained convinced something else might be missing as they waited for Brand’s inventory.

• Deathstroke and Carol examined the crater and identified unusual Cosmic Energy radiation from a bomb whose human attacker appeared to have died in the blast.
• Deathstroke questioned how an ordinary person could have built the bomb so quickly, while Carol ordered Brand to scan the station for a missing spacecraft owner.
• Deathstroke asked Brand to inventory station cargo and considered whether the explosion had distracted them while the Black Hand stole something.
• Deathstroke and Carol returned to Carol’s quarters and found Chewie safe, licking Jewel beneath the table.
• Carol suspected the attack had been a diversion and waited for Brand’s inventory results.

Carol investigated the attempted bombing on the S.W.O.R.D. space station but found no missing ships or unexplained arrivals. Deathstroke suggested the attacker might have been among the station’s long-term workers, while he ruled out Kang the Conqueror and considered other explanations.

• Agent Brand reported to Carol that every docked ship had an owner, arrivals matched departures, and the station’s staff were accounted for.
• Carol reasoned that the suicide bombing was a diversion intended to steal something without destroying the station, then asked Deathstroke for help.
• Deathstroke agreed with Carol’s logic and suggested the attacker might have entered in a cargo crate or already been on the station.
• Deathstroke proposed that the attacker could have been one of the workers who built the station over the previous seven or eight years.
• Deathstroke considered whether Kang the Conqueror was behind the attack, ruled him out, and concluded that several other explanations remained.

Su Ming ruled out several explanations for the bombing and called Hela to investigate the possibility he favored. Hela stayed on Earth, racing in a video game, while Su Ming and Carol returned to the explosion site.

• Su Ming dismissed the ideas that Little Black was a transmigrator or that Agamotto had hidden the Timeline, and considered other possible causes of the bombing.
• Su Ming asked the Adjutant to return him and Carol to the explosion site and contact Hela.
• Su Ming and Carol returned to the crater with the Flerken, while Synthezoids continued cleaning up the fire and casualties.
• Hela answered the call from Daisy's home and kept playing Mario Kart while Su Ming said he needed her help investigating.
• Hela explained that Daisy was out on patrol and Gwenpool was still unconscious after drinking, and Su Ming joked that Gwenpool had exceeded expectations while entertaining his friends.

Su Ming and Hela investigated an unfamiliar trace of Cosmic Energy in a crater, where Hela sensed the presence of a concept of death that had died in the past. In Gotham, Red Hood’s team lost Doomsday Blues, but Deadpool distracted everyone with watermelon and a musical performance.

• Su Ming brought Hela to the crater, where she sensed an energy connected to the dead concept of death.
• Hela lay down to examine the lingering sensation, leaving Carol and Deathstroke confused by her explanation.
• Red Hood blamed Deadpool for letting Doomsday Blues escape, while Deadpool defended himself and offered the team watermelon.
• Harley told Red Hood that she had killed Joker once to avenge him, and Red Hood said only Batwoman could handle Joker.
• Harley revealed that Yellow Peri might have magically transformed the watermelon from an alien demon, and Red Hood joined the others in eating it.
• Deadpool announced that the group was called the Street Killers and led them in performing their debut song, “I'll Kill You Like That.”

Deathstroke waited while Hela sensed something in her sleep, and he reassured Carol that she could help against the Mystic threat by training and acquiring a powerful weapon. Hela woke with a scorched piece of skin in her hand and prepared to explain what she had discovered.

• Carol worried that she would be unable to help in the coming operation, and Deathstroke told her magic was another way to use Cosmic Energy and praised her strength in Binary Form.
• Deathstroke advised Carol to arm herself with a weapon suited to Multiversal Level battles rather than relying on her fists.
• Deathstroke offered Carol rare materials, including branches from Yggdrasil, Set's venomous fangs, and fragments of Chthon's Cloak, to help forge a weapon.
• Hela abruptly woke from her sleep, gasping and drenched in sweat, as Deathstroke supported her and asked what she had found.
• Hela moved away from the Blast Point with a scorched piece of skin in her hand and said she needed to think about how to explain her discovery.

Hela told Su Ming that a dying concept of Death from the First Firmament had reached her across time and left a piece of hide in her hand. Her account raised the possibility that an earlier Death had existed and died when the First Firmament fell.

• Hela gave Su Ming a piece of black hide that had appeared in her hand after she sensed a call from the past.
• Hela explained that a dying concept of Death had used residual energy at the site to cross time and space and communicate with her.
• Hela recounted how the First Firmament fell, the next Firmament formed, and the cosmic concepts of Infinity, Eternity, and Oblivion emerged over later cycles.
• Su Ming questioned how the First Firmament could have been killed if Death had not existed in its era.
• Su Ming proposed that an earlier Death had been born and died in the instant the First Firmament was destroyed, before being replaced by the Death known now.

Peter escaped the girls pursuing him when Tony Stark rescued him in an unmanned flying car and offered to show him the Avengers' spaceship. Peter refused Tony's offer of an expensive ship because he wanted to uphold his principles, and Tony took him to a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base instead.

• Peter fled the girls who had cornered him at school, and Tony Stark rescued him in a flying car.
• Tony told Peter the Avengers were preparing to go into space and invited him to join them.
• Peter worried that traveling with the older Avengers would be unpleasant and refused to accept Tony's offer of a spaceship.
• Peter explained that Uncle Ben had taught him to earn wealth through his own work, so he would not accept such an expensive gift.
• Tony agreed to give Peter a tour without discussing the spaceship, and the car descended toward a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base amid wheat fields.

Deathstroke, Hela, and Carol investigated the failed suicide attack and learned that Little Black was an undead corpse hidden from the Timeline by a special influence. Hela detected several more human corpses pinned down in a dark area near the sightseeing elevators and Inner Circle restaurant, giving the group a new lead.

• Deathstroke returned the strange black skin to Hela after Strangle found it inedible and unresponsive in his hands.
• Hela confirmed that Little Black was an undead corpse and suggested that a dead Death had concealed it from the Timeline.
• Deathstroke asked Hela to search the station for human corpses in case the enemy had prepared a backup attacker.
• Hela cast a spell that located several corpses about ten kilometers away in a lightless area near the sightseeing elevators and Inner Circle restaurant.
• Carol identified the location, and Hela said she could sense the corpses but could not make them move because something was pinning them down.

Su Ming, Hela, and Carol searched a maintenance shaft aboard Carol’s space station for a hidden corpse. They found its hiding place at the bottom of the shaft and prepared to bring it out for Hela to inspect.

• Hela sensed the corpse behind a hatch leading to the station’s ventilation maintenance passages, and Carol opened it.
• Deathstroke led the group down through the station’s massive maintenance shaft while Su Ming searched for traces.
• Hela asked why Su Ming had gathered Daisy and friends around her, and he joked that Daisy might become a Rune King.
• Hela and Su Ming discussed Yggdrasil’s return to Earth as they reached the shaft’s cluttered bottom.
• Su Ming identified a drainage channel as the likely hiding place and ordered Strangle to retrieve the corpse for Hela.

Loki lied to Frigga and Sif that Thor had left Asgard to live with Jane Foster, then offered to help Sif get revenge while secretly plotting further deception. As the spaceship continued its journey, Loki and Frigga planned to build a farm on another planet, and Loki cheered up the others.

• Loki told Frigga that Thor had chosen to travel with Jane Foster rather than join them, and Sif wept after hearing that her fiancé had found another woman.
• Frigga blamed Thor for disregarding Sif's feelings and worried that a mortal wife would die long before him.
• Loki offered to lure Thor away so Sif could kill Jane, but Sif refused and decided to ask Thor about the woman herself.
• Loki secretly considered disguising herself as Thor and creating an illusory Jane to make her story seem true.
• Loki told Frigga that they would find a planet and build a farm, then joked about remaining a woman; Frigga and Sif laughed as the ship jumped onward.

Su Ming and his companions found three human corpses in a lightwell and learned they had died from sudden decompression. Hela revived one as a skeleton, whose identity linked him to a wealthy Wilson Enterprises customer, while Deathstroke promised to avenge him.

• Strangle pulled three decomposed male corpses from a floor drain, and Su Ming and Carol concluded they had died from sudden decompression.
• Carol photographed the bodies and contacted Agent Brand to identify them and investigate their deaths.
• Hela raised one corpse as a Skeleton Soldier, and Su Ming questioned him through written answers.
• The skeleton identified himself as Ahmed Jafar, and Adjutant matched him to a wealthy customer who had bought a ten-billion-dollar Wilson Enterprises spacecraft.
• Deathstroke recognized Ahmed Jafar as a diamond-tier customer, promised to avenge him, and joked about arranging his afterlife.

Deathstroke questioned Oil Prince’s soul about his murder, but the Prince could only describe two black-robed attackers who had appeared suddenly and whose faces were impossible to identify. With that lead exhausted, Deathstroke took Carol to inspect the Prince’s ship in the Kepler Sector while the investigation into the stolen items continued.

• Hela held Oil Prince’s soul in place while Deathstroke promised to protect his yacht from the Prince’s brothers and give it to Black Widow.
• Oil Prince drew the events before his death, showing himself and his bodyguards aboard a spaceship before two black-robed figures suddenly appeared and teleported them outside.
• The Prince drew the attackers’ faces as an indistinct mass of black lines, leaving Deathstroke and Hela unable to identify them.
• Deathstroke rejected First Firmament as a suspect and decided to investigate the Prince’s ship at Kepler Sector 314B.
• Carol joined Deathstroke, leaving Brand to handle the bodies and continuing the search for the stolen items.

Deathstroke used the Time Stone to replay the attack on the prince’s ship and identified the attackers’ weapon as a Death Seed, giving him a lead to investigate. Back aboard Tony’s ship, the Avengers realized Thor was missing and suspected he was drinking in Tony’s wine cellar.

• Deathstroke explained why he had investigated the S.W.O.R.D. station before teleporting to the crime scene with Hela and Carol.
• Deathstroke used the Time Stone to view the attackers killing the prince and guards, reviving one corpse with a strange purple-black tool, and leaving with a bomb-like object.
• Hela identified the attackers’ magic as dark Space Magic, and Deathstroke recognized their tool as a rare Death Seed.
• Peter asked Tony why the Avengers kept patting his head and wondered where Thor was.
• Tony, Wasp, and Dr. Banner suspected Thor was drinking in the wine cellar beneath Avengers Mansion, so Tony ordered Jarvis to send someone to protect his wine.