Chapter Summaries

Gamora searched the endless darkness for her missing Guardians while a Nebula-like creature stalked her. Loki, Frigga, and Sif stopped after noticing they were being followed, just as Thor attacked Loki from behind.

• Gamora realized she had been separated from the Guardians and heard their voices insult her, but she continued searching because she trusted them.
• Gamora heard Star-Lord scream and tried unsuccessfully to find him, while a creature resembling Nebula crept up behind her with a sword.
• Loki cast protective spells as he led Frigga and Sif through the cave, then decided they should wait for whoever was following them.
• Loki revealed he had left fifteen magical formations to monitor their rear and hinted that the followers might be friends or foes.
• Thor hurled a lightning-crackling axe at Loki from behind and roared his name.

Thor confronted Loki over a stolen prize, but his axe passed through her illusion, and Frigga scolded him for attacking his sibling. After Thor helped Frigga rest, Steve and Bucky stopped Loki and questioned her about following the Guardians of the Galaxy and the planets involved.

• Thor hurled War Axe at Loki, but it passed through her illusion, and Loki accused him of trying to kill her.
• Frigga reprimanded Thor and struck him with her sword, while Loki continued to provoke him.
• Tony scanned Frigga and found nothing wrong, while Steve said she needed rest to reassure Thor.
• Thor made a seat in the cave wall, and Sif helped Frigga over to it as Loki enjoyed the chaos.
• Steve and Bucky blocked Loki from leaving, and Steve asked why she had followed the Guardians of the Galaxy and what was happening to the planets.

Deathstroke explained that the tunnel concealed several Material Dimensions created by the energy of three colliding planets, likely through the Death Seed’s ancient power. As Loki and Thor approached the danger below, he prepared to intervene rather than abandon the Earth-born group.

• Hela confirmed that several dimensional entrances were hidden ahead, and Su Ming explained how energy exchange could be used to create dimensions.
• Su Ming used the Time Stone to freeze burning gunpowder into a solid shape while discussing how few beings could create life-sustaining Material Dimensions.
• Deathstroke suggested the Death Seed might have granted the enemy its dimensional construction ability, then spotted Spider-Man and Jewel hiding nearby.
• Carol worried that the group below might be lured into unknown dimensions, while Hela suspected Loki would try to trick Thor into entering one.
• Thanos argued that the weaker members were expendable, and Su Ming defended the value of companionship before taking out an in-ear earbud.

Jessica weighed whether to flee after the Guardians of the Galaxy mysteriously vanished, but Deathstroke contacted her and offered to guide her in exchange for helping everyone and building her reputation. She emerged from hiding and claimed she knew how to save the Guardians, leaving the group poised to follow her lead.

• Jessica identified the Guardians' disappearance as a possible Kamikakushi and considered leaving the cave with Spider-Man and Squirrel Girl.
• Spider-Man argued that saving the Guardians could pay off because they knew space and possessed universal currency, prompting Jessica to reconsider.
• Deathstroke contacted Jessica through an earpiece and offered remote guidance, a chance to earn the heroes' respect, and rare rewards if she followed his plan.
• Jessica accepted Deathstroke's deal, and Spider-Man's excited reaction revealed their hiding place to the others.
• Jessica stepped out with Squirrel Girl and told everyone that they had to listen to her if they wanted to save the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Jessica explained her theory that the Guardians of the Galaxy had been trapped in another dimension and persuaded the group that the enemy had diverted energy to create it. She began outlining a plan to rescue the Guardians and defeat those responsible.

• Coulson's agents welcomed Jessica, while Iron Man urged Peter and the two girls to leave because the situation was dangerous.
• Jessica said she knew what had happened to the Guardians and offered to explain her assessment, while secretly relaying Deathstroke's findings through her earpiece.
• Jessica explained that the collision of three stars had released less Gamma Ray energy than expected, suggesting that energy had been diverted to create a dimension.
• Dr. Banner, Ant-Man, Wasp, Skye, and others accepted Jessica's theory, while Loki silently recognized that Deathstroke was helping her.
• Jessica drew on the ground with her dagger and began presenting a plan to rescue the Guardians and wipe out the enemy.

Jessica organized the group to evacuate together and follow Deathstroke’s instructions by mixing their blood into liquor in Captain America’s shield, creating a supposed blood oath. The group mostly went along with it, while Loki reinforced the ritual’s explanation and concealed her doubts about what it meant.

• Jessica ordered everyone to stay together, alert the guards and S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel to evacuate, and travel back to Earth on foot.
• Jessica poured liquor into Captain America’s shield and asked everyone to add some blood before drinking it.
• Bucky and Steve each added blood, and Jessica exempted Dr. Banner because of Hulk’s dangerous blood.
• Squirrel Girl, Peter, Tony, the Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, and the Survivors of Asgard added their blood to the shield.
• Loki described the blood oath as an Asgardian way for warriors to become brothers, while privately recognizing that Jessica was following Deathstroke’s instructions.

Jessica led a blood-oath ritual to mark the participants, but Thor misunderstood the instructions and drank the entire shieldful of liquor. Deathstroke revealed that the blood was unnecessary because metal ions from Steve’s shield could mark everyone, and Jessica’s ritual helped secure the group’s trust.

• Loki urged Thor to drink first, and Thor downed the entire shieldful of blood-mixed whiskey before realizing everyone was meant to take only a sip.
• Jessica reclaimed the shield and told the group to donate a few more drops of blood and drink only a small amount, while Tony objected to the cheap liquor and fetched his own alcohol.
• Carol asked Deathstroke whether the group had to drink blood, and he explained that the ritual did not actually require it.
• Deathstroke said metal ions from Steve’s shield could mark the participants and let him locate them through metallic resonance.
• Deathstroke explained that Jessica used the mysterious ritual to make the group trust her leadership and avoid questioning the operation’s scientific basis.

The team finished preparing to search the cave for the missing Kamikakushi Guardians of the Galaxy, while Deathstroke distributed Tenth Metal discs as a precaution. Jessica put Captain America in charge of leading the group, and Steve and Bucky entered the dark tunnel first.

• Deathstroke explained that the Tenth Metal discs would let him sense the team if they became separated, and Thanos attached his disc to the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Deathstroke warned the group to kill any black-robed figure they encountered after getting separated, without giving them a chance to cast a spell.
• Tony returned the blood-wine shield to Captain America, and the gathered team finished preparing for battle.
• Jessica asked Captain America to lead the way with Sergeant Barnes and Sergeant Bucky clearing the path.
• Steve raised his shield, called, "Avengers, assemble!" and entered the darker tunnel with Bucky.

Su Ming and the others entered one of the enemy’s dimensions to find Jessica Jones, discovering a polluted city inhabited by humanoids and tentacle creatures. Su Ming used metal resonance to identify a direction, while Thanos remained unable to sense the Goddess of Death.

• Su Ming watched the team get swallowed by separate dimensional entrances and led the remaining group after Jessica Jones.
• The group entered a city-like dimension, where Hela spotted tentacle creatures beneath the river and Su Ming said he sensed no Old Ones.
• Thanos realized he could no longer sense the Goddess of Death, and Su Ming told him they would search the dimensions methodically.
• Su Ming tapped a Vibranium ingot with Strangle and used metal resonance to guide the flying carpet in a direction.
• Su Ming sensed Diana in the MonsterVerse angrily pounding on a wall.

Jessica encountered a horrific society beneath a bridge in the warped dimension and struggled with whether to kill its monstrous inhabitants. After deciding they were not her real targets, she stole a horse-drawn wagon and headed upstream to find Agent Coulson.

• Jessica found beggars eating a deformed two-headed, four-legged creature and recoiled at the grotesque scene.
• Deathstroke told Jessica to treat the creatures as beasts or ignore them, and she chose not to kill them, reasoning that they might be meaningless Dolls in the dimension.
• Deathstroke argued that the madman who created the dimension was the true enemy, and Jessica agreed that she could kill what was not human.
• Deathstroke instructed Jessica to find transport and pick up Agent Coulson, who was near the river upstream.
• After failing to hitch a ride, Jessica kicked the driver off a hay wagon, took the reins, and rode upstream toward Coulson.

Jessica drove a horse cart while chatting with Su Ming, Carol, and Thanos about the possible targets behind the recent abductions. The group decided to focus on rescuing the Goddess of Death first, then Jessica stopped near Coulson and spotted him on a rooftop.

• Jessica drove the cart and discussed superhero gossip with Carol and Su Ming, including the Guardians of the Galaxy's arrival and the abductions.
• Jessica inferred that the Guardians might have been lured here because someone was targeting one of their members.
• Thanos concluded that the black-robed figures were targeting him by abducting the Goddess of Death and pursuing Gamora and Nebula.
• Su Ming set aside the question of the enemy's motive and said they should rescue the Goddess of Death first.
• Su Ming asked Jessica to slow down and locate Coulson, and she stopped the exhausted horse and spotted Coulson's bald head glinting on a rooftop.

Jessica Jones and Agent Coulson explored their strange new dimension, where they found a nest of living, eyeball-like eggs and discussed how to reunite with their teammates and escape. They continued by carriage, with Coulson again trying to recruit Jessica to S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Jessica flew up to the rooftop and joined Coulson, who showed her a nest filled with living eggs that looked like eyeballs.
• Coulson explained that he had found the nest while searching from high ground and worried that the eggs signaled something dangerous.
• Jessica and Coulson agreed to find their separated teammates, locate the Guardians of the Galaxy, and then escape the dimension.
• Jessica fed the exhausted horse candy, then drove the carriage with Coulson beside her.
• Coulson offered Jessica a Level Four position at S.H.I.E.L.D., but she questioned its prospects and benefits as they traveled.

Deadpool's team continued searching Gotham for Doomsday Blues but grew tired and frustrated after another false lead. Meanwhile, Coulson, Jessica, and Dr. Banner traveled through a distorted late-nineteenth-century Nottingham and discussed finding their missing allies.

• Red Hood returned to the group without finding Doomsday Blues and asked whether they could contact Deathstroke or change the Lazarus Contract.
• Deadpool said Deathstroke was busy hunting targets in their home dimension and claimed the first dimension's keyword was "eyes."
• Harley and Shakara ignored Red Hood's frustration while Deadpool joked about the eyeballs.
• Jessica found Dr. Banner trying to ask deformed locals for a police station and had Coulson lead him away.
• Coulson explained that they were in a distorted version of late-nineteenth-century Nottingham, and Jessica argued that the group should rely on itself rather than the police.
• Coulson asked Jessica how many allies they still needed to meet.

Su Ming and his companions discussed the living eyeballs replacing eggs in the dimension, and Hela suggested they might be offerings for an ancient god. They learned Lady Sif was nearby, then spotted her fighting something fiercely.

• Su Ming explained that the dimension's food and nests contained living eyeballs, which seemed to have replaced eggs.
• Thanos said he had no thoughts on the eyeballs, while Hela suggested they might be a feeding bowl prepared for an ancient god.
• Su Ming asked who else had been separated from the group, and Captain Marvel said Lady Sif was farther upstream near the hillside villa district.
• Hela described Sif's strained past with Misty, and Su Ming warned Jessica not to bring up Thor around her.
• Su Ming's group spotted Lady Sif fighting something in a fierce battle.

Sif struggled to defeat a strange river creature until Jessica joined the fight and killed it. Jessica and Sif then returned to the carriage to continue through enemy territory.

• Su Ming and Hela watched Sif fight a crab-clawed, tentacled creature and criticized her combat experience.
• Deathstroke ordered Jessica to help Sif, and Jessica flew to the riverside battlefield with Coulson’s pistol.
• Jessica’s bullets failed to harm the creature, so she smashed its head with the pistol and stomped it until it died.
• Sif explained that the creature had jumped out of the river and that she had thought it might be possible to communicate with it.
• Jessica warned Sif that they were in enemy territory and led her back toward the carriage.

Su Ming’s group stayed hidden while discussing the enemy’s plans and how to locate the Guardians of the Galaxy. Su Ming sensed Star-Lord nearby in a dark room but chose to wait for a better moment to act.

• Carol realized that the eyeballs in the dimension were likely the enemy’s cameras, and Su Ming praised her insight.
• Hela asked whether any of the Guardians were in the same dimension, and Su Ming said his Dark Perception had found a target.
• Su Ming explained that the target was a transformed female version of Star-Lord, whose rapid heartbeat suggested she was either in danger or doing something inappropriate.
• Su Ming decided they should remain hidden and wait, saying the creature with Star-Lord did not intend to hurt her yet.
• Carol relaxed when she learned Star-Lord was safe for now, confident that his foolish dancing could distract the enemy.

Star-Lord awoke in a mansion as a weak, beautiful girl and found himself trapped with a butler and monstrous maids trying to make him eat an eyeball. He mistook the terrifying situation for a staged mockumentary and prepared to resist until his teammates rescued him.

• Star-Lord remembered that he had been exploring a cave with his companions before waking in the mansion in a girl's body.
• He refused the butler's order to eat an eyeball and searched the room for his Element Pistol.
• The butler lowered iron bars over the windows and summoned the maids to feed Star-Lord.
• Star-Lord recoiled from the eyeball-covered maids, then convinced himself they were bionic actors in Deathstroke's mockumentary.
• Star-Lord armed himself with a comb and decided to fight the maids rather than eat the eyeball.

Star-Lord fought the Eyeball Maids in the young lady’s bedroom while the butler transformed into a monstrous woman whose expanding eyeball threatened to crush him. He called for help just as a figure burst through the iron railing.

• Star-Lord dodged the Eyeball Maids and stabbed their eyeballs with a wooden comb.
• The white-haired butler transformed into a woman in a blood-red gown and demanded that Star-Lord eat his eggs.
• The woman’s giant eyeball expanded, splitting her skull and filling the bedroom with pink tentacles.
• Star-Lord screamed for Drax and Groot as the expanding eyeball and maids closed in.
• An unknown figure flew through the iron railing in a sideways kick.

Jessica stormed into the estate and, guided by Deathstroke, fought the Eyeball Maids while Star-Lord cheered from the sidelines. Sif joined the battle, leaving only the enormous eyeball monster standing.

• Jessica drove the carriage into the estate and flew to the third-floor terrace, where she kicked down the railing and struck the giant eyeball.
• Deathstroke guided Jessica as she fought the Eyeball Maids, while Star-Lord retreated to the balcony and loudly cheered her on.
• Jessica cursed at Star-Lord for acting provocatively in a little girl's body and told him to go down to the garden.
• Star-Lord stayed behind to search for his missing Element Pistol, and Sif arrived and joined Jessica in the fight.
• Jessica and Sif defeated the Eyeball Maids, leaving only the truck-sized giant eyeball in the room.

Jessica and Sif attacked Eye Madam after Deathstroke distracted it with a strange answer about eggs. Jessica destroyed the giant eyeball with a spatial-turbulence device, leaving the group’s next move unresolved.

• Jessica answered Eye Madam’s question by saying they would not eat eggs unless their brother had laid them, as Deathstroke instructed.
• Deathstroke reasoned that Eye Madam was the source of the smaller eyeballs and told Jessica and Sif to kill it rather than follow the river monsters.
• Sif charged Eye Madam and stabbed it, releasing a mass of smaller eyeballs from its wound.
• Jessica drove her earpiece into Eye Madam and retreated as the device activated.
• Spatial Turbulence tore Eye Madam apart and pulled its remains into a tiny singularity.