Chapter Summaries

Loki, Thor, Sif, Hera, and Cheetah explored the icy ruins of an old pantheon homeland in God's Kingdom. After Cheetah left, the others followed mysterious humanlike footprints into the snow.

• Cheetah guided Loki and the Asgardians through the ruins and discussed the fallen Bifrost and Yggdrasil.
• Thor spotted bare footprints in the snow, and Cheetah confirmed that someone had passed by about two hours earlier.
• Cheetah refused to investigate further, demanded her payment, and had Brainiac teleport her away.
• Sif wanted to fight Cheetah, but Loki warned that Cheetah was too fast for her.
• Thor dismissed Sif's challenge as pointless and followed Loki along the tracks, leaving Hera to comfort the tearful Sif.

Deathstroke negotiated with the Xibanis family to secure their help against the Eternals, who called themselves Sun Gods and planned to ally with the Prime Celestials. The Xibanis agreed to help for free, while leaving Deathstroke's actions on Earth to him.

• Deathstroke entered the Far Realms and summoned the Xibanis family to negotiate.
• The Xibanis said they did not care whether humans knew of them, so Deathstroke warned that Earth’s Sun Gods planned to dishonor their name and cooperate with the Prime Celestials.
• Deathstroke embellished his account of the Eternals and threatened to seek help from the Xibanis’ rivals, the Mansunil Twenty-Eight Mansions.
• The Xibanis declined to interfere in Earth’s affairs but offered their help after accepting Deathstroke’s terms.
• The Xibanis fused their seven suns into one and confirmed that their assistance would be free.

Deadpool and Zorn Batman hid beneath a Gotham restaurant while discussing Batwoman’s approach to the city and waiting for Doomsday Blues. Zorn Batman left after detecting Hell Magic, and Deadpool concluded that he would not become The Batman Who Laughs.

• Deadpool ate pickles and joked with Zorn Batman in the restaurant’s hidden storeroom.
• Zorn Batman argued that Gotham needed a harsher protector and suggested that Green Arrow could help maintain order.
• Deadpool said Green Arrow lacked Batwoman’s anger, looks, and imposing physique.
• Zorn Batman detected Hell Magic through Brother Eye and said Doomsday Blues was likely heading to the restaurant.
• Deadpool prepared for a fight, but Zorn Batman vanished without saying goodbye.
• Deadpool told the audience that Zorn Batman resembled his Cousin more than The Batman Who Laughs.

After returning from the Dimensional Demon Gods’ meeting, Su Ming arranged for Ian to return the painting to the Secret Vault and contacted Wanda to request her Chaos Magic as extra insurance. Wanda agreed to join him, while Polaris stayed behind to shop in The Boys Universe.

• Cinnibus returned Deathstroke and the others to the moment they had left, and Su Ming said Cinnibus would notify him if they found traces of the black-robed enemies.
• Su Ming thanked Ian for his help and promised to send him a spaceship before leaving the shop.
• Su Ming asked the Adjutant to contact Wanda because he wanted Chaos Magic as an extra safeguard.
• The Adjutant connected Su Ming to Wanda and Polaris, who were shopping amid a crowd of enthusiastic fans in The Boys Universe.
• Polaris agreed to shop without Wanda, and Su Ming said he was bringing Wanda back only as insurance against the coming threat.

Deathstroke brought Wanda and the others to S.P.E.A.R. Agency, where they met Weather Witch and learned that Chinese Mutants were busy responding to unexpected incidents caused by civilians traveling into space. He then headed to Old Zheng’s office to arrange talks with representatives of the Eternals’ cooperation faction.

• Wanda joined Deathstroke’s group and said she liked The Boys Universe, while he warned her to use Chaos Magic carefully.
• The Adjutant teleported the group to S.P.E.A.R. Agency’s aerial fortress.
• Weather Witch greeted Deathstroke, explained that she had stayed behind to handle incidents caused by China’s space-bound civilians, and accepted his space-food gift.
• Weather Witch left on a mission, and Wanda commented that Chinese Mutants received better treatment than Mutants elsewhere.
• Deathstroke told Wanda to leave Utopia’s affairs to Professor Xu and her father, then led the group to meet Old Zheng.

Su Ming asked Zheng Xian to contact cooperative Eternals, and Zheng agreed to arrange a meeting while warning that their loyalties were uncertain. As Zheng made the call, Su Ming and the others discussed the Eternals’ obedience to the Celestials and Fury’s strategy on Earth.

• Su Ming arrived at Sky Ring Base with Wanda, Thanos, Hela, and the others and found Zheng Xian in his smoke-filled office.
• Su Ming asked Zheng Xian to contact Eternals willing to cooperate, and Zheng agreed to arrange representatives without guaranteeing their loyalties.
• Su Ming, Zheng Xian, and Hela discussed how the Eternals’ habits and obedience kept some of them under the Celestials’ control.
• Su Ming speculated that Fury had accepted the Eternals’ benefits but stayed silent because he could not influence Su Ming’s decision.
• Su Ming explained that Fury was likely keeping rival organizations on Earth occupied while Agent Coulson’s team explored space, and Zheng answered the telephone.

Zheng Xian arranged a meeting between Su Ming and the Eternal leader Ikaris, who arrived with Thena at a private roast duck restaurant. The chapter ended as Ikaris faced Su Ming’s pointed reminder that the divided Eternals had waited too long to seek the Sorcerer Supreme’s help.

• Zheng Xian used coded phrases to arrange a meeting with his friend and explained that “Elephant” was a code name for a heavyweight figure.
• Su Ming, Zheng Xian, Carol, and Wanda traveled to the Imperial Capital and went to a private Mutant roast duck restaurant.
• Su Ming and Zheng Xian greeted Ikaris and Thena, who had been waiting in the rear courtyard.
• Su Ming recognized Ikaris as the Eternals’ current leader and noted his age, implying that the Eternals had been slow to approach the Vishanti.
• Ikaris understood the rebuke and recognized that the Eternals’ fate might depend on Su Ming’s decision.

Deathstroke confronted Ikaris and Thena over the Eternals’ history of exploiting humanity and offered their people a new home in exchange for help hunting their traitorous kin. The chapter ended with Deathstroke demanding that the Eternals use the traitors’ deaths to secure their own survival.

• The Eternals’ leader apologized for failing to contact the Sorcerer Supreme earlier, and Deathstroke reminded Ikaris and Thena that Vishanti had spared their people because they were so closely related to humans.
• Deathstroke explained that the Celestials had taken credit for life shaped by the Demiurge, while the Eternals had presented their teachings to humanity as gifts and concealed the faith they gained from worship.
• Ikaris acknowledged that the Eternals had exploited humanity and argued that they needed to repair trust rather than deny their past.
• Deathstroke offered to help the Eternals’ future and find them another Earth if they helped capture the traitors who threatened Earth and humanity.
• Deathstroke told Ikaris that the traitors had to die and that their deaths would buy the Eternals’ lives.

Doomsday Blues, a dying mage from a destroyed world, hid in a Gotham restaurant to drink before continuing his mission against Earth-0. Zorn Batman confronted him, and the two prepared to fight amid the burning restaurant.

• Doomsday Blues entered the dark restaurant, searched for its strongest liquor, and drank nearly two hundred milliliters of vodka.
• Doomsday Blues recalled his destroyed world, his dead Zatanna, and the allies who had pursued him with Red Hood and Harley.
• Zorn Batman appeared behind Doomsday Blues and challenged him, identifying him as Constantine from an unknown world.
• Doomsday Blues hurled a fireball, but Zorn Batman split it with a Batarang, setting the restaurant ablaze.
• Zorn Batman explained that poisoning Batwoman had freed him to fight her and invited Doomsday Blues to attack.

Zorn Batman confronted Doomsday Blues in a burning building and used psychological tactics and an angelic feather to block his escape magic. Doomsday Blues, increasingly shaken, faced Zorn’s invitation to fight again.

• Zorn Batman and Doomsday Blues taunted each other as Doomsday Blues prepared a spell.
• Doomsday Blues tried to escape through a Hell-magic portal, but the spell failed.
• Zorn deduced that Doomsday Blues had planned to teleport away and frightened him by claiming that Deathstroke had eliminated Blank.
• Zorn explained that an angel’s presence could block Hell portals and revealed Gabriel’s feather from his utility belt.
• Doomsday Blues drank to steady himself, spat blood, and asked what Batwoman really was.
• Zorn called himself Batwoman and invited Doomsday Blues to fight him again.

Batwoman incapacitated Doomsday Blues by poisoning the liquor in the restaurant and exploiting the smoke-filled, enclosed space. As he lay suffocating, she revealed how she had overcome his magical defenses and prepared to interrogate him with morphine at hand.

• After drinking liquor, Doomsday Blues recovered enough to prepare a lethal spell and cut his wrists to fuel it.
• Zorn waited as Doomsday Blues began his incantation, but he suddenly coughed up blood and collapsed.
• Zorn told Doomsday Blues that she had poisoned every bottle of liquor with accumulated doses of pilocarpine.
• Zorn explained that the fire and smoke had worsened his breathing and that pilocarpine poisoning could cause pulmonary edema, especially with his lung cancer.
• Zorn produced military-grade morphine and ordered Doomsday Blues to answer her questions by nodding or shaking his head.

Batwoman tortured Doomsday Blues to learn about Blank, then left him alive after challenging his beliefs about reality. Deadpool appeared at her signal and beheaded him.

• Batwoman repeatedly tortured Doomsday Blues, using drugs and a breathing tube to keep him conscious until he answered her questions.
• Doomsday Blues admitted that Batwoman had not found Blank and claimed that all universes were fictional worlds controlled by an invisible force.
• Batwoman rejected his explanation, saying that even his ideas about control might be fabricated, and left the restaurant without killing him.
• Deadpool emerged from hiding and beheaded Doomsday Blues with his swords.

Deadpool delivered Doomsday Blues's head to Deathstroke, then returned to Cousin's gathering after Batwoman paid him with gold. He joined Su Ming, Ikaris, Wanda, and Thanos at the table, where his rotten flesh ended up on Thanos's crotch.

• Deadpool collected Doomsday Blues's head and celebrated in the street until Batwoman appeared and ordered him to take the brain to Deathstroke.
• Batwoman paid Deadpool with a gold bar, and he agreed to deliver the head to Cousin before returning to eat.
• Deadpool found Su Ming drinking with Ikaris, who dry-heaved at the sight and smell of the head.
• Wanda removed Deadpool's stench and covered his face with a mosaic so he could sit at the table.
• Deadpool sat beside Thanos and tried to make him a pancake, but his rotten hand-skin peeled off and landed on Thanos's crotch.

Ikaris agreed to help Deathstroke eliminate rebellious Eternals, while Su Ming learned from Doomsday Blues’s brain that Blank was an unstable, female-shaped being behind “My Lord.” The chapter left Su Ming with only a partial understanding of Blank’s plans and nature.

• Ikaris agreed to guide Deathstroke and Thena in targeting Eternals who had rebelled, despite his distress at turning against his own people.
• Su Ming recognized Doomsday Blues’s severed head, and Wade handed it to him while Thanos force-fed Deadpool a roast duck pancake.
• Su Ming took the head to an isolated place, where Strangle consumed Doomsday Blues’s brain and recovered his memories.
• Strangle’s recovered memories revealed that Blank was “My Lord’s” true leader, had a female outline, and seemed unable to exist naturally in the Material World.
• Su Ming learned that Blank had a grand plan but that Doomsday Blues knew little more, and he cremated the empty skull with Cosmic Energy.

Deathstroke returned to the Roast Duck Courtyard, where Deadpool criticized the Eternals’ isolation and urged Ikaris to see the Sorcerer Supreme’s plans as an opportunity. After Deadpool discussed Zorn Batman, Deathstroke sent him to dinner with Zorn and toasted Zheng Xian as they prepared to coordinate.

• Deathstroke returned to the Roast Duck Courtyard and found Deadpool talking with Ikaris while Thanos ate roast duck.
• Deadpool argued that the Eternals’ isolation from human society would provoke resentment and leave them behind.
• Deadpool suggested that Ikaris and the Eternals should align themselves with Deathstroke instead of settling for integration into human society.
• Deathstroke rejected Deadpool’s attempt to direct the Eternals’ future and asked what he thought of Zorn Batman.
• Deadpool described Zorn Batman as dark but like a completely new character, and Deathstroke sent him to meet Zorn for dinner.
• Deathstroke and Zheng Xian raised their bowls and agreed to coordinate.

Su Ming and his companions traveled to India with Ikaris as their guide, while Su Ming turned the country’s unrest into an opportunity to sell weapons. The group continued toward the secluded home of an Earth-traitor Eternal, leaving Ikaris troubled by Su Ming’s refusal to intervene.

• Su Ming asked Ikaris to lead the group to the Earth traitor closest to the Imperial Capital, and Ikaris chose India as their destination.
• As Cloak carried the group over India, they saw widespread riots after officials fled the country.
• Su Ming ordered Adjutant to sell World War II-era weapons from the company warehouse in India.
• Hela mocked Thanos over his failed snap, and Ikaris questioned Su Ming’s claim that he was not interfering in worldly affairs.
• Su Ming defended the weapon sale as business and urged Ikaris not to intervene as they neared the Eternal’s home.

Deathstroke and the Eternals tracked Druid to a buried temple in the rainforest, but Deathstroke refused to enter its underground palace. Wanda raised the temple into the air and split it open, revealing someone falling from inside.

• Ikaris led Deathstroke and the others to an abandoned temple that the Goddess of the Underworld identified as a tomb.
• Ikaris revealed that the temple belonged to Druid, an Eternal who had turned against humanity and gathered followers who shared his views.
• Ikaris uncovered the entrance to Druid’s underground palace, but Deathstroke refused to crawl inside and told Wanda to bring the structure up instead.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to lift the buried temple into the air and split it in two.
• A figure fell from the opened temple, plummeting from several thousand meters above the ground.

Deathstroke and the Eternals discovered Kro, a frozen Deviant leader, in Druid’s ruined temple, and Wanda thawed him while restoring the temple. Ikaris explained that the Eternals had rejected their order to exterminate Deviants, while Thanos returned to his tyrant’s manner and dismissed them.

• Ikaris told Deathstroke that only 101 Eternals remained because their stable genes made reproduction difficult.
• Deathstroke caught a frozen, armored Deviant falling from Druid’s temple, and Ikaris identified him as Kro, the leader of Lemuria.
• Ikaris asked Deathstroke to save Kro and explained that he had bypassed the Celestials’ directive to eliminate Deviants by choosing not to regard them as such.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to thaw Kro and reassembled the temple before lowering it into the ruined site.
• Hela offered to make Deadman talk if Kro died and suggested that the Eternals speak with Thanos, who rebuffed them and mocked their name.

Thor, Loki, Sif, and Frigga investigated mysterious footprints in the snow, while Lucifer received an unexpected visit at Lux from his brother Amenadiel. The chapter ended with Lucifer and Amenadiel facing each other after recalling that Lucifer had killed him in self-defense.

• Thor found that the footprints stopped abruptly, and Loki wondered why Deathstroke had sent them to investigate.
• Sif suggested that the tracks might lead them to humanoid creatures, and Frigga advised digging beneath the spot where they ended.
• Thor began digging into the snow and ground with his axe.
• Lucifer told Maze that Lux was closing and asked her to prepare drinks for the visitor at the reserved Table Seven.
• Lucifer met Amenadiel, who asked whether Lucifer had thought of him at every midnight.
• Lucifer reminded Amenadiel that he had killed him only after Amenadiel tried to kill him first.

Amenadiel warned Lucifer that wishes were being granted for free, threatening humanity and the Hells, and asked him to help contact Deathstroke. Lucifer agreed to seek a pass from whoever was behind Amenadiel, leaving the larger crisis unresolved.

• Amenadiel asked Lucifer how he had felt after Amenadiel died, and the brothers discussed his rebirth and Heaven.
• Amenadiel told Lucifer that someone was granting wishes without demanding a price and warned that unchecked human desires could endanger the multiverse.
• Lucifer initially dismissed Amenadiel's warning, then realized that free wishes could undermine the Hells by making soul bargains unnecessary.
• Lucifer inferred that Amenadiel wanted him to contact Deathstroke and asked for a pass from the person behind his brother.
• Amenadiel condemned Lucifer and left in a flash of white light, while Lucifer watched the nightclub and questioned whether Amenadiel understood humanity.