Chapter Summaries

Su Ming considered the fractured factions of the Eternals while Ikaris tried to wake his friend Kro. When Ikaris and Wanda failed to revive Kro, Su Ming used tentacles to generate heat through friction, leaving Kro still wrapped in sparks.

• Ikaris cradled Kro and called for him to wake, but Kro showed no sign of recovery.
• Su Ming recalled that the Eternals had split into thirteen factions and considered how few followers Ikaris could command.
• Ikaris asked the Sorcerer Supreme for help when he could not find a way to save Kro.
• Wanda hesitated to use Chaos Magic, admitting she had little experience saving anyone.
• Su Ming wrapped Kro in thousands of tentacles and began heating his body through friction.

Deathstroke tried several methods to wake Kro, a hibernating Deviant, before a song from a small speaker jolted him awake. Kro apologized for destroying it and described the song as feeling like a horned demon gnawing at his soul.

• Strangle warmed Kro until his body grew hot, but he remained asleep, and Thanos explained that Kro might be hibernating.
• Thanos insulted the Eternals and dismissed Kro as a bug, while Ikaris defended their kinship and stopped Thena from attacking.
• Deathstroke played a song called “Offerings of Love” beside Kro’s ear as part of Awakening Plan F.
• Kro jolted awake, crushed the speaker, and knelt to apologize when Hela warned him he had broken the Sorcerer Supreme’s property.
• Deathstroke lifted Kro with The Force, reassured him, and asked what the song had felt like; Kro said it was like a horned demon gnawing at his soul.

Loki found a strange hair while Thor tracked their quarry, then watched Thor transform into a blonde woman while tasting it. The transformation shocked Frigga and Sif, while Loki saw a possible way to disrupt Thor and Sif’s relationship.

• Loki spotted a thick black hair embedded in the snow and brought it to Frigga and Thor.
• Thor tasted the hair to identify its source, while Loki complained about his lack of hygiene and schemed to separate Thor and Sif.
• Thor suddenly transformed into a blonde woman, leaving Frigga and Sif shocked.

Thor unexpectedly transformed into a woman while the group investigated a frozen, ruined Asgard, and Loki’s attempts to reverse the change failed. The sisters uncovered a coffin beneath the snow and prepared to investigate it.

• Thor discovered that she had become a woman, and Sif suspected Loki had caused the transformation.
• Frigga examined the black hair Thor had found and determined that it showed no signs of magic or a curse.
• Loki tried to change Thor back, first without the hair and then with it in Thor’s mouth, but neither attempt worked.
• Thor concluded that the mysterious person whose footprint they were tracking might have caused her transformation.
• Thor showed Loki a coffin buried beneath the snow, and Loki told her to dig it out so they could open it.

Batwoman and Deadpool investigated a homeless veteran who inexplicably had a million dollars in cash and discovered that hundreds of thousands of Powerball tickets had matched the winning numbers. They turned toward dinner while Batwoman planned to investigate who had sold the tickets.

• Deadpool pointed out a homeless man dancing with a million dollars, and Batwoman identified him as Jacob Benjamin, a veteran with no means to acquire such wealth.
• Deadpool speculated that a Fairy Godmother had granted Jacob's wish, prompting Batwoman to consider whether someone nearby could grant wishes.
• Deadpool and Batwoman each wished for food, but neither received anything.
• Batwoman asked Alfred to check the Powerball results, and he reported that eight hundred thousand tickets had matched the jackpot numbers.
• Batwoman ended the call, turned the Batmobile around, and suggested that she and Deadpool eat local Gotham cuisine before investigating the ticket seller.

Druid presented evidence that humanity was harming Earth and urged the Eternals to reduce its population, then used footage of Ikaris with a Deviant to turn the council against him. The Eternals voted to strip Ikaris of his positions and imprison him, leaving Druid poised to take control as Eternal Supreme.

• Druid showed the Eternals documentaries of human destruction and argued that humanity’s population should be reduced to one hundred.
• An Eternal questioned Druid’s authority to chair the meeting without Ikaris, Thena, or Circe present.
• Druid projected footage of Ikaris socializing with a Deviant, prompting the Eternals to accuse Ikaris of betrayal.
• Druid called for a vote, and more than half of the Eternals agreed to remove Ikaris from leadership.
• Druid declared that Ikaris would be hunted and imprisoned in the Exile Zone, then announced his plan to succeed him as Eternal Supreme.

After Druid had Ikaris stripped of his leadership and declared wanted, Su Ming’s group set out to reach the Eternals’ Council Hall. Ikaris opened the Celestial gateway in an Arctic glacier, revealing the hall where the Eternals gathered for the Uni-Mind.

• Thena explained that Ikaris had been removed from leadership and was wanted because he had associated with Kro.
• Kro revealed that Druid had captured him but left in a hurry, and the group suspected Druid was connected to the black-robed thieves.
• Su Ming asked Ikaris about the Uni-Mind and learned that the Eternals gathered in a Council Hall in a special dimension.
• Ikaris guided Su Ming’s group from India to the Arctic and found the Celestial device hidden inside a glacier.
• Ikaris activated the device, opening a portal to the circular Council Hall.

Su Ming investigated the meeting room while Ikaris argued with the Eternals who accused him of treason and threatened the Deviants. Wanda tried to create a magical tracking device to find the Druid, while the group discussed Salem Convent and Hela’s new sense of family.

• Ikaris tried to explain himself to the Eternals, but one projection threatened to seize him and destroy the Deviants, prompting Thanos to challenge him.
• Su Ming used the Time Stone to investigate the room but could not identify the Druid in the overlapping visions.
• Su Ming asked Wanda to use Chaos Magic to create a tracking tool after she admitted she did not know Person-Finding Magic.
• Wanda told Su Ming that Agatha had gone to Salem Convent to stay with Master Sara, and Hela explained that the convent served as a passage for souls bound for Hell.
• Hela invited Carol to visit her, saying Daisy and Caroline were family, and Su Ming asked whether she had killed the landlord.

Wanda created an electronic watch with Chaos Magic, but no one could determine whether it could find people. An Eternal arrived and was killed by Thanos, whose memories revealed Druid’s identity and a larger plan, prompting Su Ming to order a fleet deployed in low Earth orbit with its guns aimed at Earth.

• Wanda’s Chaos Magic produced a slim electronic watch, which Carol tried on while the group struggled to identify its functions.
• Carol showed Hela the customizable projections on her Kree combat suit as the group waited for an Eternal to come after Ikaris.
• Thanos killed the arriving Eternal with one punch, and the Orange Cat swept up the remains.
• Deathstroke gave the Eternal’s skull to Strangle, which read the dead man’s memories.
• Su Ming ordered Adjutant to circulate Druid’s image, placed a one-million-dollar bounty on him, and mobilized gunboats to aim at Earth from low orbit.

Thanos killed an Eternal during the meeting, shocking the Eternals who mistook him for a Deviant. After the projections fled, he criticized Ikaris’s leadership, while Deathstroke received word that his fleet was ready to stop Druid’s plan.

• Thanos killed an Eternal and revealed his identity to the horrified attendees.
• Thanos challenged the projected Eternals, who logged off one by one, then called Ikaris an unqualified leader.
• Ikaris regretted the killing, while Hela said the dead Eternal was an enemy and warned that Deathstroke could have killed them all.
• Kro explained that the Deviants feared the Sorcerer Supreme, and Deathstroke mentioned the Goblin King’s troublemaking.
• Deathstroke received confirmation that his fleet was positioned to deal with Druid’s plan, and Su Ming rewarded Kro with a beer for his insight.

Adjutant reported that colossal Hexes had emerged from beneath the oceans, and Ikaris identified them as weapons created by the Celestials. As the Hexes focused on Ikaris, the group prepared to face them.

• Adjutant showed Su Ming and the others footage of massive objects rising from the seabed across the world's oceans.
• Wanda split an oncoming tsunami, revealing a geometric colossus rising from the water.
• Ikaris identified the colossi as Hexes, inorganic weapons related to the Eternals and stored in Kronos's Arsenal.
• Hela and Carol readied themselves as a Hex turned toward the group, while Ikaris warned that Druid had likely sent the weapons to target him.
• Kro took a fighting stance beside Ikaris as the group prepared for the Hexes.

Su Ming, Thanos, and the Eternals watched Druid’s Hex Colossi begin attacking Earth, while Su Ming delayed intervening to let the threat advance his plans for humanity’s cosmic voyage. Wanda effortlessly destroyed the Colossus approaching them, and Su Ming decided to wait while his fleet targeted the others.

• Su Ming explained that Druid had deployed Hex Colossi around the world to reduce humanity’s population, and reassured Ikaris and Thena that he would not blame all Eternals for Druid’s actions.
• Ikaris said one Hex could damage the Moon with a single blow, while Su Ming chose not to stop the Colossi immediately and intended to let their attacks demonstrate that Earth was unsafe.
• Su Ming asked Wanda to test the approaching Hex, and Wanda destroyed its upper half with Chaos Magic.
• Thanos praised Wanda’s destructive power, and Su Ming checked that casting the spell had caused no unusual effects.
• Wanda offered to eliminate every Hex on Earth, but Su Ming refused and said his fleet had already targeted them as he watched Druid’s plan unfold.

The Justice League learned that enormous colossi were advancing from the seafloor toward land, with New York likely to be their first landing site. Barry brought Aquaman to the coast, where Arthur sensed an approaching colossus and set out to confront it.

• Cyborg, Green Lantern John, and Barry reacted to news reports of giant figures emerging from the ocean.
• Gin used Adjutant to show the colossi's paths and confirmed that New York would be the first place they reached.
• Barry pulled Arthur away from an interview and took him to a pier in New York's East Side.
• Arthur sensed through the fish that a colossus was approaching from a few hundred kilometers away.
• Arthur told Barry he could handle the threat, and Barry carried him across the waves toward it at super speed.

Su Ming and his companions watched Arthur and Barry trap a Hex Colossus with summoned sea creatures, then left to deal with the approaching threat to New York. Ikaris, Thena, and Kro stayed behind, blaming Druid for the deaths and vowing to stop him, while Kro secretly drew a dagger.

• Arthur summoned enormous deep-sea creatures that wrapped around the Hex Colossus and dragged it underwater as Barry carried him across the sea.
• Su Ming said the trapped Hex Colossus would eventually be worn down and dismissed concern about the strange sea creatures as long as they did not threaten Earth.
• Deathstroke took Carol, the Orange Cat, Scarlet Witch, Thanos, and Hela on a flying carpet toward New York to evacuate people and deal with the tsunami.
• Ikaris and Thena grieved over the Hex Colossi and blamed Druid for their deaths and his ambition to become Eternal Supreme.
• Kro comforted Ikaris and Thena, then secretly pulled an emerald-green dagger from his armor.

Su Ming explained why he had suspected Kro was Druid’s trap and revealed that the Eternals could be resurrected through a Celestial machine beneath Olympia. As Kro prepared to attack Ikaris or Thena, the group watched from concealment and learned that Hex could not be resurrected.

• Su Ming explained that Kro’s survival and story had exposed him as a trap set by Druid to target Ikaris.
• Su Ming revealed that the Celestials had left the Eternals a machine called Rebirth, which recreated their bodies and restored consciousness backups after death.
• Carol realized that Ikaris had agreed to kill opposing Eternals because he knew they would be resurrected, and Thanos confirmed that his people had removed their genetic records from the machine.
• Wanda asked whether Hex could be resurrected, and Su Ming explained that the machine could not recreate inorganic matter.
• Kro gripped a dagger in his tail and hesitated over whether to stab Thena or Ikaris as Su Ming and the others watched invisibly.

Deathstroke left Ikaris and the others on the Arctic ice and went to Olympia to stop Druid from destroying Ikaris's consciousness backup. He and his companions opened a portal into the Eternal city, where they hoped to find Druid before his attack.

• Deathstroke refused to rescue Ikaris, explaining that his contract made Ikaris responsible for any breach if he died.
• Deathstroke took Thanos and the others to Kamar-Taj, where the Ancient One gave Strangle the coordinates to Olympia's dimensional entrance.
• Deathstroke explained that Druid had psychologically manipulated Kro to target Ikaris, and that Druid's plan also required destroying Ikaris's consciousness backup.
• Wanda opened a rift to Olympia, and Cloak carried the group through it to search for the rebirth device and intercept Druid.
• The Adjutant warned Deathstroke that Blank appeared to be preparing a two-pronged attack on DC's side as well.

Druid searched the Eternals’ consciousness backups and destroyed Ikaris’s stored consciousness, believing the act would let the clan unite under his plan to restore its greatness. The chapter ended with Ikaris dead and Druid committed to carrying out the Celestials’ plan.

• Druid searched the hidden storage devices and found Thena’s consciousness backup, then left it untouched while reflecting on his desire for her.
• Druid recalled covering up Thena’s children with Kro by killing them and erasing Thena’s and Kro’s memories.
• Druid explained that he had captured Kro and placed him under Mind Control to assassinate Ikaris.
• Druid recalled receiving a secret communication from the Celestials and deciding to follow their plan to save the Eternals.
• Druid found Ikaris’s consciousness backup, smashed the crystal, and ground it beneath his foot.

Deathstroke and his allies found Druid at the hidden Rebirth Machine, where Thanos killed him while the team prepared to prevent another revival. After destroying a consciousness-storage Crystal, Deathstroke sent the confused Zuras back to the city garden, leaving Thena likely to become the next Eternal Supreme.

• Druid heard Deathstroke's distorted laughter and failed to use his communicator to escape the Rebirth Machine hall.
• Deathstroke confronted Druid, and Thanos killed him with a punch from the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Su Ming told Carol to watch for Druid's next Consciousness Backup and had her destroy a Crystal in the wall.
• Su Ming learned that Druid could revive once more and sent Hela to block the Rebirth Machine's exit.
• Su Ming spoke with Zuras, who could not recognize his family, then knocked him unconscious and had Cloak return him to the city garden.

Su Ming and his companions found Hela after she killed Druid, and Hela revealed that the concept of death was gathering around her as its power grew. They left Olympia for the Arctic, while Su Ming explained that Druid’s plan to release Ouranos had been stopped and teased Thanos about killing his cousin.

• Su Ming had the Cloak of Levitation take the group to Hela, who was cleaning up Druid’s corpse.
• Thanos observed that Druid had lacked close-combat experience, and Chewie devoured the body.
• Hela told Su Ming that Death’s authority seemed to be shifting onto her, and he explained that the concept of death was gathering around her.
• Hela said she did not want the burden of death’s duty, so Su Ming agreed to leave Olympia and return to the Arctic.
• Su Ming explained that Druid had planned to release Ouranos, Kronos’s brother, but that Ouranos remained sealed in the Exile Zone.
• Su Ming told Thanos that Druid was his cousin, and Thanos said he had enjoyed killing him.

Deathstroke found Thena grieving over Ikaris and Kro’s bodies, learned that Kro had killed Ikaris before Thena recovered memories of their children, and sent her back to Olympia to take charge. As the group traveled to The Flash, Deathstroke said Thena’s surviving half-human son, Joey, made her control of the Eternals beneficial to humanity.

• Cloak returned Deathstroke and the others to the Arctic, where they found Ikaris dead, Kro decapitated, and Thena grieving beside them.
• Thena told Deathstroke that Kro had poisoned Ikaris and that she had killed Kro before recovering memories of their two children.
• Deathstroke promised to avenge Ikaris and urged Thena to return to Olympia and take charge, and she flew away after thanking him.
• Wanda asked whether Deathstroke could control Thena, and he said her son Joey made her leadership of the Eternals useful to humanity.
• Deathstroke directed Cloak to take the group to The Flash and revealed that Joey’s father was the British writer and poet Thomas Elliot.