Chapter Summaries

Deathstroke and the Adjutant watched Black Snow consume an entire universe without the invader appearing, then Deathstroke took Dream to the Garden of Death to seek answers. They found Mephisto waiting there, lamenting that Death was missing.

• Franklin began researching samples of Black Snow and its maggots while Wanda stayed in the Beyond Realm to monitor the Megaverse.
• Deathstroke discussed two ways to learn about the invader: question Death through Miracle Maker's saved souls or consult other Spider Totems.
• Black Snow spread across and consumed the entire Single Universe, vanishing it instantly without revealing the invader.
• Deathstroke told the Adjutant to guard Sepulk as their escape route, then left with Dream to visit the Garden of Death.
• Deathstroke greeted Mephisto, who complained that Deadpool had run off with Goddess and that Death had not returned.

Su Ming questioned Mephisto and the cleansed souls about the missing programmer known as “Miracle Maker,” but found no sign of him. He then sought the Great Weaver’s advice about the Black Snow incident and left with several ancient beings to consult.

• Su Ming threatened Mephisto with the God Eater, then dismissed his request to put Su Ming’s promise in a contract.
• Su Ming asked the line of cleansed souls whether anyone had used the name “Miracle Maker,” but no one stepped forward.
• Su Ming warned Mephisto not to tell Thanos that Death was with him, then teleported away to seek information from the spiders.
• The Great Weaver said it knew nothing about the missing Spider-God relative and suggested Su Ming consult Starro, Shuma-Gorath, Hoggoth, or the Planet Eater.
• The Great Weaver suggested that the Black Snow incident might have occurred in a previous Firmament era.

Su Ming consulted the Spider-God and Hoggoth about the Black Snow, an Omniversal parasite that had invaded his universe. Hoggoth knew little about how to stop it but offered to join a fight if Su Ming managed to corner it.

• Su Ming instructed the Spider-God to watch over a list of important people and keep Spider-Man alive.
• Su Ming summoned Hoggoth with an offering of roast chickens, joss paper, and candles.
• Hoggoth explained that the Black Snow was an Omniversal parasite that consumed matter, energy, and concepts.
• Su Ming asked whether the Black Snow could be found and killed, and Hoggoth agreed to help fight it if it was cornered.

Su Ming learned that an invisible woodworm was attacking worlds and tried to get the dying Galactus to reveal its name. Galactus died again before he could finish, leaving Su Ming to suspect that the secret was being suppressed at the story level.

• Su Ming told the cat he planned to exploit the invader's weakness as a woodworm and asked Adjutant to locate Galactus.
• Su Ming and the cat found Galactus badly injured on a barren planet, and Su Ming used Cosmic Energy to keep him alive.
• Galactus warned Su Ming that a bug had attacked him and urged him to alert Eternity, Infinity, Oblivion, and Death, but he died before explaining its nature.
• Su Ming reversed time and revived Galactus, then asked for the creature's name, but Galactus died again just as he began to answer.
• The cat concluded that someone was preventing Galactus from revealing the secret at the level of the story itself.

Deathstroke tried to learn who had attacked Galactus, but a mysterious force killed the giant whenever he tried to reveal anything. After failing to bypass the restriction through time reversal, dreams, and timeline searches, Deathstroke had Adjutant take the still-dying Galactus away and prepared to seek out the intruder.

• Deathstroke reversed time and asked Galactus to write down his attacker’s name, but Galactus died as he tried to comply.
• Deathstroke tried to distract Galactus and read his memories with Strangle, but Galactus died again before the attempt could work.
• Deathstroke revived Galactus so Dream of a Thousand Cats could inspect his dreams, but Galactus fell into eternal sleep.
• Deathstroke searched seventy million Timelines connected to Galactus, but the moments of his encounters with the intruder were obscured.
• Deathstroke froze Galactus in a state between life and death and had Adjutant teleport him away for preservation.

Su Ming learned that Deadpool’s Mushroom Zombie operation had drawn an Origin Judge into the New Multiverse ahead of schedule. Deadpool asked for help repairing his Teleportation Belt, but Su Ming told him to keep the Judge occupied while he sought reinforcements.

• Su Ming arrived in Wakanda with the gray cat as Deadpool contacted him from hiding, reporting that an Origin Judge had come for him in the New Multiverse.
• Deadpool explained that he had spread Mushroom Zombies through Parallel Worlds to provoke the Hand of Creation into fighting the Hand of the Void.
• Deadpool said the Origin Judge was trying to capture him and seal him inside a new Totality, and his Teleportation Belt had stopped working.
• Su Ming told Deadpool to hold off the Judge because every one kept busy would reduce the pressure on his side.
• Deadpool said he could handle the Judge if Su Ming found a Synthezoid to repair his Teleportation Belt.

Deathstroke sent Cable to help Deadpool repair his broken Teleportation Belt, but Deadpool had no idea where they were after escaping into another Multiversal System. Cable went outside to look for parts, only to find a gigantic green eye watching the house.

• Deathstroke teleported Cable, still in pajamas, to Deadpool’s basement to repair the belt.
• Deadpool explained that he needed the belt fixed because someone was pursuing him, and Cable discovered ketchup and overuse had damaged its circuitry.
• Cable asked Deadpool where they were and learned that they had landed at a random location in another Multiversal System.
• Deadpool sent Cable outside to check for the pursuer and find electronic components while he stayed hidden in the basement.
• Cable saw a huge green eye filling the sky, then retreated into the house and tried to reassure himself that it could not see him.

Su Ming entered the Purple Plain with Dream of a Thousand Cats to seek the Leopard God’s help against the King Maggot. He learned the Leopard God had gone to visit the White Tiger God and waited with the ancestral Black Panthers.

• Su Ming reassured Dream of a Thousand Cats that Deadpool could handle the Origin Judge Falcon, then explained that he planned to meet the Leopard God for help against the King Maggot.
• Su Ming ate Heart-Shaped Herb and fell asleep, bringing Dream of a Thousand Cats into the Purple Plain with him.
• Su Ming fed the ancestral Black Panthers canned food and dried fish while they waited beneath the baobab tree.
• One of the leopards told Su Ming that the Leopard God had gone to visit the White Tiger God.
• Su Ming decided to wait for the Leopard God and asked the leopards what they thought of Wakanda entering the Space Age; they unanimously supported it.

Su Ming visited the Leopard God with Dream of a Thousand Cats and asked about changes in the Megaverse. The Leopard God shared what happened to the Ancient Gods after the First God War, leaving Su Ming to hear about their fates after the conflict.

• Dream of a Thousand Cats wondered why the Leopard God had turned the souls of Wakanda’s past kings into leopards, and Su Ming explained that it had made them its dependents.
• Su Ming and Dream of a Thousand Cats discussed loneliness and the nature of individual consciousness.
• The Leopard God returned to the purple plain, recognized Su Ming, and asked whether he had come because of changes in the Megaverse.
• Su Ming offered the Leopard God roast chickens in exchange for information, and the Leopard God agreed to tell him what it knew.
• The Leopard God recounted how Gaea, Chthon, Set, Oshtur, and other Ancient Gods had fared after the First God War, and described how the survivors dispersed or changed their forms.

Leopard God explained that its knowledge came from ancient refugees and began revealing the deeper origin of the Enigma Force to Deathstroke. It warned him that a mistake in the matter could get people killed, then started its story with Wayfinder’s sacrifice.

• Leopard God recounted Earth’s history after the ancient gods departed, including the Celestials’ experiments and the rise of later gods.
• Leopard God asked Deathstroke about his past encounter with the Uni-Force, and Deathstroke described how it had possessed Deadpool to help him overcome Joker Cow.
• Deathstroke recalled Wayfinder, the first true Captain Universe, and his sacrifice for his people.
• Leopard God said the Enigma Force’s origin was more complicated than Deathstroke thought and allowed him to record the explanation, while warning him not to involve his real friends.
• Leopard God began explaining that Wayfinder had realized he had to give himself entirely to the Enigma Force to protect his people.

The Leopard God explained the relationship between the Enigma Force and the Uni-Force, revealing that the force came from the mysterious being Enigma beyond the Omniverse. Su Ming connected this account to the Sword in the Star and wondered when such a powerful being had appeared in the Marvel Universe.

• The Leopard God told Su Ming that Wayfinder Prince died after creating the Quantum Realm and became the Time Traveler through his soul’s connection to the Enigma Force.
• Su Ming concluded that the Enigma Force was a higher-level entity and the Uni-Force was its independently conscious avatar within a Single Universe.
• The Leopard God said Earth-616 had four Time Travelers and explained that the Enigma Force reused the souls of its former hosts after their deaths.
• The Leopard God revealed that the Enigma Force came from Enigma, a mysterious being beyond the Omniverse, and was only a small extension of that existence.
• The Leopard God explained that Wayfinder Prince had sought the Enigma Force through the Sword in the Star, prompting Su Ming to question who had forged the swords and when Enigma had entered the Marvel Universe.

Deathstroke questioned the Leopard God about Enigma, but learned that Galactus had been silenced before he could reveal anything. After gathering the available clues, Deathstroke left the dream and returned to Wakanda, still searching for Enigma’s origin and location.

• The Leopard God said King Maggot’s abilities resembled Enigma’s and suggested that Galactus might know about the Sixth Firmament era.
• Deathstroke said Galactus had died whenever he tried to ask a critical question, while the Leopard God claimed their conversation took place only in a dream.
• The Leopard God listed other possible sources of knowledge and realized that most had died or were unavailable, leaving him as one of the few informed survivors.
• Deathstroke ended the conversation, told the Leopard God to stay put, and left the dream for the cave in Wakanda.
• Deathstroke quietly left the cave and saw that many Wakandans had moved into space to establish an outpost alongside Doctor Doom’s Latverians.

Deathstroke prepared to alert powerful allies about Mystery’s invasion while the cat left to warn the Endless. In another world, Cable stuck with Deadpool, who disguised himself as a woman to evade the enormous green-eyed creature watching them.

• Deathstroke told the cat he had no need for an heir and agreed that it should carry intelligence about Mystery to the Endless, after notifying Batwoman.
• The cat took the copied recordings and USB drives, then vanished to deliver the warning while Deathstroke planned to brief the Justice League.
• Deathstroke told Strangle he suspected God and The One Above All already knew about Mystery and might have fought it before.
• In Victorian-era London, Cable insisted on staying with Deadpool because the Plot Continuity Gem made him feel safer near its holder.
• Deadpool dressed in a white gown, wig, makeup, and rotten apples, believing the creature would fail to recognize him.

Deadpool disguised himself as a woman and joined Cable on a search for components to repair Cable’s belt in 19th Century United Kingdom. They set off in the direction chosen by Deadpool’s shoe toss while Origin Falcon watched them from the sky.

• Deadpool dressed in a white Marilyn Monroe-style dress and went out with Cable, who warned that he would leave Deadpool behind if their disguise was exposed.
• Passersby vomited at the sight and smell of Deadpool, while Cable stopped him from removing his mask under Origin Falcon’s gaze.
• Cable explained that he needed raw materials to make electronic components, but neither he nor Deadpool knew where to find them.
• Deadpool used his Shoe Tossing for Directions trick and led Cable onward, then joked about Slade and his Symbiotes.

A grieving believer cursed God after a plane crash killed his wife and children but left him unharmed, blaming God for the tragedy and the debt that followed. He ended the chapter in an abandoned church, calling God a liar and bidding farewell to his faith.

• A drunken man entered an abandoned church carrying stolen alcohol and red paint.
• He climbed onto the altar and wrote “liar” on the statue of Jesus, then vomited and cursed it.
• He recounted how he had lost his job and prayed for God to show him a way forward.
• A crashing Boeing 747 killed his wife and children, while he survived without injury.
• The FBI questioned him as a suspected terrorist, but released him, and his hospital bill left him with nothing.
• He declared that God had given him what he did not want and came to the church to bid God farewell.

Lucifer killed a grieving man in an illusion, then confronted the Voice of God about the missing Multiverse 1 and a potential alliance with Deathstroke. He left the church to see how the threatened world would disappear, while declaring his support for Elaine and the Future.

• Lucifer used an illusion to grant a grieving man the death he had wished for, then reduced him to ashes in the church.
• Lucifer killed the Voice of God’s dog avatar when it tried to hurry him, and the Voice returned in a new dog body to apologize.
• Lucifer denied killing the Body of God and learned from the Voice that Mother Night was working with Deathstroke.
• The Voice warned Lucifer that the world was among the next targets set to disappear and argued that God sought to save humanity.
• Lucifer rejected the Voice’s claims, left the church to inspect the threatened world, and said he supported Elaine and the Future.

Batwoman received Deathstroke’s intelligence through a dream delivered by Dream of a Thousand Cats and woke with plans to visit the Hall of Justice. Elsewhere, two colossal robots retreated aboard a covert spaceship after detecting an invasion they believed impossible to resist.

• Two colossal robots aboard a transparent spaceship discussed an external invasion and humanity’s failure, then began a withdrawal operation.
• Batwoman realized she was dreaming and suspected Deathstroke had arranged the dream through Dream of a Thousand Cats.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats delivered Deathstroke’s message on a flash drive, and Batwoman reviewed the intelligence in seconds.
• Batwoman ordered Dream of a Thousand Cats to wake her and returned to the Batcave without asking for an explanation.
• Alfred said he had not seen Batwoman fall asleep, and she recorded coded intelligence before asking him to activate her flying vehicle so she could go to the Hall of Justice.

Deathstroke surveyed Latveria and considered how Batwoman could investigate Enigma while he conserved his own effort. The Adjutant then reported that Enigma had changed another universe, and Deathstroke ordered a probe to examine its Earth.

• Deathstroke flew over Latveria and found its people obedient under Doctor Doom's rule and the country stable and prosperous.
• Deathstroke decided to rely on Batwoman and her Mystic Side allies to investigate the Enigma Force.
• The Adjutant warned Deathstroke that Enigma had caused drastic changes in another Single Universe.
• Deathstroke asked the Adjutant to check Earth in that universe using an unmanned probe and Franklin's dimensional observation system.

Su Ming investigated a universe where people were being killed by their own shadows and discovered that its apocalypse reflected the perception of an earlier observer. Adjutant found Lucifer in Los Angeles, where he was accompanied by the Voice of God.

• Su Ming watched a woman in New York flee her attacking shadow before it bound her and nailed her to a cross.
• Su Ming realized the universe's unusual apocalypse might reflect another observer's perception and ordered Adjutant to expand her scan.
• Adjutant searched the United States and quickly located Lucifer outside a remote church in Los Angeles County.
• Su Ming recognized Lucifer and noticed the Voice of God was lying at his feet, prompting him to wonder what God was planning.

Su Ming listened in as Lucifer argued with Voice of God about the doomed world and God’s plans for its believers. Lucifer refused to leave and suspected Deathstroke was watching them, while Su Ming remained hidden nearby.

• Su Ming identified Lucifer as the world’s Watcher and learned that Enigma had shaped the apocalypse around crosses.
• Voice of God urged Lucifer to leave the doomed world and claimed God’s believers would prosper in Heaven.
• Lucifer revealed that Seventh Heaven was a reserve for souls who would be turned into mindless Angel soldiers, then attacked Voice of God’s dog host.
• Voice of God returned in a new dog host and asked Lucifer to take it to Deathstroke, warning that the power behind the world’s countdown could threaten them.
• Lucifer dismissed the danger, and Voice of God warned that Deathstroke might notice the unfamiliar universe and investigate.
• Lucifer sensed that someone was watching and searched the shadows and distant manhole covers while Su Ming listened unseen.