Chapter Summaries

Elaine brought Deadpool to her Heaven and revealed its vast cosmic reality while taking control of the New Multiverse. As she explained her past, she recounted how Lucifer raised her and how her extraordinary power let her create a universe with ease.

• Elaine brought Deadpool through Heaven's gates, and the reborn Future spread across Earth.
• Elaine showed Deadpool her Heaven and warned him to sense its true nature without using his eyes.
• Deadpool perceived the Omniverse, and Elaine took control of the New Multiverse while telling him about her childhood.
• Elaine explained that Lucifer Morningstar was her uncle, that Michael was her father, and that Lucifer taught her to use her divine power.
• Elaine created a complete Single Universe with a single sentence, surpassing Lucifer's abilities and beginning her own journey of Genesis.

Elaine told Deadpool how she had created her own vast universe and become a God, then revealed her plan to overwrite Hypertime and replace the past. She recruited Deadpool for a secret role in the risky scheme, but what she asked him to do remained unknown.

• Elaine had created her universe in six days, becoming a God before the white-bearded God could stop her.
• The old God had forced Elaine to become the Future God by threatening her friends, while she found emotional support in her uncle Lucifer.
• Elaine explained to Deadpool that she planned to use her worlds to overwrite everything in Hypertime and replace the past.
• Elaine warned Deadpool that he could not kill her target and said she needed him for another plan.
• Elaine offered Deadpool a Golden Apple and secretly told him what she wanted him to do, though the plan remained undisclosed.

Deathstroke and Dream of a Thousand Cats discussed dreams and the Endless before following Batwoman and two girls through a mausoleum passage. They approached a chamber filled with oppressive, high-level energy, while Deathstroke waited to see what Batwoman would do.

• Deathstroke asked Dream of a Thousand Cats whether the Endless had plans for the Future, and they discussed how dreams might endure beyond the lives that created them.
• Batwoman and two girls passed their hiding place unharmed, and Deathstroke followed them with Dream of a Thousand Cats.
• Strangle sensed a high-density energy field ahead as Deathstroke promised to find it and get the Symbiote something good to eat.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats sensed oppressive energy near a light, and Deathstroke spotted Batwoman concealed in the shadows beside it.

Batman led Silver White, Laura, and Enchantress into the Divine Resting Place, where he found a seemingly undefended burial chamber and climbed its central platform. Su Ming, secretly following with Kitty, suspected Batman had a hidden agenda involving The Void, The Source, or God, and decided to watch rather than interfere.

• Silver White asked what kind of sword they were seeking, and Batman said Deathstroke had described it as broken.
• Batman scanned the burial chamber for physical and energy traps, found none, and climbed the stone platform.
• Kitty wondered whether Batman was secretly a speedster, and Su Ming said Batman’s unusual eagerness suggested a hidden mission.
• Su Ming deduced that Batman might have a secret partnership involving The Void, The Source, or God.
• Kitty asked whether Su Ming would kill Batman, and Su Ming said he would let Batman pursue his own ideas while observing him.

Batwoman, Silver White, and Daughter of the Warlock examined a broken sword whose star-shaped reliefs and dormant energy suggested it was more than an ordinary weapon. As Daughter of the Warlock began a spell to awaken its energy, Deathstroke said he had recognized what was inside it.

• Batwoman examined the broken sword and handed it to Silver White, who found it unusually difficult to damage despite its ordinary weight and appearance.
• Daughter of the Warlock sensed sleeping energy in the sword and began drawing a Magic Circle to awaken it.
• Daughter of the Warlock warned Batwoman and Silver White that the sword's energy might go out of control, so they moved behind Silver White.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats identified Daughter of the Warlock's spell as a Vortex Array capable of drawing energy out of a target.
• Deathstroke told Kitty that he had recognized the sword's energy fluctuation and that Quantum had confirmed the target.

Batwoman and Enchantress tried to draw energy from the broken Sword in the Star, but the Force of Connection appeared and confronted them. Batwoman trapped it in a force field and demanded answers, while Deathstroke and Kitty watched from hiding.

• Enchantress used a spell to repair the Sword in the Star and began drawing out its blue energy.
• The Force of Connection appeared and demanded to know why the group was touching its property.
• Batwoman identified it as the Enigma Force, but it explained that it had become the Force of Connection after merging with Wayfinder.
• The Force of Connection offered to make Batwoman the next Captain Universe, but she refused and pressed it about its connection to Enigma.
• Batwoman trapped the Force of Connection in a force field and threatened it until it cooperated.
• Deathstroke and Kitty watched invisibly as Deathstroke realized Batwoman had stolen and modified his technology.

Deathstroke planned to retaliate against Batwoman by stealing rare whisky and arranging a dream to cover it up, while he investigated the forces within the Sword in the Star. After identifying the Enigma Force’s energy, he returned to Kamar-Taj to seek Ancient One’s advice on taking his physical body to a higher plane.

• Deathstroke told Kitty he wanted to steal Batwoman’s 1930s Beauty whiskies and asked for help making Batwoman dream that she had drunk them herself.
• Kitty agreed to tell Daniel and asked what Batwoman could learn from Uni-Force; Deathstroke explained that its independent will made it unlikely to cooperate.
• Deathstroke approached the Sword in the Star while Enchantress and Silver White were distracted, and identified the energy trait of the Enigma Force within it.
• Deathstroke left Batwoman to deal with Uni-Force’s incarnation and returned to Kamar-Taj on 40K Earth to seek Ancient One’s advice about raising his physical body to a higher level.

Su Ming asked Ancient One about realms beyond the Omniverse and learned of several possible routes to reach a higher level. He left without an easy answer, weighing a search for the White Hot Room, the Heart of the Universe, or the Celestial Order.

• Su Ming visited Ancient One at Kamar-Taj and asked whether anything existed beyond the Omniverse.
• Ancient One said she had heard that the White Hot Room inside the McCallen Crystal could lead to a higher level, and suggested seeking the Phoenix Force for more information.
• Su Ming asked whether the Path to a Thousand Realities could take him beyond the Omniverse, but Ancient One could not confirm that realities existed there.
• Ancient One suggested finding the Heart of the Universe and said the Celestial Order had been the last race known to see it.
• Su Ming asked for an easier way to find the higher level, and Ancient One jokingly told him to go home and look for it in his dreams.

Su Ming consulted Little Rich for scientific and logical ways to reach a higher level after finding the Enigma Force’s energy signature. Little Rich proposed several options, but the chapter left Su Ming weighing their risks and uncertainties.

• Su Ming asked the Adjutant to connect him with Little Rich and explained that he wanted methods for reaching a higher level, after recounting Ancient One’s suggestions.
• Little Rich proposed finding Earth-616’s Steel-Cutting Divine Sword, also known as the Sword in the Stone or Excalibur, but the Adjutant could not yet locate the sword or its former holder.
• Little Rich suggested using the Cosmic Matrix, and Ancient One explained that Ultimate Merlin, Necrom, and Feron had created it and might know where it was.
• Su Ming dismissed the idea of seeking information from the three powerful, unstable spellcasters.
• Little Rich suggested interrogating Deadpool because of his unusual abilities, but Su Ming rejected the plan and said Deadpool was already handling another task.

Deathstroke rejected every path to higher levels suggested by Ancient One and Little Rich, suspecting that some outside force had planted those ideas. He decided to seek help from the mysterious Old Man, whose identity he described to Kitty as they headed into space.

• Deathstroke told Kitty that Ancient One and Little Rich had never pursued the methods they suggested, leading him to suspect the options were a trap.
• Kitty mentioned rumors about the conflict between Past God and Future God, but Deathstroke said he had no interest in Heaven's affairs.
• Deathstroke ruled out every suggested method and said he would use a backup plan he had prepared after The Batman Who Laughs proposed climbing over the wall.
• Deathstroke identified Old Man as the person he would ask for help and described his many past identities to Kitty.
• Deathstroke carried Kitty into space, saying he would offer Old Man terms he could not refuse.

Batwoman secretly brought the captured Uni-Force to the Hall of Justice and asked Jar-ro to extract information from it. Meanwhile, Peter Parker traveled through space with Jessica Jones, Squirrel Girl, and their crew, chatting with Little Fatty as the ship searched for a habitable world.

• Batwoman secretly entered the Hall of Justice and gave the Uni-Force to Jar-ro, who promised to learn what was in its mind.
• Enchantress questioned Silver White about Batwoman's secrecy, while the Uni-Force curiously observed its surroundings.
• Peter Parker traveled through space as the ship's Second Mate while the crew searched for a habitable planet.
• Peter chatted with Little Fatty, who complained about being left behind and planned to join him in space.
• Peter told Little Fatty that the ship's network worked without noticeable delay even though they were thirty thousand light-years from Earth.

Peter Parker and Ned chatted about the ship’s systems while Deathstroke confronted Stan Lee in the engine room, seeking help to travel beyond the Omniverse. Stan refused, warning that doing so would violate Marvel’s established narrative limits, and the chapter ended with Kitty asking whether Stan was a higher-level being.

• Peter Parker and Ned enthusiastically discussed the ship’s communications, propulsion, and air circulation systems.
• Deathstroke found Stan Lee in the engine room and demanded that he help him go beyond the Omniverse.
• Stan refused and explained that expanding Marvel’s stories beyond the Omniverse would break the established power system and narrative ceiling.
• Kitty recognized Stan’s remarks about the Editorial Department as hints about beings outside their reality and asked whether he was a higher-level being.
• Deathstroke described Stan as Marvel’s Supreme God, flattering him while answering Kitty.

Su Ming explained that Enigma and a threat from beyond the Omniverse were endangering the Marvel Universe, and Old Man Li agreed the crisis came from changes to the universe’s original conception. Old Man Li was willing to help but could offer no immediate way to contact the Editorial Department, so he asked Su Ming to explain the threat.

• In the spaceship’s engine room, Deathstroke told Kitty about Old Man Li, and Su Ming explained that something from above had begun threatening the Marvel Universe.
• Old Man Li suspected that someone had changed the original setting by escalating power levels and criticized the resulting approach to storytelling.
• Kitty agreed with Old Man Li and discussed its origins as Dream of a Thousand Cats in the DC Universe.
• Su Ming asked Old Man Li to help locate Enigma and prevent the Marvel Universe from becoming a sacrificial offering.
• Old Man Li said he was considered dead by the Editorial Department and could not contact it through dreams, then asked Su Ming to describe the thing causing the crisis.

Su Ming learned from Old Li that OAA might understand the universe best and received a drawing pointing him toward the One Above All. Meanwhile, Lucifer continued fighting Enigma and saving survivors, while Voice of God urged him to hurry; Lucifer was deliberately stalling and training as he waited for an event to occur.

• Su Ming told Old Li about the strange events he had encountered, and Old Li agreed that the situation was urgent.
• Su Ming provoked Old Li into suggesting he seek OAA, and Old Li drew him a manga showing the way.
• Su Ming took Kitty and Big Cat and left the ship by Quantum Teleportation.
• Lucifer fought Enigma five more times as it swallowed five Single Universes, while Lucifer saved a town and moved its residents into his own universe.
• Lucifer threw Voice of God into the void, then destroyed the territory he had just saved and asked God to face Enigma himself.
• Voice of God explained that God could not enter the mortal world, while Lucifer continued stalling and training as he waited for an event.

Deathstroke explained that Stan Lee’s signature on the comic page was a ticket to finding TOAA, then flew through space with Kitty and told it about its origins. Elsewhere, an Origin Judge fox weighed its orders against a strong sense of danger and searched for a third course of action.

• Deathstroke told Kitty that the key to the comic page was Stan Lee’s signature, which would serve as a ticket to TOAA.
• As Cloak carried him through space, Deathstroke promised to tell Kitty about Jim Lee and Neil Gaiman, then began explaining its origins and Mandrakk.
• An Origin Judge fox considered searching the New Multiverse for the missing Hands of Creation or looking for Multiverse 1 and Origin Falcon.
• The fox felt danger no matter which path it considered, so it hesitated to obey the Origin Court’s orders and began looking for another option.

Elaine led Deadpool through a strange, shadow-filled realm toward The Void, planning to use him to harass an old immortal while she held it back. Deadpool joked, asked for a power-up, and finally spotted The Void without suffering any harm.

• Deadpool chattered at Elaine and chased away the shadow creatures that tugged at him.
• Elaine reminded Deadpool that their plan was for her to restrain the target while he harassed it into submission.
• Deadpool asked Elaine to give him some of the Heaven energy she had given Lucifer, but she refused and conjured him a veggie Hamburger instead.
• Elaine warned Deadpool not to look toward The Void, but he pointed out its enormous vortex and compared it to a bathroom drain without being affected.

Elaine brought Deadpool to the Unlight Sea to negotiate a new contract with the Great Evil Beast and establish a new balance for the future. The Beast rejected her approach, and their battle began, leaving Deadpool vaporized but still livestreaming.

• Deadpool asked Elaine about their target and the location, and she identified the Unlight Sea as Shadow Land and the Source of All Evil.
• Elaine protected Deadpool from the Gray Mist and led him to the Great Evil Beast.
• Elaine demanded a new contract, and the Great Evil Beast warned that she had entered its domain.
• Elaine challenged the Great Evil Beast, and the two began fighting after it called for battle.
• The clash vaporized Deadpool into quantum-level particles, but he continued addressing his livestream viewers.

Su Ming traveled with Dream of a Thousand Cats to the edge of the 40K Universe, intending to make The One Above All come to him rather than seek it out. He crossed into his neighboring 40K-1 Universe and took the cat to see a planet he had polluted with a zombie-virus experiment.

• Su Ming flew toward the edge of the universe with Dream of a Thousand Cats and said The One Above All needed to find him.
• Su Ming opened a door through the Cosmic Crystal Wall, checked the gap for Watcher corpses, and entered the 40K-1 Universe.
• Su Ming told Dream of a Thousand Cats that Adjutant managed many of his universes and joked about his universe names and Batwoman’s contingency plans.
• Su Ming discussed his relationship with Diana and said he accepted responsibility for being with her.
• Su Ming explained that he had released a long-named zombie virus on the yellow-green planet they approached.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats agreed to look around the polluted planet while resting on Su Ming.

Su Ming and Dream of a Thousand Cats observed how survivors farmed amid the zombie crisis on Earth 40K-1 before leaving to explore space. Adjutant then reported that a Celestials mothership was heading toward Multiverse 1, and Su Ming decided to intercept it.

• Su Ming and Dream of a Thousand Cats watched a small armed farming team sow crops and learned that the world’s Superheroes mostly led settlements.
• Deathstroke explained that the zombie crisis generated darkness and Concept Power, though 40K-1 produced less than larger multiverses.
• Su Ming offered to take Dream of a Thousand Cats to haunted 40K-2, but it declined, so they flew through space while awaiting The One Above All.
• Adjutant reported that a Celestials mothership was traveling toward Multiverse 1, and Franklin confirmed its energy level appeared to belong to their true bodies.
• Su Ming decided to meet the Celestials first, with Dream of a Thousand Cats accompanying him.

Su Ming learned that Oshtur, Hoggoth, and God Eater had killed Origin Falcon and divided his Origin energy, then prepared to rendezvous with Celestial Destroyer to face the Celestials. He chose Loki as the team’s spellcaster after seeing her plotting an ice-fishing prank on Thor.

• The Adjutant reported that Oshtur, Hoggoth, and God Eater had killed Origin Falcon and distributed his Origin energy, leaving Su Ming without a share.
• Su Ming promised Black Bean Sprout that he would find the Origin Court for it to eat, while Kitty doubted the Court had a physical form.
• Su Ming ordered the Adjutant to teleport him and God Eater to meet Celestial Destroyer, but decided not to summon Illyana from The Boys Universe.
• Su Ming and the Adjutant chose Loki to serve as their spellcaster and checked what she was doing.
• Loki prepared to trick Thor into digging an ice hole so she could knock him into it and make a crude pun to Frigga and Sif.