Chapter Summaries

Deadpool followed a Tidal Fly through the abandoned Observer's Berth after its hidden handler offered to pay him and promised to explain where he was. The handler revealed that Crown Above All Things had already been defeated in their timeline, but Deadpool refused to believe Slade and humanity could lose.

• A Tidal Fly contacted Deadpool and said it was a message relay created by Franklin, while its unseen handler asked him to follow it.
• Deadpool questioned the handler's motives and demanded payment, then agreed to follow the Tidal Fly because his cousin was waiting to be rescued.
• Deadpool traveled through a crystal-lined tunnel as the handler identified the location as Observer's Berth, a former Tidal Fly breeding facility.
• Deadpool asked how he had ended up there after entering Crown Above All Things, and the handler postponed the explanation until they met.
• The handler told Deadpool that Crown Above All Things had already happened in their timeline and that they had lost, but Deadpool insisted Slade and humanity could not be defeated.

Deadpool followed the Tidal Fly through CAAT and learned that the place was called the Ninth Cosmos, a revelation that left him wondering how the Omniverse’s Timeline had changed. He asked the Livestream for information and learned that the historical archives had no record of him, though the Tidal Fly suggested he might be a Splitter.

• The Tidal Fly guided Deadpool through CAAT while its unseen speaker explained that the history he knew might not be true.
• Deadpool asked whether he was inside CAAT and learned that CAAT had replaced Mystery, leaving everyone in a special state.
• The mysterious speaker identified their location as the Ninth Cosmos, startling Deadpool because he had expected the Omniverse to be at an earlier Firmament.
• Deadpool worried that Cousin might be dead, then calmed himself by deciding he was a variable who could still change the Timeline.
• Deadpool asked the Livestream to look up the Ninth Cosmos and learned from the Tidal Fly that the historical archives had no record of him, though he might be a Splitter like the Heralds of Galactus and Franklin.

Deadpool followed a Tidal Fly through an asteroid cave and learned that space in the Ninth Cosmos contained oxygen. Outside, he discovered a derelict building and learned that the fly planned to take him to its homeworld, 0%los, also known as Earth-TRN781.

• Deadpool learned from the Livestream that the Ninth Cosmos was an iterative dimension, but decided he needed to see it for himself.
• The Tidal Fly explained that oxygen existed in space in the Ninth Cosmos and warned Deadpool not to mistake it for a personal power.
• Deadpool and the Tidal Fly emerged from the cave into a barren stretch of space near a ruined building and drifting asteroids.
• Deadpool headed for the building, figuring it contained the equipment needed to reach the fly's homeworld, which was a million light-years away.
• The Tidal Fly said its homeworld was called 0%los, then recalled that Franklin had also called it Earth-TRN781, which reassured Deadpool.

Deadpool entered the abandoned Observer's Berth with Tidal Fly, while Su Ming escaped Anti-Everything through the sewers and considered how to reach the World of Creation. The chapter left Su Ming planning to use TOAA's power to oppose Anti-Everything, though the Symbiotes warned that a higher-level TOBA incarnation could make the plan dangerous.

• Tidal Fly explained that the outpost had once been called Watcher before it fused with a meteorite, and Deadpool criticized its run-down interior.
• Su Ming met Viel Aivo, learned that only six fairies remained, and left as the building vanished behind him.
• Su Ming used the Speed Force to flee through the sewers and reached a black settling pool at the city's edge.
• Su Ming discussed luring Anti-Everything toward a higher-level TOAA incarnation by entering the World of Creation.
• The Symbiotes warned Su Ming that a higher-level TOBA incarnation might trap them, while Su Ming dismissed the Living Tribunal as too weak to help.

Su Ming encountered Farys, a strange creature from the Ninth Cosmos who had traveled 150 million years into the past to warn him about CAAT. After recognizing Farys and learning that CAAT planned to ambush him, Su Ming prepared to use the warning to his advantage.

• Su Ming waited by the pool while Anti-Everything circled above the city, then pulled a mysterious creature out of the sewer water.
• The creature revived, recognized Su Ming as Deathstroke, and urged him to run.
• The creature introduced itself as Farys, a human from the future, and warned that CAAT would ambush and replace Su Ming during his coming fight.
• Su Ming recognized Farys as one of the New Trinity from the Ninth Cosmos and wondered why it had sought him instead of Franklin.
• Farys's warning gave Su Ming advance knowledge of CAAT's planned ambush.

Su Ming questioned Farys about the future events surrounding Anti-Everything, TOBA, and CAAT, but Farys knew only that Su Ming disappeared after CAAT ambushed him. Su Ming concluded that avoiding a confrontation with Anti-Everything might prevent the ambush, though Farys could not return to the Ninth Cosmos to help him act there.

• Su Ming asked Farys how he had defeated Anti-Everything, and Farys admitted he knew only that Su Ming later disappeared for 150 million years.
• The Symbiote objected to Farys's suggestion that Su Ming might have been lost in the void, while Su Ming acknowledged that such isolation could change him.
• Su Ming inferred that CAAT had ambushed him while TOBA and Anti-Everything were fighting, and reasoned that avoiding that conflict might avert the outcome.
• Farys urged Su Ming to retreat from the Timeline, but Su Ming argued that TOBA would let CAAT erase most of existence because that served its goal.
• Farys revealed that his journey had destroyed the Watcher's Ship and left him unable to return to the Ninth Cosmos, while Su Ming regretted losing the chance to make plans there.

Deathstroke arranged for Farys to wait while he pursued the main quest and sought a way to reach the World of Creation. Batwoman visited Joker in the Batcave to ask for help with CAAT, and Joker claimed she had overlooked exploiting the human heart.

• Farys said rebuilding the Time Shuttle alone would take at least thirty years, and Deathstroke told him to wait while he handled the main quest.
• Deathstroke said he would meet the last of the Seven Fairies and try to enter the World of Creation to pass Anti-Everything to someone else.
• Batwoman found Joker in the Black Prison, where he was delighted that she had survived and their game could continue.
• Batwoman explained CAAT to Joker because her own plans seemed too ordinary to surpass Deathstroke's.
• Joker said Batwoman had forgotten to exploit the human heart, then refused to share his idea and urged her to hit him.

Batwoman refused to indulge the Joker’s attempts to provoke her, leaving him frustrated and laughing in his cell. Elsewhere, Deadpool met Par%l, a strange-looking being who identified herself as a human and the Guardian of 0% Los, and she asked him to meet someone.

• The Joker demanded that Batwoman hit him and tried to provoke her with insults, but she remained silent and watched him.
• The Joker grew increasingly agitated, eventually smashing his head against the wall and pulling out his hair.
• Deadpool encountered a creature resembling a flower or uterus and reacted with alarm, complaining about the prospect of the scene being censored.
• Par%l introduced herself to Deadpool as a member of the New Trinity and the current Guardian of 0% Los.
• Par%l explained that 0% Los was the last habitable planet in the cosmos and asked Deadpool to come meet someone.

Deadpool arrived in the Ninth Cosmos and learned from Pal%Ai that the people and enemies he remembered had died in earlier cosmic eras. Pal%Ai led him toward someone who had predicted his arrival, but Deadpool still did not know who was waiting for him.

• Deadpool complained to Pal%Ai that his movie had been ruined, then agreed to meet the person waiting for him.
• Pal%Ai told Deadpool that Deathstroke had sacrificed himself one hundred and fifty million years earlier, and Deadpool guessed that Franklin might be waiting for him.
• Pal%Ai explained that Franklin had died in the Battle of the End when Hulk, controlled by TOBA, killed him.
• Pal%Ai recounted how TOBA and TOAA came from the same entity, how CAAT defeated TOAA, and how the Ninth Cosmos was reduced to a planetary stronghold in the Space of Love.
• Deadpool guessed that Doctor Doom was waiting for him, but Pal%Ai said Doom had died earlier and that Deadpool might not have survived the destruction of the Seventh Firmament.

Deadpool reached the Ninth Cosmos and discovered that Harley had brought Batwoman there as part of a backup plan. Batwoman had learned the method she needed from the Joker and left him behind in his cell.

• Deadpool joked with Par%Ai as she led him toward someone waiting in the blinding light.
• Deadpool recognized the speaker as Batwoman and blurted out his surprise at seeing her there.
• Batwoman questioned the Joker about a method, then left after saying she already knew the answer.
• The Joker tried to stop Batwoman from leaving, but she disappeared into the darkness.
• Harley revealed that she had driven Batwoman to Deadpool and explained how TOAA had sent them to the Ninth Cosmos as backup.

Harley and Batwoman questioned Deadpool about Slade and his unusual abilities, while Su Ming searched the fourth stage for a way forward. The riddle’s answer was “where,” and Su Ming and Strangle suspected they needed to find a place for a fill-in-the-blank exercise.

• Deadpool accepted Harley’s account of the situation and learned that she and Batwoman had arrived three hours earlier.
• Harley defended Pal%Ai and asked her to prepare food before the group set off.
• Batwoman asked Deadpool to explain Slade’s current situation and questioned whether he believed his own abilities.
• Su Ming ran through the fourth-stage city, discussing his suspicions with Strangle and worrying that enemies might be watching him.
• Su Ming concluded that the riddle’s answer was “where,” and he and Strangle considered looking for a school and a blackboard.

Su Ming and Farys traveled through the sewers toward the school, which Su Ming suspected was the puzzle’s answer. They prepared to climb into the city above, where Anti-Everything might be waiting.

• Deathstroke deduced that the locations of the Seven Fairies spelled “School” after Anti-Everything removed the W-linked fairy.
• Su Ming returned to Farys and said they would head to The World of Creation.
• Farys said he had heard of The World of Creation and recalled ancient terms for realms beyond the Omniverse.
• Su Ming sped through the sewers on the Cloak of Levitation and reached a ladder beneath the school.
• Su Ming warned Farys not to interfere if they met Anti-Everything, and Farys agreed to listen while insisting he could help.

Su Ming and Farys searched the school’s teaching building for the answer to the cloze-test riddle, focusing on places connected to the number seven. When writing “where” in every Class Seven classroom did nothing, they headed for the Bell Tower, where Su Ming hoped to find the next clue.

• Deathstroke pulled Farys from the sewers and led it across the dark campus into the teaching building, avoiding Anti-Everything.
• Su Ming refused to split up and decided they would search classrooms and offices connected to the number seven, with Strangle helping.
• Su Ming wrote “where” on the blackboards in every Class Seven classroom, but the fourth stage did not change.
• Farys suggested checking the Bell Tower for a clock and the concept of seven o’clock, and Su Ming agreed.
• As they climbed to the Bell Tower, Farys told Su Ming that its teacher, D%nel, had sacrificed himself, and said it believed Su Ming could create a miracle.

Su Ming and Farys escaped CAAT’s destructive Refugee by solving the Bell Tower clue and entering The World of Creation. Farys believed Su Ming had changed the past by surviving, and the two found themselves in an empty, peaceful grassland.

• Farys warned Su Ming that the descending human was Refugee, one of CAAT’s weapons of mass destruction.
• Refugee self-destructed and unleashed a massive black tentacle that destroyed the fourth stage of The World of Action.
• Su Ming used the Bell Tower clue to teleport into The World of Creation just before the attack reached him.
• Farys celebrated Su Ming’s survival as a change to the past, while Su Ming credited Farys’s warning and identified Refugee as a channel for CAAT’s power.
• Su Ming and Farys discussed Refugee and wondered whether Anti-Everything had been defeated as they surveyed the empty grassland.

Deadpool, Batwoman, and Harley discussed how the Ninth Cosmos might persist even if Cousin changed the past, and whether TOAA had given them a hidden mission. Batwoman said he had a plan to help Slade through the Timeline but would wait for Pal%Ai and her technology.

• The hall transformed into a dark, red-lit Black Metal building as changes in Cousin's past affected their later Time Point.
• Batwoman explained that the Ninth Cosmos might still arise in the distant Future, even if its original cause was prevented.
• Harley told Deadpool that TOAA had made no demands of them, though she suspected it was hiding something.
• Deadpool tried and failed to reason out the Timeline problem, then asked how they could help Slade in the past.
• Batwoman said he had a plan but needed Pal%Ai and her technology first.

Su Ming enjoyed a brief rest in The World of Creation, where Farys had become human and gained conflicting memories of his past. Farys revealed that Su Ming’s disappearance had been delayed by thirty million years, leaving Su Ming determined to deal with CAAT in the present.

• Su Ming reflected on his old wish for a peaceful life while resting beside Farys.
• Farys revealed that his body had changed into that of an ordinary human, and Su Ming connected the transformation to the Destiny Project.
• Farys explained that he remembered both being an alien and having always been human, and Su Ming found his physical abilities comparable to Superman’s.
• Su Ming asked whether the future had changed, and Farys said Su Ming’s disappearance had shifted to the Eighth Firmament, thirty million years later.
• Su Ming concluded that he still needed to find a way to defeat CAAT in the present.

Deathstroke spoke with TOAA in the World of Creation about CAAT and the dangers he had faced on his journey. TOAA explained that CAAT emerged as the stronger force required by a story, leaving Deathstroke to consider his plan to defeat it.

• Deathstroke warned Farys to be cautious near the lake, and Farys went to sort through his memories by the water.
• Deathstroke called for TOAA, whose golden light gathered into an enormous face in the sky.
• Deathstroke demanded an explanation for Anti-Everything and TOBA interfering with his journey, but TOAA said he would not understand.
• Deathstroke challenged TOAA's claim that CAAT had no connection to him, and TOAA explained that CAAT arose like a stronger villain required by a story.
• TOAA said the version Deathstroke met in the House of Ideas had been a separate manifestation, then refused to accept responsibility for its failure to explain.

Su Ming confronted TOAA in The World of Creation and used its earlier words to press it for assistance against CAAT. He argued that TOAA had deliberately guided him there for a purpose, leaving their supposed cooperation unresolved.

• Su Ming reminded TOAA that it had promised to offer more help and intelligence than its avatar in the House of Ideas.
• Su Ming threatened to work with TOBA if TOAA refused to help him deal with CAAT.
• TOAA unleashed its radiance to intimidate Su Ming, but Farys collapsed while Su Ming remained calm.
• Su Ming questioned why the golden man in the Idea House had withheld the third layer of Mystery and proposed that it might be The World of Divine Thought.
• Su Ming reasoned that creation could follow an idea, a drive to create, and then action, and suggested that another path could lead toward destruction.
• Su Ming accused TOAA of deliberately guiding him into The World of Creation and asked whether that meant they were cooperating.

Su Ming confronted TOAA about the value of the paint and learned that it wanted to trade the Force of Creation for his innovative ideas. Before he could learn TOAA’s target, an explosion shook the building, and Batwoman disappeared to scout from higher ground.

• Su Ming showed TOAA his rainbow-colored blood and asked why the Golden Figure had given him such valuable paint.
• TOAA admitted it had the Force of Creation but lacked innovative thinking, and proposed that Su Ming provide ideas in exchange for its power.
• Su Ming asked who TOAA wanted him to target and complained that the sudden appearance of the Refugee had put him in danger.
• Par%Ai brought food, and Deadpool questioned how the Butterfly Effect had changed her appearance.
• An explosion shook the building, and Harley realized Batwoman had gone to find a high vantage point and inspect the damage herself.

Deadpool, Harley, and Par%Ai reached the castle rooftop as Anti-Everything attacked an orbital structure and descended toward the planet. Harley saw that the creature intended to kill every living thing, while Batwoman prepared to act.

• Deadpool complained that Par%Ai's fruit-filled burrito violated the principles of Mexican food, then traveled with Harley to the rooftop.
• Deadpool and Harley noticed that the city and its buildings had transformed into a castle-like landscape.
• An explosion revealed Anti-Everything destroying an orbital structure before diving toward the planet.
• Deadpool suspected Anti-Everything had followed them into the Ninth Cosmos through CAAT and wondered whether Observer's Berth had already been destroyed.
• Harley used Par%Ai's telescope to read Anti-Everything's thoughts and learned it wanted to kill everyone on the planet.
• Batwoman reached for his Bat-utility Belt as Deadpool and Harley watched for his backup plan.