Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Deadpool disguised themselves and reached the castle city, where they waited in a tavern for the Queen’s recruitment notice. The Adjutant reconnected with Su Ming and reported that the battle against CAAT remained stable, while the Avengers were discussing the exposed Energy Transmission Network without planning to interfere.

• Su Ming disguised himself as Bear Grylls, and Deadpool joked about eating Charcoal Princess before they headed to the castle city to apply for work.
• Su Ming and Deadpool entered a tavern, where Deadpool scraped grime off the table while they waited for the Queen’s recruitment proclamation.
• The Adjutant contacted Su Ming and confirmed that CAAT’s attack had been delayed and everything was fine back home.
• The Adjutant reported that Lucifer appeared to direct the battle against Lucifer and Little Rich, but Wanda was contributing the most through Chaos Magic.
• Su Ming reviewed reports showing that the Energy Transmission Network had been exposed and learned that the Avengers were meeting but did not plan to interfere.

Su Ming monitored the Avengers meeting and checked that Dr. Bruce Banner was unharmed after killing and replacing The One Below All. As he anticipated a possible CAAT attack, he authorized the Adjutant to prepare defenses and ordered Elaine to help.

• Su Ming told the Adjutant to have Black Widow stop interfering with the Avengers’ plans and to check Dr. Bruce Banner during the meeting.
• Su Ming explained that he had killed The One Below All and redrawn a replacement, then declined to tell the Adjutant more about the matter.
• Su Ming told the Adjutant not to inform Carol that communications were restored or bring her into the Mystery, keeping her at the S.W.O.R.D. station.
• The Adjutant warned that CAAT might deploy secondary forces, and Su Ming authorized her to mobilize personnel, build equipment, and alter the Timeline as needed.
• Su Ming sensed that CAAT was about to act and told the Adjutant to summon Elaine to help prepare defenses.

Elaine and Franklin faced CAAT as it created a flesh-and-blood Crown that sent hostile humanoids toward the universes. Elaine destroyed most of them with her divine power, but a few slipped into individual universes, leaving the danger unresolved.

• Elaine spoke with the Adjutant about Deathstroke’s concerns while Lucifer and Little Franklin held back CAAT.
• CAAT’s energy surged, and a vast Crown of flesh and blood appeared above the 40K Multiverse.
• Black humanoids poured from the Crown and flew toward the Single Universes, prompting Elaine to use her power to turn them into ordinary humans.
• The changed humanoids perished in the void, but several entered individual universes before Elaine could stop them.
• Elaine noted that CAAT had created both the Crown and its monsters and planned to tell Deathstroke.

Su Ming learned that seven monsters had slipped through the defenses and sent Superboy-Prime to capture one for testing while forces tracked the others. He planned to return to the void after identifying CAAT, then left with Deadpool to meet the Queen as Bell and his brother.

• Su Ming asked Elaine how many monsters had escaped, and she confirmed that seven had gotten through.
• Su Ming ordered the Adjutant to send Superboy-Prime to Earth -11 to find Bliss and Cindy and capture a Shadow Monster for testing.
• Deadpool suggested calling the creatures Black Ghosts, and Elaine warned Su Ming not to leave her and her uncle holding the line indefinitely.
• Su Ming told Elaine he had powerful reinforcements and expected to return within hours after figuring out what CAAT meant.
• After Deadpool worried that CAAT might send minions to stop their investigation, Su Ming paid for their drinks and left with him to meet the Queen, telling him to use the name Bell.

Su Ming and Deadpool answered the Queen’s proclamation seeking a literate hunter and demonstrated their suitability in her throne room. The Queen approved of Su Ming’s brutal display, leaving the brothers poised to take the job of killing Snow White.

• Su Ming and Deadpool found that no one else would answer the Queen’s written proclamation because the townspeople could not read.
• Su Ming and Deadpool presented themselves to the guards as the country’s best hunters and were brought before the Queen.
• Deadpool flattered the Queen by calling her prettier than Snow White, earning her favor.
• Su Ming demonstrated his hunting skills by brutally dismembering a rabbit before the Queen.
• The Queen watched with satisfaction, imagining Snow White meeting a similar fate.

Bliss waited atop Wayne Enterprises Tower for a Single Universe-level monster approaching Earth, while Earth -11's Nightmare crisis threatened to overwhelm the world. Superboy-Prime arrived to help, and the chapter left them discussing Gotham's defenses as they awaited the enemy.

• Bliss learned from Adjutant that a Single Universe-level monster was flying toward Earth, even as Nightmares spread across the planet and Gotham remained protected by Deathstroke's Synthezoid army.
• Superboy-Prime arrived on the rooftop before the enemy and agreed to help Bliss keep the coming fight from causing collateral damage.
• Superboy-Prime told Bliss that Deathstroke had also deployed Mechanical Animal Gods, including their Six Gods Combined form, as a backup plan.
• Bliss praised Deathstroke's preparations, and Superboy-Prime asked about changes in Earth -11's gender politics.
• Bliss explained that the Amazon Council's authority had weakened after its marriage alliance with the Atlanteans, while Wonder Man and Aquawoman's strained relationship made the two powers uneasy.

Bliss, Cindy, and Superboy-Prime prepared to face an invader descending through the atmosphere. Superboy-Prime engaged the Black Ghost in a fierce aerial battle, and the fight continued as the city shook beneath them.

• Cindy joined Bliss and Superboy-Prime on a rooftop and said she expected to observe rather than fight.
• Bliss refused Cindy’s suggestion of letting Arkham inmates out, while Cindy said she could take contracts in other cities.
• Little Superman spotted an enemy breaking through the atmosphere, and Bliss and Cindy moved toward its impact point.
• Superboy-Prime intercepted the Black Ghost and sent it flying back into space with a slap.
• The Black Ghost returned and exchanged repeated blows with Superboy-Prime, its cold strikes and evasive tactics shaking the buildings below.

While the multiverse teams fought creatures falling from the Crown, Deathstroke and Deadpool cooked for a queen to gain her trust. The queen hired the brothers to kill Snow White, revealing that her daughter was really a black-skinned monster.

• Superboy-Prime decided to let Bliss and Cindy join the fight before testing energy attacks on the creatures.
• Elaine kept watch as black creatures continued falling from the Crown and waited for Sheriff to return.
• Deathstroke prepared spicy hand-shredded rabbit while Deadpool speculated about his cousin's sudden interest in cooking.
• The Queen tasted Deathstroke's rabbit and offered the brothers a hunting job with an advance payment.
• The Queen ordered the brothers to kill Snow White, whom she identified as a black-skinned monster, and Deadpool asked how she wanted her to die.

Su Ming and Deadpool waited outside the castle while investigating whether the Queen or anyone else in the world was connected to Crown Above All Things. They concluded that Charcoal Princess and the missing Prince were the main suspects, while Su Ming feared a powerful enemy might appear before they could act.

• Su Ming and Deadpool left the castle after accepting the Queen’s mission and waited in the shade across from its gate.
• Deadpool and Su Ming agreed that the Queen seemed ordinary, and Su Ming reasoned that Black Mouse’s absence could mean Crown Above All Things controlled this world.
• Su Ming recalled testing other possible threats, including the Queen, and concluded that neither she nor the seven Great Lovers had been the hidden obstacle.
• Deadpool named Charcoal Princess and the missing Prince as the remaining suspects, then crawled across the ground while reflecting on his own romantic shortcomings.
• Su Ming considered that Crown Above All Things might send a powerful enemy after them, while Deadpool argued that an unexpected group of Black people would stand out in the world’s setting.

Su Ming and Deadpool watched Charcoal Princess leave the castle and prepared to attack her, while Su Ming’s shock at her appearance turned the mission into a personal grudge. They followed her toward the forest, still unsure whether she was CAAT’s agent.

• Su Ming and Deadpool discussed their plan to adapt as events unfolded and kill anyone who stood in their way.
• Su Ming spotted Charcoal Princess leaving the castle and was stunned by her appearance.
• Deadpool mocked Charcoal Princess’s appearance and compared her to a shadowy, nonhuman figure.
• Su Ming and Deadpool followed Charcoal Princess along the road, intending to attack her somewhere secluded.
• Su Ming explained that the Snow White story had been a cherished childhood memory, making Charcoal Princess’s existence personal to him.
• Deadpool asked whether Charcoal Princess was CAAT’s agent, and Su Ming said they would find out when they attacked.

Su Ming and Deadpool followed Charcoal Princess out of the city, where Deadpool attacked her and she exposed the forest as a film set. Su Ming recognized the illusion as a crude trick and charged the director, ready to learn more about the creature behind it.

• Su Ming and Deadpool followed Charcoal Princess through the fields and into the forest as she picked white wildflowers.
• Deadpool threw a dagger at Charcoal Princess, but she turned around, caught it, and transformed it into a plastic prop.
• Charcoal Princess called out to a director, and the forest disappeared to reveal a green-screen film set and a black-clad crew.
• Deadpool questioned whether they had made it Outside the Wall, and Su Ming said the trick was too crude to be real.
• Su Ming attacked the director with his Lightsaber and accused him of breaking the illusion.

Su Ming and Deadpool confronted the Charcoal Princess, a black-energy entity spreading the Power of Correctness, and her Shadow Prince. Su Ming gained the upper hand against the prince, while Deadpool was left to deal with the princess.

• Deathstroke struck the director, who dissolved into black smoke, and the Charcoal Princess admitted she had been hiding her identity.
• Deadpool suggested that he and Su Ming should have played the Grimm Brothers instead of Hunters.
• Su Ming declared that the Charcoal Princess's meme could not exist in his Minecraft and attacked her.
• A Shadow Prince and his Dark Horse appeared, and the prince blocked Su Ming's strike.
• Su Ming destroyed the Dark Horse with Concept Power and pressed his attack, quickly overpowering the prince.

Su Ming split the fight, leaving Deadpool to handle the Charcoal Princess while Clark defeated another Black Mud invader. Deadpool teleported himself and the wounded Charcoal Princess to Earth -11, where Cindy severed her arm and revealed that her invincibility was not absolute.

• Su Ming drove the Asphalt Prince away from the Charcoal Princess so he and Deadpool could fight separate opponents.
• Deadpool taunted the Charcoal Princess until she punched through his chest, then used her distraction to teleport them both away with his Teleportation Belt.
• Clark defeated a Black Mud invader by repeatedly freezing and heating it before tearing its body apart.
• Deadpool and the Charcoal Princess appeared beside Cindy and Bliss on Earth -11, where Cindy cut off the Charcoal Princess's arm.
• The Charcoal Princess protested that she was invincible, and Deadpool explained that her supposed correctness was not absolute in this dark DC Universe.

Deadpool brought the weakened Charcoal Princess to Earth -11, where Superboy-Prime took her on. Meanwhile, Su Ming exploited the Asphalt Prince’s desperation to reach his beloved and left him near defeat.

• Deadpool explained that the Charcoal Princess had lost much of her power on Earth -11 and urged Superboy-Prime to fight her.
• Superboy-Prime accepted the challenge and attacked the Charcoal Princess with his heat vision as she charged at him.
• Bliss withdrew from the scene after Deadpool appeared.
• Su Ming identified the Asphalt Prince’s concepts and taunted him while cutting into him.
• The Asphalt Prince repeatedly tried to return to the Charcoal Princess, allowing Su Ming to land more blows until he was badly wounded and close to defeat.

Su Ming tortured the Asphalt Prince while the Adjutant reported that the escaped black ghosts had been handled. After hearing that Thanos was living in seclusion, Su Ming asked to watch him farming for amusement.

• Su Ming recalled Thanos and Thane as he stabbed the crawling Asphalt Prince with a Lightsaber.
• The Adjutant told Su Ming that all the escaped black ghosts had been dealt with and Batwoman of Earth-0 had captured one alive.
• Su Ming joked with the Adjutant about the captured black ghost and let Strangle taste pieces of the Asphalt Prince.
• The Asphalt Prince kept crawling toward the Charcoal Princess despite the concepts weighing him down, and Su Ming stepped on his head.
• The Adjutant prepared a livestream of Thanos on his secluded planet, where surveillance equipment tracked his daily life.

Thanos lived quietly as a farmer on an isolated planet until a damaged Casdit spacecraft crashed nearby. He saved its surviving crew and invited them to his home, leaving them fearful but with a promise to provide food, water, and repairs.

• Thanos noticed strange energy lines spanning the stars but set aside his curiosity to focus on his peaceful farming life.
• A damaged spacecraft emerged from a jump above Thanos's fields and crashed in the valley behind his cottage.
• Thanos recognized the vessel as Casdit and found its surviving crew fleeing the burning wreck, terrified to see him.
• Thanos ordered the crew away, extinguished the fire with a blast of air, and stabilized the Jump Drive before it could explode.
• Thanos offered the Survivors food and water and promised to help repair their spacecraft, while they reluctantly followed him.

Su Ming watched Thanos unexpectedly rescue stranded Aliens instead of killing them, then abandoned his plan to interfere and settled in to watch a cooking show while tormenting Asphalt Prince. The chapter left Su Ming intrigued by a recipe for an alien species he recognized as intelligent.

• Su Ming and Adjutant discussed Thanos’s unusual change in attitude after he helped the stranded Aliens and planned to feed them on his farm.
• Su Ming rejected Adjutant’s suggestion to send troops to kill the Aliens, since they had not provoked him and he had already completed his monthly good deed.
• Su Ming stopped watching Thanos and resumed torturing Asphalt Prince, while Strangle happily fed on the captive and wondered whether Charcoal Princess would taste good.
• Adjutant played a cosmic cooking show featuring a leap-ripened alien head, and Su Ming recognized the cooked creature as an intelligent species he had encountered alive before.

Little Superman repeatedly battered Charcoal Princess, whose rapid healing made the fight one-sided and seemingly endless. Deadpool proposed that her remaining power came from her popularity with unseen viewers, and Batwoman’s disappearance suggested the audience was already losing interest.

• Little Superman repeatedly blasted Charcoal Princess into the sea and through a lighthouse, but she healed completely each time.
• Cindy reasoned that Charcoal Princess still had a hidden concept supporting her and that destroying it could kill her permanently.
• Deadpool distracted Cindy and Clark with jokes before suggesting that Charcoal Princess’s remaining concept was popularity sustained by viewers.
• Deadpool said cutting away from the fight would make viewers lose interest, and he pointed out that Batwoman had vanished.
• Little Superman joined the conversation and noticed that Charcoal Princess seemed weaker as the audience’s attention faded.

Cindy and Deadpool helped Superboy-Prime defeat the Charcoal Princess by exploiting idealism and blind-fighting, while Su Ming waited with the captured Asphalt Prince. Deadpool returned with the Princess’s head and remembered his plan to repay his livestream viewers by launching a corpse into space.

• Cindy explained that they could close their eyes to make the unseen part of the story effectively not exist, and Deadpool agreed with the tactic.
• Superboy-Prime used his blind-fighting skills to help defeat the Charcoal Princess after Deadpool lured her into a trap.
• Deadpool returned to Su Ming carrying the Charcoal Princess’s head and corpse, and asked for a reward.
• Su Ming offered Deadpool five hundred extra for the head, then examined the corpse while the Asphalt Prince mourned the Princess.
• Deathstroke reminded Deadpool that he had planned to wrap a corpse around a Rocket and launch it into space, and Deadpool decided to use the Charcoal Princess’s corpse as a gift for his livestream viewers.

Deathstroke and Deadpool tied Charcoal Princess's corpse to a rocket and launched it toward Pluto as a cruel spectacle for Asphalt Prince. The rocket was still climbing while Deathstroke forced Prince to stay alive and watch its intended destination.

• Deathstroke created a giant rocket and told Asphalt Prince he would use Charcoal Princess's corpse as fireworks.
• Deadpool found that Charcoal Princess had no organs, then used part of his own intestine and elastic from his uniform to tie her corpse to the rocket.
• Deathstroke secured the corpse to the rocket with The Force and authorized its launch after Deadpool's countdown.
• The rocket lifted off and burned Deadpool, who healed and complained to Deathstroke about the exhaust.
• Deathstroke told Deadpool the rocket was aimed at Pluto, then forced Asphalt Prince to look up and urged him to stay alive until the corpse exploded.