Chapter Summaries

Deathstroke and Monark discovered a Savage Land Horde worshipping a giant statue of Deadpool, who explained that he had taught the tribe after they mistook his fossilized excrement for a god. After Deathstroke hired Wade, Wade offered to ask his followers for information about the Spider Totem.

• Monark and Deathstroke found a developed Horde gathered around a giant statue of Deadpool.
• Deadpool appeared, and Deathstroke stabbed him while demanding an explanation.
• Wade said he had taught the tribe after finding them worshipping his fossilized poop, and Deathstroke connected their faith to the Nuwali and the Savage Land.
• Deadpool gave Deathstroke the Horde's Destiny, and Deathstroke paid him a twenty-thousand-dollar deposit to work for him.
• Deathstroke refused Wade's suggestion to visit Peter, saying he did not want to alert the Spider Totem, so Wade went to question his followers.

Su Ming and his team arrived at Wade’s tribe during a ceremony honoring him as the Immortal God, and Wade’s unveiled face made the villagers vomit. After they recovered, the villagers revealed that they knew where a spider statue was, though a terrifying monster guarded the area.

• Wade joined the statue ceremony, removed his mask, and horrified the villagers with his appearance.
• Wade ordered the villagers killed, but Su Ming sent his undead army to help them recover and kept them alive.
• Wade gave a speech asking the villagers to find a tribe that worshipped spiders, and they discussed places where they had seen a Spider Totem.
• Several villagers revived the High Priest, who told Wade he knew where the spider statue was but warned that a powerful monster guarded it.
• Wade drew his twin blades and boasted that he would defeat the monster.

Deadpool was swallowed by Chtylok, prompting Su Ming to explain the monster’s origins and strength while he searched for a way to deal with it. He teleported to Earth-0 to consult a professional and found the world consumed by violence after Luthor had distributed weapons and technology to the public.

• Chtylok swallowed Deadpool, and Su Ming reassured Namora that Wade could not die and would eventually escape through the monster’s intestinal tract.
• Su Ming identified the creature as Chtylok, a powerful god-created hybrid that stole test subjects and could tear open space to travel between places.
• Su Ming admitted he did not know Chtylok’s weakness and told the others to hide while he went to consult a professional.
• Su Ming teleported to Earth-0, where Luthor’s Year of the Villain plan had spread weapons and advanced technology among ordinary people.
• Su Ming saw that Earth-0 had become a battlefield, with civilians using Luthor’s technology to attack and kill one another.

Su Ming went to Colonel Sanders for expert advice on preparing Chtylok, a powerful chicken-cow god, as food for Strangle. Barry caught up with him and described the Justice League’s worsening crisis, while Su Ming said he would remain focused on his own plans for now.

• Su Ming traveled to Gardner County to seek Colonel Sanders’s expertise on chickens and cows before fighting Chtylok.
• Barry found Su Ming and reported that Luthor and the Batman Who Laughs had returned and were recruiting Deathstrokes from other universes.
• Barry listed the Justice League’s troubles, and Su Ming told him to hold society together for another month or two while he pursued his own plan.
• Su Ming took Barry into Colonel Sanders’s silent factory and explained that he wanted advice on killing Chtylok without wasting its nutrients and genes.
• Barry realized Su Ming intended to turn the god into food for Strangle and admitted he could not understand the plan.

Su Ming and Barry visited Colonel Sanders to ask for help with Su Ming’s pet and its need to eat Chtylok. After finding Sanders despondent because the collapse of the universe’s supply chains had stopped his fried-chicken business, Su Ming tried to draw him out by asking about his past, and Sanders began recalling what happened to his shop in 1940.

• Su Ming brought Barry to Colonel Sanders’ villa and warned him to be careful while studying the Still Force.
• Barry briefly stopped the chaos in town, then returned with a bottle of wine and accompanied Su Ming into Sanders’ garden.
• Sanders rejected the visitors and broke down over the loss of his chicken supplies and fast-food business.
• Su Ming introduced himself, gave Sanders strong liquor, and learned that Sanders’ real name was Harland.
• Su Ming asked Harland what had happened to his shop in 1940, and Harland began to remember.

Su Ming revived Colonel Sanders by reminding him of his rise from ruin, and the energized colonel agreed to help the Justice League defeat Chtylok. He set off to hunt the chicken-headed, cow-bodied monster and turn it into dinner.

• Su Ming recalled Colonel Sanders's collapse and comeback, then recognized that the colonel had lived the same origin story in the DC Universe.
• Colonel Sanders regained his confidence, struck bodybuilding poses, and declared that he would keep trying until he solved the Justice League's problems.
• Barry enthusiastically helped Colonel Sanders dress, while Su Ming asked the colonel for help killing Chtylok.
• Su Ming described Chtylok's chicken head, cow body, flight, strength, divine power, and Magic Resistance.
• Colonel Sanders drew a cleaver and knife sharpener and asked where Chtylok was so he could prepare it as an extra dish.

Su Ming, Deathstroke, and Barry visited Sanders's slaughterhouse, where he explained how its machinery used chickens' visual instincts to guide them to their deaths. Sanders proposed applying the same weaknesses to the Chtylok, leaving Su Ming to realize that Deadpool's red costume had made him an easy target.

• Barry agreed to tour Sanders's factory and carried Sanders and Deathstroke there in Bullet Time.
• Sanders offered to teach Barry about fast-food business and chicken slaughter, while Deathstroke pointed out that they had no chickens to process.
• Sanders demonstrated the slaughter machine and explained that flashing red lights lured chickens onto its conveyor belt.
• Sanders explained that chickens were nearsighted and instinctively attacked red objects, and Su Ming connected that weakness to the Chtylok eating Deadpool in his red uniform.

Su Ming learned Chtylok’s weaknesses from Colonel Sanders and devised a plan to exploit the monster’s chicken half. After Su Ming left, Sanders and Barry realized his parting suggestion pointed to a new source of business: French fries made from potatoes.

• Sanders explained that Chtylok could be lured by red objects and overwhelmed with intense light that would cloud its judgment.
• Sanders described how Chtylok’s chicken wings limited its reach, and Su Ming concluded that its chicken half was the key weakness.
• Sanders said Chtylok’s cow half was secondary because the monster could not survive without its chicken head.
• Su Ming thanked Sanders, said side dishes could save a business, and vanished in a flash of white light.
• Barry realized Su Ming had suggested transporting potatoes from Parallel Universes to supply KFC with French fries.
• Sanders took Barry to his villa to teach him his secret French-fry recipe and discuss cooperation.

After Deadpool escaped the Chtylok’s stomach, Su Ming learned that Wade could hear audiences in the DC Universe but could not safely enter it. Su Ming abandoned plans to use him there and prepared to explain a new strategy for dealing with the Chtylok.

• Wade complained that Su Ming had left him in the monster’s stomach, then described Barry being grabbed by Wonder Woman and an old man after Su Ming departed.
• Su Ming asked whether Wade could enter the DC Universe, but Wade said he would die within hours because Thanos’s curse and Death’s favor would stop working there.
• Su Ming considered ways to keep Wade alive in DC but decided the risky process was not worthwhile.
• Su Ming told Wade that a professional had helped him find a way to deal with the Chtylok and said they would carry out the plan together.
• Su Ming equipped Wade with a flashlight, a Flashbang, candles, and an Illumination Spell scroll.

Deadpool agreed to lure the Chtylok into Su Ming and Strangle’s trap in exchange for extra money, then entered its cave and used explosives and a flashbang to provoke it. The flashbang blinded Deadpool as well, leaving him helpless on the ground while the Chtylok approached.

• Deadpool reluctantly agreed to act as bait after Su Ming promised to pay him more, and Strangle assured him it would not eat him.
• Deadpool entered the Chtylok’s cavern while it slept and planted five kilograms of C4 in its natural passageway.
• The explosion woke the Chtylok and caused it to mistake its pain for diarrhea before it spotted Deadpool.
• Deadpool dodged the Chtylok’s peck, threw a flashbang, and ran toward the cave entrance as the monster thrashed blindly.
• The flashbang also blinded Deadpool through his old mask, and the Chtylok regained its sight and advanced toward him.

After Deadpool was swallowed by Chtylok again, Deathstroke and his allies used red-dyed undead to lure the creature toward their trap. Chtylok began devouring the dancing Savages and moved out of its cave.

• Chtylok swallowed Deadpool in one peck, and Deathstroke complained that Wade was too slow and had wasted their effort.
• Monark and Kaecilius discussed Wade’s failure while Su Ming asked about Little Qiang and ordered Kaecilius to retrieve the village’s red dye.
• Kaecilius returned with barrels of dye, and Su Ming had hundreds of undead cover themselves in red dye and attach lit candles to their heads.
• Su Ming controlled the undead as they danced in a synchronized line from the cave toward the trap.
• Chtylok was startled by the strange display but began swallowing the red Savages, moving farther out of its cave as it ate.

Su Ming changed the plan and lured Chtylok into eating thousands of zombies until it collapsed and died. Strangle began consuming the carcass, while Deadpool emerged alive from its stomach and recovered.

• Su Ming called Monark back and replaced the sealing plan with a scheme to exploit Chtylok’s urge to attack red things.
• Su Ming used bloodied zombies and Cloak’s flashlight to lure Chtylok around a looping path, feeding it until it died after two days.
• Su Ming hacked off Chtylok’s head to ensure it was dead, and Strangle spread over the corpse to devour it.
• Strangle pulled the savage corpses and Deadpool from Chtylok’s stomach before focusing on the monster’s flesh.
• Deadpool recovered, explained that the crowded stomach had kept him from escaping, and put on a new set of clothes.

Su Ming waited for Strangle to digest Chtylok and chatted with Wade about the pony backpack from his forgotten first girlfriend. Using the Time Stone, Su Ming revealed that her name was Carmelita and that Wade had met her again, leaving Wade to reflect on his tangled relationships and past.

• Su Ming asked Wade about the pony backpack, and Wade said his damaged memory left him remembering only that his first girlfriend was Black and had been kind to him.
• Su Ming teased Wade about the backpack and guessed that the girlfriend might have been named Polly.
• Su Ming used the Time Stone to reveal that Wade's first girlfriend had been named Carmelita and that they met again after elementary school.
• Wade recalled trying to give Inez a house as a wedding present, and Su Ming pointed out how quickly their marriage ended.
• Wade explained that he had left Vanessa after his disfigurement, married Inez, and later returned to Vanessa, while Su Ming recounted how Wade and Inez first met after she attacked Spider-Man.

Su Ming told Deadpool that he had a daughter, Ellie, with Carmelita, whose illness left the girl at risk of becoming an orphan. Deadpool chose to leave and find out what to do, while Su Ming counted the unpaid balance as child support and stayed behind.

• Su Ming told Deadpool that he had fathered Ellie with Carmelita after a drunken night and had forgotten about her.
• Su Ming explained that Carmelita had raised Ellie alone, that Ellie was six or seven, and that her mother was seriously ill.
• Deadpool broke down over his absent daughter and shot himself beneath the chin.
• Su Ming pieced Deadpool's head back together, and Wade revived within five minutes.
• Deadpool asked Su Ming what he should do, then demanded his remaining payment so he could leave.
• Su Ming called the unpaid balance child support, and Deadpool vanished after conceding, "You win."

After Strangle completed its evolution by devouring Chtylok and using the Black Sword’s genes, Su Ming learned it had gained gigantification, fire immunity, and improved bioelectric abilities. He and Monark still had not found the Spider Totem, and Su Ming suspected Little Qiang had sent them after Chtylok to protect the village; he decided the village would become Kamar-Taj’s outpost and named it That Village.

• Strangle returned to Su Ming after completing its evolution, and he went alone to Chtylok’s cave to examine its gains.
• Strangle gained the ability to gigantify Su Ming, resist fire in its natural form, and generate and control powerful electrical currents.
• Su Ming promised to help Strangle seek immunity to sonic waves and vibrations, while considering how its electricity might power or control technology.
• Monark entered the cave and asked whether Strangle had evolved and whether they had found the Spider Totem.
• Su Ming told Monark that Chtylok’s memories held no sign of the Spider Totem and said Little Qiang might have deceived them to eliminate a threat to the village.
• Su Ming decided to spare the villagers, use their settlement as Kamar-Taj’s outpost, and name it That Village.

Su Ming planned to explore the underground passage while Monark stayed behind to help establish a Kamar-Taj outpost in That Village. In his own time, Wade sought advice from Blind Al about his newly discovered daughter and left to find someone who could raise her safely.

• Su Ming agreed to enter the crack alone after Monark said he suspected the Spider Totem was underground, and told Monark to seal the passage behind him.
• Su Ming asked Monark to organize construction of a Sanctum Sanctorum in That Village and considered whether Faltine's Teleportation could speed travel there.
• Wade hid at Blind Al's apartment, distressed to learn that Ellie would soon be left without her dying mother.
• Wade explained that his enemies made it unsafe to raise Ellie himself, and Blind Al suggested he find someone else to care for her.
• Wade thanked Blind Al, gathered two rocket launchers, and left to find someone to raise Ellie.

Deadpool visited Taskmaster to hire him for a babysitting job, but Taskmaster refused. Deadpool stayed on the rooftop, insisting he was too ill to get up unless Taskmaster agreed.

• Deadpool rode with A'Du to Queens and told him to drive to Taskmaster's address.
• A'Du threw a bone fragment from Deadpool's trunk into a pile of dog shit, and Deadpool praised his handling of Cousin's death.
• Deadpool found Taskmaster teaching boxing on a rooftop, and the students scattered when Deadpool announced a police inspection.
• Deadpool offered Taskmaster money to help babysit, but Taskmaster refused.
• Deadpool rolled around on the rooftop and demanded that Taskmaster imitate a nanny, while Taskmaster packed his things to leave.

Deadpool sought Taskmaster’s help after Deathstroke warned him that his daughter might be left an orphan, but their fight ended with Taskmaster cutting off Deadpool’s head. After hearing the story, Taskmaster helped Deadpool realize Deathstroke had taken his Little Qiang Village, which had become the Antarctic Sanctum Sanctorum.

• Deadpool attacked Taskmaster and demanded his help, and they exchanged gunfire before resuming their fight with swords.
• Deadpool accidentally flashed himself with a grenade, allowing Taskmaster to cut off his head and take him to a safehouse.
• Taskmaster questioned Deathstroke’s reason for warning Deadpool about his daughter, and Deadpool recalled their time in the Savage Land.
• Taskmaster reattached Deadpool’s head, and Deadpool checked that his chastity was intact.
• Deadpool realized Deathstroke had taken his Little Qiang Village, and Taskmaster identified it as the Antarctic Sanctum Sanctorum.

Wade learned that his daughter might soon be taken into social services, so he rushed to find her while trying to get Professor X’s help. After Negasonic Teenage Warhead ignored his messages, Wade went to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters but Colossus threw him out for breaking his promise to join the X-Men.

• Anthony reminded Wade that his exposed identity made it unsafe to seek help from him and warned that social services might take Wade’s daughter if her mother died.
• Wade left to find his daughter, while Anthony destroyed the Safehouse and erased its traces.
• Wade tried to persuade Negasonic Teenage Warhead to help him contact Professor X, but she brushed him off after asking for money.
• Wade asked A'Du to drive him to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, hoping to meet Professor X directly.
• Colossus threw Wade out of the school and rebuked him for missing their agreed meeting after Vanessa’s rescue.

Deadpool found a way into Xavier's School by provoking Wolverine into a brutal fight, then asked Negasonic Teenage Warhead to help him find Professor X so he could search for his child. He woke inside the school and waited for her to fetch the professor.

• Colossus refused to let Deadpool into Xavier's School, leaving him outside with no plan to find help for his child.
• Wolverine arrived, and Deadpool stabbed him to provoke a fight that left both of them reduced to piles of flesh and bones.
• A'Du alerted the school, and Cyclops had Deadpool and Wolverine brought inside while paying the taxi driver to keep quiet.
• Deadpool woke in the school and asked Negasonic Teenage Warhead to find Professor X.
• Negasonic Teenage Warhead agreed to fetch the professor and left Deadpool waiting in his room.