Chapter Summaries

Earth-616 heroes arrived as Puppet Hulk attacked Loki, and Thor Odinson reunited with the god of time. The gathering was interrupted when Bruce Banner heard a demonic whisper.

• A blue lightning strike from another Thor sent Puppet Hulk crashing into the ruins of time before the Earth-616 heroes arrived.
• Franklin explained that Puppet Hulk served the One-Below-All and that Mephisto wanted the throne of time.
• Wanda recognized Mephisto from her universe, and Tony Stark realized Doctor Strange and Captain Marvel had failed to stop him.
• Loki told Thor Odinson that neither of them had to be defined by fate or their titles, and Odinson embraced him.
• Bruce Banner heard a demonic whisper and warned the other heroes.

The One-Below-All corrupted Bruce Banner, transforming him into a Destruction Hulk who joined the puppet Hulk and overwhelmed the heroes. With Mephisto declaring the game had begun, the battered heroes faced the two Hulks and wondered how to fight back.

• The One-Below-All whispered to Bruce Banner, exploiting his doubts and urging him to unleash Hulk.
• Thor tried to sever the psychic link with his Golden Battle Axe, but Banner transformed into Destruction Hulk and stopped the blow.
• Wanda Maximoff, Captain Britain Brian, and Doctor Doom failed to block Destruction Hulk’s punch, and he struck Earth-616’s Thor Odinson into the ruins.
• Destruction Hulk stood beside the puppet Hulk as Mephisto recovered, admired the pair, and announced that the game had truly begun.
• Earth-616’s Thor Odinson rose injured and asked his teammates what they should do next.

Thor fought the Destroyer Hulk while Mister Fantastic analyzed its power, and Loki suggested Thor could use the energy sustaining it. Thor began draining Hulk with his Law of Devouring and broke through to the Megaverse Level.

• Spider-Man and Black Panther stepped back as Mister Fantastic began analyzing the Destroyer Hulk, while Thor, Scarlet Witch, and Doctor Doom attacked it together.
• Red Label Phoenix Jean Grey transformed and launched Mephisto away, leaving Thor to face the Destroyer Hulk.
• Loki advised Thor to consider using other sources of energy, and Thor realized he could drain Hulk's power.
• Franklin trapped the puppet Hulk in a repeating loop of space, and Captain Britain Brian Braddock offered to sever Hulk's connection to its power source.
• Thor activated his Law of Devouring and absorbed the destructive energy around Hulk, breaking through to the Megaverse Level.

Thor reached Megaverse Level and joined Franklin in helping Jean fight Mephisto, while OBA-powered Hulk overwhelmed the heroes on another battlefield. Reed and Brian severed Hulk’s connection to the Green Door, allowing Doom and Wanda to subdue him and restore Bruce Banner.

• Thor deliberately compressed his power at the threshold of Megaverse Level, drained the puppet Hulk of OBA’s power, and erased Dr. Banner from the ruins of time.
• Thor and Franklin joined Jean in beating Mephisto, trapping him with the Phoenix Force and altered reality.
• OBA-powered Hulk crushed Odinson’s axe and knocked him unconscious, then broke through Doom’s and Wanda’s defenses.
• Reed discovered Hulk’s connection to the Green Door, and Brian severed it with the Sword in the Stone.
• Doom and Wanda subdued the weakened Hulk as Bruce Banner regained control, then Wanda told him to ask Odinson whether he had hurt anyone.

Odinson forgave Banner, and the heroes defeated Mephisto after cutting him off from the other Hell Dimensions, while Thor absorbed the scattered power and reached Mid Megaverse Level. Loki restored the timelines and warned that Banner still carried the Green Door to OBA; as the heroes prepared to leave, Wanda asked Thor whether he wielded Chaos Magic.

• Odinson woke, embraced Banner, and told him the rampage had not been his fault.
• Doom, Wanda, and Odinson joined Thor, Franklin, and Phoenix in attacking Mephisto, while Brian used the Sword in the Stone to sever Mephisto's links to other dimensions.
• Jean bound Mephisto and cut off his energy exchange, allowing Thor to devour the scattered Hell-origin power and rise to Mid Megaverse Level.
• Thor struck Mephisto down, and Loki restored order to the timelines before warning Banner that OBA could still tempt him through the Green Door.
• Loki told the heroes that the Green Door was inside Banner and that he could seal it temporarily, while Reed began considering ways to contain him.
• Wanda asked Loki how to master Chaos Magic, and Loki redirected her question to Thor, prompting her to ask whether he wielded Chaos Magic too.

Thor revealed that he wielded both Chaos Magic and the Phoenix Force, then helped Wanda sever her connection to Chthon and stabilize her power. The Queen of Nevers appeared to investigate Thor, whose timeline she said was blank and outside the existing narrative.

• Thor displayed Chaos Magic and the Phoenix Force, astonishing the gathered heroes, while the Odinson claimed he was stronger than Thor for now.
• Thor agreed to help Wanda master her power in exchange for her help in the future.
• Thor used the laws of Cause and Effect and Existence to trace Wanda's connection to Chthon, then severed it with the Law of Oblivion.
• Thor stabilized Wanda's Chaos Magic and developed it into a true Origin of Chaos.
• The Queen of Nevers appeared and told Thor that his story belonged to no existing narrative and that his line in the multiverse's narrative network was blank.

The Queen of Nevers freed Wanda Maximoff from her predestined tragedies, transforming her Chaos Magic and raising her power to Omniverse Level. She also gave Thor a Shard of Possibility, and Wanda agreed to join him at Knowhere.

• The Queen of Nevers rewrote Wanda Maximoff’s fate across every multiverse, making Earth-616 Wanda a living source of Chaos at Omniverse Level.
• The Queen of Nevers gave Thor a Shard of Possibility that could make the impossible possible and let him create an unobservable universe.
• The Queen of Nevers explained that she was investing in Thor because he could turn blank impossibilities into possibilities, then vanished.
• Reed identified the Queen of Nevers as a top-tier conceptual entity, and Tony, Peter, and Doom reacted to Thor receiving the shard.
• Wanda thanked Thor for freeing her from Chthon and agreed to leave Earth-616 to help him at Knowhere.

After the heroes of 616 departed, Thor learned that Loki had become the time anchor for every universe’s timelines and could not leave his post. Thor offered Loki an Eternity Crystal as a substitute, but Loki said he would need hundreds; Thor then left with Franklin, Wanda, and Jean, while Loki watched over the timelines and hoped Thor would soon reach his level.

• The heroes of 616 boarded Reed's ship and left the ruins of time, leaving Thor, Franklin, Loki, Wanda, and Jean behind.
• Thor asked how Loki had reached the Omniverse Level, and Loki explained that he had gathered the timelines severed by the Beyonders’ destruction of universes.
• Loki told Thor that he feared no one at the end of time but was bound there as the time anchor stabilizing every universe’s timelines.
• Thor offered Loki Immortus the Immortal's Eternity Crystal, but Loki said it could hold only some timelines and that he would need a few hundred crystals to replace himself.
• Thor took Franklin, Wanda, and Jean back with him after Loki assured him that Knowhere was outside the timelines’ reach.
• Loki remained on his golden throne watching the timelines and hoped Thor would reach the Omniverse Level before the coming day.