Chapter Summaries

The Vampire elders debated whether and how the Blood Clan Council could cooperate with Superman, while arguing over rumors about his private life. Their discussion ended when Superman crashed into their meeting and asked whether they had been talking about him.

• Elena repeated rumors about Superman's sexual exploits, but Stefan used calculations to argue that they were impossible.
• The senior Vampire elder explained the Council's alliance with the White House and asked what interests might make Superman cooperate with them.
• Stefan proposed showing Superman the Blood Clan's goodwill or exploiting his supposed moral principles by revealing the president's conspiracy.
• Elena suggested seducing Superman, but Stefan insulted her appearance and dismissed her plan.
• Superman crashed through the ceiling and asked the elders whether they had been discussing him.

Superman forced the vampire elders to reveal their dealings with the President, confirming his suspicion that the President was Conqueror Kang. Kang met with Mister Sinister and the Black Queen, then decided Superman was an unstable threat he needed to eliminate.

• Superman crashed into the vampires’ meeting and demanded an honest account of their transaction with the President.
• A vampire elder revealed the Blood Clan Council’s private contact with the White House, and Superman confirmed that the President was Conqueror Kang.
• The President dismissed Stillman, mocked his weakness, and planned to manipulate politicians into triggering World War III.
• Mister Sinister and the Black Queen arrived to meet Kang, and the three discussed cooperating despite their hostility.
• Kang reflected on the timeline’s differences and decided to eliminate Superman.

Conqueror Kang tried to recruit Mister Sinister and the Black Queen into his alliance against Superman by offering them Apocalypse, a Mutant gene bank, and souls for Selene’s Ascension Ritual. When Superman approached the White House, Kang trapped the pair and forced them to choose cooperation, leaving them to face Superman’s imminent arrival.

• Conqueror Kang appealed to Mister Sinister’s interest in Mutant genes and the Black Queen’s desire to complete her Ascension Ritual to recruit them against Superman.
• Mister Sinister and the Black Queen demanded greater rewards, with Mister Sinister asking Kang to include his time-travel machine in the deal.
• Conqueror Kang warned them that Superman was nearing the White House and offered the Mutant gene bank and suitable souls if they joined him.
• The Black Queen tried to escape through a magical portal, but Conqueror Kang’s Phase Space Lockdown stopped her, and his projection evaded her fireball.
• The Black Queen agreed to cooperate with Conqueror Kang, and Mister Sinister sensed Superman arriving at the White House.

Luke stormed into the White House to find Conqueror Kang, claiming he had come to rescue the President. Kang appeared only as a projection and questioned where Superman came from, while Luke continued searching for him.

• Luke landed on the White House lawn, where security chief Jonathan and armed personnel surrounded him but hesitated to attack.
• Luke demanded to see the President, then sliced through the Oval Office with Heat Vision when Jonathan blocked his way.
• Jonathan fired at Luke, but the bullets had no effect; Luke disarmed him and claimed S.H.I.E.L.D. intelligence showed the President had been kidnapped.
• Luke charged through the White House, causing severe destruction, while Jonathan ordered the Pentagon to be contacted and the National Guard deployed.
• Conqueror Kang appeared as a projection and said he could not find Superman in the histories and timelines he had examined.
• Luke claimed he had come from the Land of Light in the M78 Nebula to save Earth.

Luke told Conqueror Kang a fabricated story about his origins, then confronted him amid the burning White House. He uncovered Mister Sinister’s hiding place and swiftly overwhelmed him, while Jonathan watched from outside.

• Luke claimed that the Land of Light had been destroyed by Belial and that he had grown up among the Saiyans before coming to Earth.
• Luke mocked Conqueror Kang’s justifications and said schemers would eventually be exposed.
• Luke detected Mister Sinister by his accelerated heartbeat and blasted him through a wall and onto the White House lawn.
• Mister Sinister tried telekinesis and mental control against Luke, but Luke resisted and struck him down.
• Jonathan watched the fight from outside the White House and realized how powerful Luke was.

Superman overwhelmed Mister Sinister and destroyed much of the White House complex while expanding his Bio-Force Field to expose the hidden attackers. The Black Queen began summoning Chthon, leaving a crack in space as dark energy spilled into the area.

• Mister Sinister tried to attack Superman with a psychic assault and a forehead beam, but Superman resisted and avoided the strike.
• Mister Sinister escaped Superman’s stomp through Phase-Space Teleportation Technology, prompting Superman to tell Jonathan to retreat.
• Superman expanded his Bio-Force Field across the White House and nearby streets, tearing apart the building and lifting its debris into the air.
• Superman’s attack exposed Mister Sinister, the Black Queen, and Conqueror Kang, while Mister Sinister’s Death Ray failed to stop Superman’s crimson beams.
• The Black Queen weakened as she summoned a Dimensional Demon God, opening a crack in space and releasing dark energy that Superman identified as Nethergod Chthon.

The Black Queen summoned Chthon to fight Superman, but Luke’s attack on the rift drew Chthon’s true body into the sky. Luke proposed negotiating with the Nethergod as Selene’s life force rapidly drained away.

• The Black Queen summoned Chthon’s projection and asked Mister Sinister whether it could defeat Superman.
• Chthon’s Chaos Magic turned rubble into a swarm of creatures that surrounded Luke, but he blasted through them and struck the rift with a powerful punch.
• Chthon’s true body pushed through the widening rift and recognized the aura of the Sorcerer Supreme on Luke.
• The Black Queen realized the summoning had brought Chthon’s true body instead of a projection, and the cost rapidly drained her life force.
• Luke told Chthon he wanted to discuss terms.

Luke fought off Chthon’s attacks while the demon god tried to recruit him as the Chaos Dimension’s spokesperson. Luke rejected Chthon’s offer, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Chthon attacked Luke with demonic flames, but Luke blocked them with the Shields of the Seraphim.
• Luke used Ikonn’s Form to create solid Superman clones that destroyed Chthon’s flame tentacles with Heat Vision.
• Chthon realized Luke had no dimensional contract and offered him the role of Chaos Dimension spokesperson, promising power to twist reality and spacetime.
• Luke considered the costs of the Phoenix Force, Chaos Power, and Fae Force, then refused Chthon’s offer.

Luke rejected Chthon’s offer to become the spokesperson of Chaos Magic and summoned Cyttorak’s power instead. He bound Chthon and punched him back into the Chaos Dimension, then prepared to deal with any remaining threats.

• Chthon tried to persuade Luke to accept Chaos Power, but Luke questioned the hidden price and refused.
• Luke burned the contract Chthon offered and used a temporary contract to summon Cyttorak.
• Luke drew on the Crimson Cosmos’s power, resisted its mental influence, and bound Chthon with crimson chains.
• Luke struck Chthon with a magically enhanced punch that sent him back into the Chaos Dimension.
• Luke landed on the ground and prepared to use Heat Vision to finish off any remaining opponents.

Luke defeated Chthon’s allies and killed Conqueror Kang in the White House command shelter, but an activated teleportation platform sent him to Earth-199999 in 2018. He arrived just as Nick Fury and Commander Hill turned to ash.

• Luke knocked out the Black Queen and killed Mister Sinister after Mister Sinister rejected his offer and attacked him.
• Luke found Conqueror Kang in the White House’s underground command center and killed him before he could explain himself.
• Luke stepped onto a platform as its countdown reached zero, and blue light transported him away.
• Luke appeared on Earth-199999 in 2018 as Nick Fury and Commander Hill disintegrated; Nick Fury vanished before finishing his cry.

Howard Stark and Nick Fury suspected the President was an impostor and planned to investigate Luke’s disappearance, while Howard prepared his first Iron Man armor. Luke then arrived in the Earth-199999 universe, where he found Nick Fury’s corpse turned to dust.

• Howard Stark and Nick Fury doubted the President’s claim that the Soviets had caused the attack and Superman’s disappearance.
• Howard and Fury considered that Conqueror Kang might have imprisoned or exiled Luke and agreed to keep working while seeking him.
• Howard showed Fury his first-generation steel armor, which he called Iron Man after Luke’s name for it.
• Luke emerged unharmed in New York in the Earth-199999 universe and recognized the drifting dust as Nick Fury’s remains.

Luke arrived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Thanos’s snap and found himself stranded in a devastated New York. He decided to seek help from an old acquaintance while looking for a way back to his original universe, which he named Universe 1024.

• Luke realized Conqueror Kang’s temporal device had brought him to a future world where Thanos had already erased half of all living beings.
• Luke watched people turn to ash and wondered whether the snap’s rules could affect someone from another universe; he remained unharmed.
• Luke reasoned that returning home required identifying his original universe and finding the right parameters to travel between separate universes.
• Luke named his original world Universe 1024 as he made his way to Times Square.
• Luke judged the Avengers and other heroes too devastated to help and decided to find an old acquaintance who could understand his situation.

Luke Cahill visited Ancient One’s Soul Spirit at the New York Sanctum and explained that he came from another universe to help reverse Thanos’s erasure. Ancient One agreed to provide the universe’s coordinates and parameters, and Luke left for Wakanda to meet Steve.

• Luke found the New York Sanctum deserted and saw signs that its occupants had vanished in Thanos’s snap.
• Luke contacted Ancient One through the World Window and introduced himself as a traveler from another universe.
• Luke asked Ancient One for this universe’s coordinates and detailed parameters so he could help the Avengers undo the deaths.
• Ancient One agreed to share the information in exchange for Luke helping Strange and the Avengers complete their mission.
• Luke took an ownerless Sling Ring, opened a portal, and headed to Wakanda to speak with Steve.

After Thanos erased half of all life, Captain America and the surviving Avengers tried to organize relief and regroup. Luke suddenly appeared in Wakanda and provoked Thor, who prepared to attack him.

• Captain America grieved over Vision and Bucky and declared that Thanos had succeeded.
• Captain America planned to return to New York, contact The Pentagon, compile casualty lists, stabilize society, and find Tony.
• Thor vowed to hunt down Thanos, then agreed to stay with the Avengers and help them.
• Luke appeared before the survivors in the forest and calmly mentioned Thor's dead family and followers.
• Thor became furious, raised Stormbreaker, and prepared to fight Luke.

Luke provoked Thor into a fight to establish his standing with the Avengers, then defeated him and took Stormbreaker. Thor agreed to talk calmly while Luke held the axe to his throat.

• Thor attacked Luke with lightning, but Luke’s Heat Vision shattered Thor’s breastplate and sent him crashing through trees.
• Luke taunted Thor about his fighting and Loki, prompting Thor to charge him with Stormbreaker.
• Thor’s axe sliced through Luke’s Bio-Force Field, but Luke blocked it with Heat Vision and met Thor’s punch.
• Luke fought through Thor’s lightning, slammed him into the ground, and took Stormbreaker from his grasp.
• Luke held Stormbreaker against Thor’s throat, and Thor reluctantly agreed to communicate normally.

Luke defeated Thor, then explained to the Avengers that he had crossed over from another universe and the past. After proving his knowledge of Steve Rogers’s private history, Luke offered to help rewrite the events surrounding Thanos and the people they had lost.

• Luke returned Stormbreaker to Thor after defeating him, and Thor reluctantly accepted that he had lost.
• Thor and Rocket argued about the defeat while the Avengers gathered around Luke and asked who he was and where he came from.
• Luke told the team he had crossed between parallel dimensions from the past, then proved his claim by revealing private details about Steve’s life.
• Thor and Steve accepted Luke’s explanation, and Steve greeted him as a friend while saying the Avengers had to address the aftermath of Thanos’s snap.
• Luke told Steve he could help with Thanos and their lost loved ones, and suggested that the present could be rewritten.

Luke convinced the surviving Avengers that the vanished could be restored with the Infinity Stones and led them to Scott Lang’s van to access the Quantum Realm. Scott emerged and learned that Hope, Hank, and Janet had died.

• Luke explained that the Avengers might reverse the Snap with the Infinity Gauntlet and warned that Thanos might destroy the Stones.
• Luke argued that Thanos was badly wounded and that the Avengers should focus on recovering the Infinity Stones rather than killing him.
• Luke directed the Avengers to locate Scott Lang’s van and explained how Hank Pym’s technology could reach the Quantum Realm.
• Bruce Banner activated the van’s miniature tunnel, and Scott emerged from the Quantum Realm.
• Luke told Scott that Hope, Hank, and Janet had died, leaving Scott stunned.

After learning that Thanos had erased half the universe, Scott Lang joined the Avengers’ plan to use the Quantum Realm for time travel and undo the snap. Luke prepared to bring in another genius and welcomed Captain Marvel as a new ally.

• Scott Lang panicked over Thanos’s snap, then asked whether his daughter Cassie had survived.
• Luke reassured Scott that Cassie was safe and explained that more than nine hours had passed outside while Scott spent about a minute and a half in the Quantum Realm.
• Luke proposed using the Quantum Realm to travel back, collect the Infinity Stones before Thanos’s snap, and reverse its effects.
• Scott agreed to help, and Luke introduced Bruce Banner as a genius who could help build a time-travel machine.
• Captain America asked Scott to provide the Pym Particles, since Hank Pym had been erased and Scott’s supply was their only hope.
• Captain America asked whether they would rescue Tony next, but Luke said they first had to welcome a new member as Captain Marvel entered Earth’s atmosphere.

Captain America, Luke, and Thor returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, where they met Carol Danvers and learned more about Thanos’s attacks across the galaxy. Luke proposed that Carol help them reach Titan and bring Iron Man back, leaving the team to find a ship capable of faster-than-light travel.

• Captain America, Luke, and Thor headed to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters after NASA reported a humanoid object entering New York’s airspace, and Luke explained Carol Danvers’s history to them.
• Thor asked Luke about his future, and Luke described him as an older, single, overweight gamer who drank heavily.
• Captain America assigned Banner and Scott Lang to transport the van containing the Quantum Realm passage, while Natasha and Rhodes handled government communications.
• Captain America arrived at headquarters and welcomed Carol Danvers, who regretted returning too late to prevent Thanos’s snap.
• Carol told the team that Thanos and the Black Order had devastated Xandar, Knowhere, and other worlds, and Luke said they needed to rescue Iron Man from Titan.
• Luke asked Rocket for Titan’s coordinates and suggested that Carol could provide a ship capable of faster-than-light travel.

Rocket Raccoon and Dr. Banner modified the Quinjet so the Avengers could travel to Titan and confront Thanos. After Captain Marvel accelerated the ship into a spatial jump, Luke and Carol reached Titan and found that Iron Man was barely alive.

• Rocket Raccoon and Dr. Banner worked on converting the Quinjet into a spacecraft while Luke explained the Avengers' plan to find Thanos and avenge the vanished.
• Two days later, Rocket Raccoon piloted the Quinjet as Captain Marvel accelerated it to light speed, carrying Luke and the surviving Avengers to Titan.
• The Avengers arrived on Titan, where several passengers rushed to the restroom after the journey made them nauseated.
• Luke and Captain Marvel left the Quinjet and descended through Titan's atmosphere to investigate the ruins.
• Luke used Super Vision to search the area and detected that Iron Man was close to death.