Chapter Summaries

Stranded on Titan with Nebula, a badly injured Tony Stark prepared to risk escaping in the damaged Milano rather than wait for rescue. As his infection and exhaustion overwhelmed him, a mysterious man arrived and told him to call him Godfather.

• Nebula treated Tony's severe wounds and explained that repairing the Milano would take days, while its batteries could provide only forty-eight hours of flight.
• Tony insisted that they try to leave Titan, despite the risks of running out of power and supplies in space.
• Nebula detected an approaching life-form and went outside to investigate while Tony remained aboard the ship.
• Tony's fever worsened as he drifted toward sleep, and Nebula returned with a mysterious young man.
• When Tony asked who he was, the man replied that Tony should call him Godfather.

Tony recovered from his wounds in Luke's Regeneration Cradle and learned that Luke came from another universe and had known Howard Stark. The heroes reunited aboard the Quinjet, tracked Thanos to the Garden, and prepared to confront him.

• Luke revived Tony in the Regeneration Cradle and explained his connection to Tony's father in another universe.
• Tony accepted Luke as his uncle, while Thor objected to reminders of his loss to Luke.
• The heroes mourned those erased by Thanos's snap, and Captain America proposed tracking Thanos through energy traces left by the Space Stone.
• Banner and the others identified the Garden as Thanos's likely location.
• Captain America rallied the heroes to assemble and fight Thanos again.

The Avengers prepared for a mission to kill Thanos and reclaim the Infinity Gauntlet, while Tony insisted on joining despite his poor condition. As the team waited to jump, Thanos sensed the coming threat from his garden planet and gripped the Gauntlet.

• Captain America scheduled the Avengers’ space jump for twenty minutes later and named the mission the Decapitation Strike.
• Tony told Captain America he would join the fight and asked Luke to deliver his farewell video to Pepper if he died.
• Luke and Tony discussed Howard Stark’s youth and the fatherly affection Tony had missed.
• Thor pledged not to miss Thanos’s head with Stormbreaker again, and Luke closed his eyes to wait for the jump.
• Thanos sat at his cottage with all six Infinity Stones intact and clenched the Gauntlet as the Reality Stone flickered.

The Avengers ambushed Thanos on his garden planet, but found that he had destroyed the Infinity Stones and killed him in anger. Luke then discovered the scene was an illusion, and the real Thanos appeared, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Thor, Captain America, Tony, and the others planned a no-rules attack on Thanos, while Carol scouted the planet and found no defenses.
• Carol, Banner, and War Machine quickly restrained Thanos in his hut, and Thor cut off his gauntlet-wearing left hand.
• Rocket Raccoon found the Infinity Stones missing, and Thanos said he had destroyed them after using them to erase half of all life.
• Nebula confirmed that Thanos did not lie, and Thor beheaded him as the Avengers lost hope of restoring the vanished lives.
• Luke sensed something was wrong, and the hut and headless corpse vanished as the real Thanos appeared.

Luke exposed Thanos’s Reality Stone illusion, and Thanos explained that he had used the Time Stone to witness a future in which the Avengers killed him after he destroyed the Infinity Stones. When Thanos prepared to attack, Captain Marvel entered Binary Form and fought him, but he blasted her into a mountainside with the Power Stone.

• Thor realized the decapitated Thanos and the restored cottage had been illusions created by the Reality Stone.
• Luke challenged Thanos, who revealed that he had seen a future where the Avengers arrived after he destroyed the Infinity Stones and Thor killed him.
• Thanos explained that seeing this ending convinced him to eliminate the Avengers before they could threaten him.
• Captain Marvel entered Binary Form and interrupted Thanos as he prepared to use the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Thanos fought Carol and struck her with the Power Stone, sending her crashing into a mountainside.

Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet to overpower Thor and battle the Avengers, who coordinated their attacks while Luke watched from the sidelines. After Thanos incapacitated the heroes and declared himself destiny, Luke stepped forward to challenge him.

• Thanos restrained Thor with the Space Stone and summoned his double-bladed sword to attack him.
• Iron Man struck Thanos with missiles, freeing Thor to resume the fight as the other Avengers joined in.
• The Avengers coordinated their attacks, but Thanos used his strength and the Infinity Stones to defeat Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulkbuster Armor.
• Thanos turned the battlefield into a rain of fiery meteors, leaving the superheroes unable to rise.
• Luke confronted Thanos, saying that he enjoyed defying fate and changing destiny.

Luke faced Thanos after shielding the surviving superheroes from the meteor firestorm and revealed the catastrophic force of his Superman body. Thanos unleashed a devastating attack, but Luke advanced through the erupting magma and challenged him to fight with everything he had.

• Luke protected the superheroes from Thanos's meteor firestorm and revealed that he came from another universe as a passing traveler.
• Thanos recognized Luke as the final obstacle to his victory and prepared to kill him.
• Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and Black Widow watched Luke face Thanos while the battered heroes could only hope he would prevail.
• Thanos smashed the ground with the Infinity Gauntlet, triggering volcanic eruptions and violent earthquakes.
• Luke explained that his Steel Body's immense mass and power could devastate the world without his Bio-Force Field, then stepped through the atmosphere and magma unharmed.
• Luke told Thanos to stake everything on their fight so he would accept defeat.

Luke battled Thanos on the shattered garden planet, overpowering him despite his attempts to use the Infinity Stones. Thanos ended the chapter battered and helpless in the magma as Luke remained undefeated.

• The Avengers retreated from the collapsing battlefield while Thanos attacked Luke with the Time Stone, but Luke blocked the time loop with a Dimension Mirror spell.
• Luke struck Thanos with a powerful punch, and the Power Stone stopped the blow but cracked the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Thanos used the Space Stone to evade Luke’s next punch, which tore a vast wound across the planet’s surface.
• Thanos’s Mind Stone attack failed against Luke, who predicted his spatial movements and slammed an elbow into his chin.
• Luke pursued Thanos with punches and a kick, shattering his armor and leaving him badly injured in the magma.

Luke continued overpowering Thanos and rejected his justification for erasing half the universe. As Thanos unleashed one last attack and snapped his fingers, the chapter ended before revealing what the snap did.

• Thanos, gravely wounded, struggled to rise and challenged Luke again despite being unable to defeat him.
• Luke explained why mass extermination could not prevent conflict, while Thanos defended his plan to act as a cosmic cleaner.
• Luke accused Thanos of seeing himself as a god and said he would need strength to prove himself.
• Thanos fired the Infinity Stones at Luke, who countered with Heat Vision as the heroes withdrew from the planet.
• Thanos realized the attack was failing, raised his left hand, and snapped his fingers as Luke's Heat Vision pierced his chest.

Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet to erase Superman, but the snap failed because the Stones could not affect someone from another universe. Luke disarmed and killed Thanos, took control of the six Stones, and prepared to snap his fingers himself.

• Thanos snapped his fingers, believing he had erased Superman, while the Avengers feared Luke was gone.
• Thanos used the Space Stone to teleport the Avengers away so no one could stop him from destroying the Stones.
• Luke told Thanos that his actions had been useless because Luke belonged neither to the past nor the future.
• Thanos tried to snap again, but Luke cut off his left arm, shattered the Gauntlet, and took the six Stones.
• Luke explained that the Stones could affect only their own universe, then killed Thanos with Heat Vision.
• Luke held the six Stones in his palm and prepared to snap his fingers.

Tony and Banner built a new gauntlet while discussing why Luke had survived Thanos’s snap, and the Avengers struggled to restore order after half the universe’s population vanished. When they debated who should use the new gauntlet to bring everyone back, they agreed Superman was the best choice, but Luke was away visiting an old friend.

• Tony and Banner worked on a replacement gauntlet and discussed how Luke’s outsider status and strength might have protected him from the Infinity Stones.
• Thor, Captain America, War Machine, and Black Widow described the crime, unrest, and religious disputes spreading after half the population disappeared.
• Thor, Carol, and Captain America volunteered to make the snap, while Rocket Raccoon mocked Thor’s claim to be the strongest Avenger.
• Nebula argued that Superman was the most suitable person to use the gauntlet, and the others agreed.
• Carol said Luke had gone to visit an old friend when Captain America asked where he was.

After completing the Infinity Stone quest and gaining the Devastator template, Luke collected his universe’s coordinates from Ancient One. He prepared to return to Universe-1024, while Ancient One warned him that inaccurate calculations could strand him or send him to the wrong universe.

• Luke received the Devastator template after collecting all six Infinity Stones and updated his abilities.
• Luke visited Ancient One at the New York Sanctum and explained that he had used a second plan to defeat Thanos and shorten the disaster.
• Ancient One noted that Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff had been meant to die, but Luke welcomed the survival of the heroes and the return of vanished lives.
• Luke reminded Ancient One that their deal was fulfilled, and she gave him the coordinate data for his universe.
• Ancient One warned Luke that errors in interuniversal travel could leave him lost in spacetime or send him to another universe, but Luke said he would return to Universe-1024.

Luke discussed Asgardian food and the cost of using the Infinity Gauntlet with Thor, who agreed that Luke should perform the snap. Two days later, with the stones fitted into Tony and Banner’s gauntlet and S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters sealed, Luke prepared to bring back the vanished lives.

• Luke found Thor eating fried chicken, drinking beer, and watching a game livestream at S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters.
• Luke told Thor about the variety of Eastern cuisine and promised he could find Old Wang at Kamar-Taj after the vanished lives were restored.
• Thor challenged Luke’s confidence about using the Infinity Gauntlet, then agreed Luke should wear it when Luke warned him about the possible damage to his arm.
• Two days later, Tony and Banner placed all six stones into a nanomaterial gauntlet, and Tony ordered the headquarters sealed and evacuated.
• Luke put on the gauntlet as the Avengers watched and prepared to begin the snap.

Luke used the six Infinity Stones to undo the effects of Thanos's snap, then waited with the Avengers to see whether it had worked. The chapter ended as Scott Lang's phone began vibrating and Iron Man lowered the headquarters' defenses.

• Luke put on Iron Man's nanomaterial Infinity Gauntlet and endured the Stones' energy without serious harm.
• Dr. Banner warned that Luke's power could unleash enough gamma radiation to destroy North America, while the Avengers watched anxiously.
• Luke activated the Stones, briefly perceived the multiverse, and snapped his fingers to restore the vanished lives.
• Hawkeye asked whether the snap had worked, and Scott Lang's phone began vibrating.
• Iron Man deactivated S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters' defense protocols as sunlight and the sounds of nature entered.

After Luke restored every life erased by Thanos, the heroes reunited with their loved ones and began making plans for the future. Thor remained alone in his grief, but Luke invited him to Kamar-Taj for food and drinks.

• Hawkeye and Black Widow contacted their loved ones, while Hawkeye rushed to reunite with Laura and the children.
• Scott Lang spoke with Hank Pym and Hope, and Captain America confirmed that the vanished people had returned.
• Iron Man told Captain America he planned to retire with Pepper, and the two put their past grudges behind them.
• Carol thanked Luke for saving the universe and planned to meet Fury before returning to her work as space police.
• Luke found Thor grieving his lost family, but Thor declined to restore Loki and accepted Luke's invitation to find food and alcohol.

After being erased and restored, Old Wang shared a hotpot meal with Luke, Thor, and Rocket Raccoon while Luke waited for Doctor Strange to return. A week later, Luke learned that the team had devised a risky cross-universe travel plan with transfer stations, but he was left wondering how they would work.

• Luke told Old Wang that Doctor Strange would return soon and could explain what had happened.
• Luke left Kamar-Taj with a drunken Thor and an overstuffed Rocket Raccoon, asking Old Wang to tell Strange to meet him at S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters.
• Tony, Dr. Banner, and Hank Pym presented Luke with their universe model and explained that they lacked reliable destination coordinates for cross-universe travel.
• Tony explained that Strange had suggested transfer stations where Luke could gather coordinates and improve his chances of finding his way home.
• Luke looked puzzled as Tony described the transfer-station plan.

Iron Man and Dr. Banner prepared to test their spacetime transportation device, asking Luke to enter the Quantum Realm and return. As the test began, Luke and Iron Man discussed the plan to find a route home across other universes.

• Nick Fury told Luke that Iron Man and Dr. Banner needed him for a test of their nearly completed spacetime transportation device.
• Luke reassured Fury that the Avengers could not stop him if he had harmful intentions, then went to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters.
• Iron Man explained that the first test would send Luke into the Quantum Realm and bring him back before they attempted cross-universe travel.
• Iron Man and Dr. Banner opened a passage above the platform as Luke asked what they needed him to do.
• Iron Man described Doctor Strange Strange's plan to use universes as transfer stations while collecting coordinates and refining the route home.
• Luke teased Iron Man about a universe where he married Captain America, prompting Iron Man to reject the idea.

Luke, Thor, and Rocket traveled through the multiverse after Iron Man and Dr. Banner completed their transport device. They crashed into an unknown universe, where a red-caped figure asked if they were contractors summoned by them.

• Iron Man and Dr. Banner explained that Luke needed teammates as signal markers and said the cross-universe transport would take at least half a month to prepare.
• Half a month later, Luke chose Thor and Rocket as his companions and said goodbye to the others before Dr. Banner activated the transport device.
• Luke, Thor, and Rocket crossed the boundary of their universe and traveled through the multiverse without knowing their destination.
• The three slammed into a transparent barrier and saw a wary figure in a red cape, who asked if they were the contractors summoned by them.

Luke, Thor, and Rocket Raccoon arrived in Kamar-Taj after Stephen Strange accidentally summoned them while seeking Mephisto’s minions. Luke questioned Strange about this universe and asked to see Ancient One, leaving Strange surprised that Luke knew she had been injured.

• Stephen Strange discovered that his summoning ritual had brought Luke, Thor, and Rocket Raccoon to Kamar-Taj instead of Mephisto’s offspring.
• Luke questioned Strange and learned that Asgard still existed, Thor had not become king, and Rocket was unknown to the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Luke told Strange he was a traveler passing through and teased him about seeking power from Mephisto.
• Strange identified himself as a sorcerer and explained that he had once been a doctor before an accident led him to Kamar-Taj.
• Luke asked to see Ancient One, then surprised Strange by knowing that she had been injured.

Luke learned that Strange was seeking a contractor to qualify for the Sorcerer Supreme Tournament, a contest to choose Ancient One’s successor, and offered to help. He suspected Ancient One’s reported injuries were a ploy and left the chapter volunteering as Strange’s contractor.

• Luke asked Strange to take him to meet Ancient One, but Strange refused because Kamar-Taj was sealed while his teacher was injured.
• Strange’s confused response to Luke’s mention of the Battle of New York led Luke to suspect he had arrived in a Marvel universe with a different history.
• Old Wang arrived and criticized Strange’s contractors, dismissing Thor as useless for the Sorcerer Supreme Tournament.
• Luke realized Strange wanted Mephisto’s power to qualify for the Vishanti’s trial and suspected Ancient One’s injury was bait.
• Luke offered to become Strange’s contractor, claiming he was an ordinary high-level sorcerer with a little magical knowledge.