Chapter Summaries

Sean visited Professor Charles at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters and told him that David Haller, an Omega-level Mutant recently involved in a deadly incident, was his son. The chapter ended with Charles learning that he had a child in need of treatment.

• Stark Industries launched the Ultron Program worldwide, while Sean watched the announcement and considered how Skynet could use the program’s backdoors.
• Sean arrived at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters and reunited with Professor Charles, whom Jean had brought to meet him.
• Sean told Charles that Magneto had gained control of Kenya’s government and the Border Tribe in Wakanda, and had secured vibranium resources.
• Sean informed Charles about David Haller’s Omega-level potential, his history of disturbing visions, and the incident in which he killed Lenny and injured several orderlies.
• Sean revealed that DNA results showed David was Charles’s son.

Professor Charles and Sean examined David Haller, whose many distinct personalities and unstable mental state made his past difficult to understand. When David denied killing Lenny, Charles decided to enter the depths of his mind to find out what had happened.

• Professor Charles sensed that David's mind contained many distinct personalities, and David introduced several of them by name.
• Sean reviewed David's history of isolation, violence, addiction, and psychiatric treatment, then asked why he had killed Lenny.
• David grew agitated and insisted that he had not killed Lenny, unleashing an invisible pressure that choked the orderly.
• Professor Charles calmed David, while Sean realized that David's condition involved more than his innate ability.
• Charles said he needed to search David's vast subconscious, and he and Sean began a fierce mental confrontation as David sat silently.

Sean and Professor Charles searched David’s subconscious for his core personality, discovering that his many identities reflected the pain caused by his uncontrollable psychic powers. A violent massacre shattered the mental hospital, and Sean suspected David’s true personality was locked in a deeper level of consciousness as they fell into it.

• Sean and Professor Charles entered David’s subconscious and found a psychiatric hospital filled with separate personalities.
• Charles explained that David had split off many personalities to weaken the pain caused by his growing psychic power.
• Sean and Charles searched the hospital wards but could not find David’s core personality.
• A masked chainsaw killer, a scarred man with metal claws, and a puppet began slaughtering the hospital’s inhabitants.
• Sean suspected David’s true personality was deeper in his mind as the hospital collapsed and he and Charles fell downward.

Sean, Professor Charles, and David confronted the Shadow King in David’s mindscape, where the entity revealed its control over David and demanded that Charles surrender. The Shadow King set David’s personalities against one another, but Sean rose to challenge him.

• Sean remained conscious during the fall through David’s mindscape and landed beside Professor Charles and David.
• The Shadow King appeared before David’s personalities and revealed that he was Amahl Farouk, the entity who had created and inhabited them.
• Charles identified the Shadow King and recalled their past battle, in which Farouk lost his body and became a psychic entity.
• The Shadow King threatened to harm David if Charles fought back and offered to spare him if Charles surrendered.
• Charles refused, and the Shadow King incited David’s personalities to slaughter one another.
• Sean stood up, pulled out his chair, and swung it into his own head.

Sean overpowered Shadow King in David’s mindscape and exposed his plan to take Professor X as a host. Sean strengthened David’s control over his consciousness, leaving Shadow King to be torn apart by David’s many personalities.

• Sean beat Shadow King in David’s mindscape and realized Shadow King had caused David’s split personalities by feeding on his negative emotions.
• Shadow King claimed he could not be killed without harming David and threatened to take over David’s body if Charles refused to sacrifice himself.
• Sean revealed that Shadow King would rather possess Professor X than wait for David to reach his full potential.
• Sean used his psychic power to help David seize control of his consciousness and set the personalities against Shadow King.
• David rose from his chair and recited, “My name is Legion, for we are many,” as the personalities tore Shadow King apart.

Sean left Charles to care for David after explaining the danger and potential of his powers, then turned his attention to Kamar-Taj and the threat posed by Kaecilius. At Kamar-Taj, Stephen Strange struggled to practice magic until the Ancient One challenged him to abandon his fixed beliefs.

• Sean told Charles that David needed time to adjust after Shadow King's control and urged him to fulfill his responsibilities as a father.
• Sean left the counseling room to discuss Kaecilius and his followers with the Ancient One, as S.H.I.E.L.D. prepared a crackdown.
• Stephen Strange struggled to draw spell formations with his injured hands while the other apprentices practiced.
• The Ancient One showed Strange that Master Hamir could cast spells despite having a severed hand.
• The Ancient One told Strange to break free of his fixed perceptions and touched his forehead, telling him to open his eyes.

Sean discussed the dark incursion and the future of Kamar-Taj with the Ancient One before traveling to Latveria. He arrived at Glory Square and saw how Victor Doom had transformed the country into a theocratic regime.

• Sean met the Ancient One in Kamar-Taj, where she explained that Kaecilius and Dormammu’s forces were overwhelming the Sanctums’ defenses.
• The Ancient One said Stephen Strange was only beginning his magical training and that Mordo was not suited to turn back the future she had foreseen.
• Sean said he would travel to Eastern Europe to confront Kaecilius, while the Ancient One warned that he and Strange might not get along.
• Sean left Kamar-Taj without taking the Eye of Agamotto, which held the Time Stone.
• Sean arrived in Latveria’s Glory Square and saw a statue honoring Victor Doom, whose uprising had purged the old political order and established his rule.

Sean dined with Doctor Doom and discussed Latveria’s ambitions and Kaecilius’s cult. After hearing that Kaecilius had fled a clash with the Iron Legion, Sean decided to use Latveria’s Gypsies and Dark Creatures as bait to draw him out.

• Sean asked Doctor Doom whether he was satisfied with ruling Latveria, and Doom said he wanted more territory, resources, and war.
• Sean said Latveria should expand in Eastern Europe until it could gain a seat on the World Security Council.
• Doctor Doom told Sean that Kaecilius’s cult had performed a bloody ritual among a Gypsy tribe, sacrificing at least a hundred people to Dormammu.
• Doctor Doom explained that the Iron Legion resisted the cult’s corrupting magic, forcing Kaecilius and his followers to withdraw after a brief clash.
• Sean told Doctor Doom to monitor the Gypsies and Dark Creatures, expecting Kaecilius to target them and hoping to lure him out.

Kaecilius attacked a Gypsy camp near Latveria, seeking more followers for Dormammu, until Doctor Doom arrived with the Iron Legion. Sean then confronted Kaecilius and reflected on how the sorcerer’s grief and fear of death led him to question the Ancient One and discover her secret.

• Kaecilius and his followers consumed the Gypsy camp in fog, killing the adults and transforming a little girl into a potential Zealot.
• Doctor Doom arrived with the Iron Legion and declared that Kaecilius could not act freely in Latveria.
• Kaecilius defended his devotion to Dormammu, arguing that the Dark Dimension offered escape from time and death.
• Doctor Doom challenged Kaecilius over the people he had sacrificed to Dormammu.
• Sean emerged from the fog and called Kaecilius a fool, while reflecting on the sorcerer’s painful past and his discovery that the Ancient One had embraced the Dark Dimension.

Strange secretly used the Book of Cagliostro and the Eye of Agamotto to manipulate time, hoping to heal his hands, but the Ancient One stopped him and warned him about the dangers of the artifact. As the Three Sanctums came under attack, she sent Strange to Latveria and faced a dark force descending on New York.

• Strange entered Kamar-Taj’s library and studied the Book of Cagliostro, then took the Eye of Agamotto without permission.
• Strange used the Eye to make an apple decay and return to freshness, demonstrating his affinity with its power.
• The Ancient One took the Eye from Strange and warned him that changing time brought great danger and pain.
• The Ancient One realized Kaecilius had likely used himself as a decoy and sent Strange through a portal to tell Sean Sipes in Latveria to move faster.
• The Ancient One arrived at the New York Sanctum as the warning signaled an invasion and darkness descended beyond the material world.

Strange was thrown into a battle in Latveria, where Sean confronted Kaecilius and learned that Dormammu’s forces had infiltrated the Sanctums and were targeting New York. Sean attacked Kaecilius, shattered his spatial prison, and left the fight poised to continue.

• Strange landed on a battlefield in Latveria, where Doctor Doom’s Mechanical Legion fought Dormammu’s Zealots, and he defended himself from Fallen Sorcerers.
• Kaecilius revealed Dormammu’s power and said the battle in Latveria was a diversion while New York was the true target.
• Kaecilius claimed Dormammu’s followers had infiltrated the London and Hong Kong Sanctums and accused Ancient One of secretly drawing power from the Dark Dimension.
• Sean interrupted Kaecilius’s speech with an attack, but Kaecilius folded space into a looping prison around him.
• Sean broke the layered space with a punch.

Sean defeated Kaecilius after Dormammu intervened through the Fallen Sorcerer and threatened to engulf Earth. Strange told Sean that Kamar-Taj was under attack, and they arrived near the New York Sanctum to find the Ancient One confronting six kings of hell.

• Sean destroyed Kaecilius's storm and overpowered him, but Dormammu spoke through Kaecilius and promised to plunge Earth into darkness.
• Sean resisted Dormammu's attempt to tempt him and crushed Kaecilius's head, while the Fallen Sorcerer's soul fled into the Dark Dimension.
• Sean ordered Doctor Doom to eliminate the remaining Fallen Sorcerers after their forces collapsed without Kaecilius.
• Strange told Sean that the Sorcerer Supreme had sent him to find Sean because Kamar-Taj was under attack, and Sean revealed no effort to conceal his identity.
• Sean and Strange traveled to the New York Sanctum, where the Ancient One stood against the six kings of hell and declared that her defense had held for a thousand years.

As Hell's rulers invaded through the Mirror Dimension and the New York Sanctum became the last defense against Dormammu, the Ancient One held back the enemy while Sean decided to confront Dormammu. Blackheart appeared in Sean's path, and Sean prepared to send him to Mephisto.

• The Ancient One sealed New York inside the Mirror Dimension and faced Hell's rulers, who warned that the Sanctums' defenses were collapsing and Dormammu would soon descend.
• Sean brought Strange to the New York Sanctum, where Mordo and the sorcerers battled Dormammu's Zealots and Hell's dark creatures.
• The Ancient One unleashed the sacred sword of Vishanti, destroying many of the advancing dark minions as the battle threatened to overwhelm the sorcerers.
• Sean announced that he would handle Dormammu while the Ancient One held off Hell's rulers and Zarathos.
• Blackheart appeared before Sean, identified himself as Mephisto's son, and declared that he wanted to taste Sean's soul.
• Sean told Blackheart that he would send him to meet Mephisto.

The Sanctum Legion fought the hellish invasion across New York as Ancient One confronted the Hell Lords at Hell Gate. After sealing Zarathos and rejecting Abaddon’s offer, she charged into Hell to face all six, while Sean hurled Blackheart through Shimao Tower and deep into the earth.

• Flame Demons, Skeleton Demons, Stone Golems, and other hellish creatures attacked New York as the Sanctum Legion built defensive lines around the city.
• Zarathos attacked Ancient One, who subdued him with Bolts of Balthakk and sealed him inside a prison of time.
• Abaddon offered to join forces against Dormammu if Ancient One allowed hellish creatures to enter and leave the material world freely, but she rejected his proposal.
• Ancient One charged into Hell Gate and used Images of Ikonn to confront the six Hell Lords.
• Sean held Blackheart by the throat and hurled him through more than a hundred floors of Shimao Tower, shattering his body deep underground.

Sean reached the besieged New York Sanctum as its defenses failed and Dormammu began to descend. Strange returned with the Cloak of Levitation and Book of the Vishanti, but Dormammu’s gaze appeared in the sky, leaving the invasion imminent.

• Mordo and the Sanctum Sorcerers fought Hell’s creatures while Ancient One battled the Hell Lords in Hell.
• Sean destroyed a mass of Hell creatures with the power of his metal gauntlet.
• Strange returned to the New York Sanctum carrying the Cloak of Levitation and the Book of the Vishanti, and used the book to shield the Sanctum.
• Mordo told Strange that Ancient One had gone into Hell to eliminate the remaining enemies before Dormammu descended.
• The dimensional barrier around the New York Sanctum cracked, revealing Dormammu’s enormous eyes in the sky.

Sean entered the Dark Dimension to confront Dormammu as the New York Sanctum and Mirror Dimension began to collapse. Dormammu offered him a place as an envoy, but Sean refused and said he was there to negotiate.

• Kaecilius emerged remade by Dormammu and urged the others to serve the Dark Dimension, while Mordo recognized him as a puppet.
• Sean struck Kaecilius apart, but Dormammu’s dark energy quickly re-formed his body.
• Sean left Mordo and Strange to deal with Kaecilius and charged through the fractured barrier into the Dark Dimension.
• Sean saw dead planets chained within Dormammu’s domain, then faced Dormammu, who recognized him as someone who had been beside the Ancient One.
• Dormammu offered Sean allegiance as an envoy of the Dark Dimension, but Sean refused and declared that he had come to negotiate.

Sean fought Dormammu in the Dark Dimension, using the three Infinity Stones to withstand and counter the ruler’s attacks. As their clash threatened the dimension and sent shockwaves into the material world, Mordo and Strange could only watch and hope Sean would prevail.

• Dormammu attacked Sean with a massive beam, but Sean blocked it with his gauntlet and shattered the dead planet beneath them in their struggle.
• Sean mocked Dormammu by twisting his phantom head into a Mickey Mouse face, then repelled attacks made from planets and dark flames.
• Dormammu offered to spare Earth in exchange for the Infinity Stones and claimed he could give up the heart of a Cosmic God, but Sean refused.
• Sean unleashed all three Infinity Stones, gathering their power into a sphere that collided with Dormammu’s force and unleashed a destructive shockwave.
• Kaecilius’s power was stripped away and returned to the Dark Dimension, while Strange and Mordo continued fighting and waited to learn the outcome of Sean’s battle.

Sean and the Ancient One confronted Dormammu in the Dark Dimension after he offered to spare Earth in exchange for the Infinity Stones. With Sean sustaining her through the Mind Stone, the Ancient One abandoned her failing human body and began taking control of the Dark Dimension, leaving her and Dormammu locked in a struggle over the realm.

• Dormammu told Sean he could not destroy the Dark Dimension and demanded the three gems in exchange for abandoning Earth.
• The exhausted Ancient One appeared and challenged Dormammu, who identified her Hell curse and the Eye of Agamotto’s toll on her life.
• Dormammu blasted the Ancient One’s body into ash, but Sean remained calm and warned that Dormammu’s end had come.
• Sean used the Mind Stone to reveal the Ancient One’s immense spiritual form, which began seizing control of the Dark Dimension.
• The Ancient One and Dormammu each occupied half the realm as their powers clashed.

Sean and the Ancient One used the Mind Stone to weaken Dormammu and take control of the Dark Dimension. The Ancient One chose to remain merged with it to contain Dormammu, then entrusted Sean with the Eye of Agamotto and named Strange as the next Sorcerer Supreme.

• The Ancient One absorbed the Dark Dimension's energy while Sean used the Mind Stone to support her against Dormammu.
• Dormammu tried to crush the Ancient One's spirit, then pleaded and cursed her as she continued to erode his power.
• The Ancient One told Sean that she and Dormammu would struggle for control over the Dark Dimension for thousands of years.
• The Ancient One told Sean that Strange would be the next Sorcerer Supreme and gave him the Eye of Agamotto.
• Sean took the Eye of Agamotto and sensed the mysteries of time within it.

The Ancient One drove the Hell Lords away, but the Dark Dimension continued consuming the Mirror Dimension until Sean used the Time Stone to reverse his past and sever his future. As the dark vortex withdrew, Sean erased his alternate selves across time and parallel worlds, leaving only one version of himself.

• The Ancient One defeated and drove off the Hell Lords while Mordo, Strange, and the Sanctum Sorcerers fought the remaining creatures in the Mirror Dimension.
• Mordo and Strange feared the Mirror Dimension would collapse as the Dark Dimension continued to erode it and the New York Sanctum lay destroyed.
• The Dark Dimension suddenly withdrew, and Strange spotted Sean standing within the contracting vortex.
• Sean shattered the Eye of Agamotto’s golden casing and used the Time Stone to perceive the river of time.
• Sean erased his past selves, then anchored himself in the present and severed his future across parallel worlds.