Chapter Summaries

Alex battled Ronan and discovered that Ronan’s Universal Warhammer could absorb energy and unleash powerful abilities, including matter disintegration. Alex’s attacks and Mind Blast failed to stop Ronan’s charge, leaving the fight unresolved as Ronan closed in.

• Alex sent a giant flaming phoenix at Ronan, but Ronan absorbed it with his Universal Warhammer.
• Lilandra explained that the warhammer could manipulate Cosmic Energy and use abilities such as energy absorption, matter disintegration, and teleportation.
• Alex shielded himself from Ronan’s energy beam and absorbed it, but a lightning attack disintegrated half his shoulder before he healed the injury.
• Alex’s magnetic fields and Metal Control could not move the warhammer, and Ronan charged at him again.
• Alex used Mind Blast to stop Ronan, but the warhammer helped Ronan resist the attack and continue his charge.

Alex adapted his body to keep his abilities while fighting Ronan and used taunts to provoke him into making a mistake. The chapter left Alex behind Ronan, declaring that Ronan had lost.

• Alex defended against Ronan’s Universal Warhammer, but its strange energy pierced his arm and damaged his origin.
• Lilandra worriedly asked Warlord whether the duel could be stopped, and Warlord insisted that Alex would be fine.
• Alex transformed most of his body into energy while retaining key organs, allowing him to use his abilities without revealing his Black Hole transformation.
• Alex taunted Ronan about being a blacksmith, provoking him to swing the Universal Warhammer and unleash a Cosmic Energy Wave.
• Alex dodged the wave and appeared behind Ronan, telling him that he had lost.

Alex defeated Ronan by secretly slipping a steel ball into his body, but the Kree Empire disavowed their wager and stripped Ronan of his Accuser position. Enraged, Ronan attacked Alex again, and Alex prepared to fight back.

• Ronan admitted defeat after Alex's steel ball emerged from his chest, and Loma explained how Alex had hidden it inside him during their fight.
• Alex demanded that Ronan honor their wager, but a Kree official declared it invalid, announced the Supreme Intelligence had stripped Ronan of his Accuser position, and left with the other Kree.
• Ronan, furious over his defeat and dismissal, attacked Alex with the Universal Warhammer and sent him crashing into the arena barrier.
• Loma reached Alex as he got back to his feet, but he pushed her aside and vowed to teach Ronan a lesson.

Alex ended his duel with Ronan by allowing him to leave with the Universal Warhammer after Ronan promised to fulfill their wager. He then asked Queens Sawa and Lilandra to help find Adam, who had disappeared while pursuing Thanos.

• Alex stopped Ronan from leaving and demanded proof that he would honor his promise, but Ronan refused to surrender the Universal Warhammer.
• Alex let Ronan depart Planet Feather after accepting his promise, while Loma questioned why he had not detained him.
• Alex reunited awkwardly with Queen Sawa and Queen Lilandra and asked them to help locate Adam.
• Sawa said Adam had left Xandar to pursue Thanos and agreed to investigate his whereabouts, while Lilandra also pledged her help.
• After Sawa and Lilandra left, Loma teased Alex about his relationships with queens, and Alex privately thought of them as his Peach Blossom Debt.

Alex searched for Adam on Xandar and learned that Adam had last been seen in the Kree Empire. He prepared to travel there despite the dangers, with support from the Nova Corps and a Shi'ar diplomatic delegation.

• Alex visited the Nova Corps base on Xandar, reunited with Dai, and received the Corps' limited records of Adam's movements.
• Alex learned that Adam had last appeared in the Kree Empire, and Sawa offered to ask the Kree for information.
• The Kree Empire sent a dismissive reply that revealed nothing about Adam, so Alex decided to investigate in person.
• Worldmind welcomed Alex back into the Nova Corps, and Alex accepted the Nova Force and regained his Three-Star Centurion rank.
• Alex returned to Planet Feather, where Lilandra warned him about the Kree and offered him Shi'ar envoy status.
• Lilandra assembled a diplomatic delegation led by Warlord to travel to Kree-Lar with Alex and Loma.

Alex visited the Supreme Intelligence with Warlord’s delegation and suspected it was hiding information about Adam. After the Supreme Intelligence dismissed them, Alex began searching its subordinates and identified the Accusers as his next target.

• Warlord led the delegation, including Alex and Loma, to meet the Supreme Intelligence in Kree-Lar.
• The Supreme Intelligence claimed Adam was not on Kree, but Alex’s instincts told him it was lying.
• After returning to the hotel, Alex told Warlord and Loma he would seek evidence and teleported away.
• Alex controlled a Kree researcher and searched his memories, learning little about the Supreme Intelligence’s affairs.
• Alex discovered that the Accusers handled the Supreme Intelligence’s concrete affairs and served under its command.

Alex went to the imprisoned Ronan to learn about Adam and discovered Ronan had captured him for the Supreme Intelligence. Ronan refused to reveal Adam’s whereabouts unless Alex recovered the Universal Warhammer, warning that Alex had little time to find him.

• Alex learned that Ronan had been imprisoned after returning from Planet Feather and teleported into the Kree prison to find him.
• Ronan refused Alex’s offer to free him but agreed to discuss Adam, whose name visibly surprised him.
• Alex failed to read Ronan’s memories because the Supreme Intelligence had installed a Mental Defense Line in every Accuser.
• Ronan demanded that Alex find and bring him the Universal Warhammer in exchange for Adam’s whereabouts.
• Ronan revealed that he had captured Adam when Adam’s strength was diminished and said the Supreme Intelligence wanted the Universal Warhammer.
• Alex left the prison after warning Ronan not to deceive him.

Alex searched the Kree Empire armory and Accuser Tower for Ronan's Universal Warhammer, then traded it back to Ronan for information. Ronan revealed that the Supreme Intelligence was targeting the Soul Stone and had Adam trapped in its nutrient tank, leaving Alex to return to the Shi'ar delegation's hotel before confronting it.

• Alex searched the Kree Empire armory through a controlled soldier but found no sign of the Universal Warhammer.
• Alex infiltrated Accuser Tower, searched its staff members' memories, and found the Universal Warhammer hidden in a basement.
• Alex brought the Universal Warhammer to Ronan, who revealed that the Supreme Intelligence wanted the Soul Stone to evolve.
• When Alex refused to return the weapon without learning about Adam, Ronan warned him that Adam's fate was at stake.
• Alex released his mental restraint on the Universal Warhammer, and Ronan told him that Adam was being devoured in the Supreme Intelligence's nutrient tank.
• Alex promised to return for Ronan and went back to the hotel where the Shi'ar delegation was staying.

Alex and Loma attacked the Supreme Intelligence’s facility to rescue Adam, but three teleporting robots blocked their way. Alex began fighting them after his magnetic cannon failed to hit them.

• Alex persuaded Warlord and the Shi'ar delegation to leave Kree-Lar, while Loma stayed to help him.
• Alex and Loma waited until night, then approached the Supreme Intelligence’s nutrient tank and planned to rescue Adam.
• Loma used magic to knock out nearly ten Kree soldiers, while Alex incapacitated the other researchers and soldiers with Mind Blast and controlled metal particles.
• Alex and Loma entered the Supreme Intelligence’s room, where three identical robots confronted Alex.
• The Supreme Intelligence ordered the robots to kill Alex, and they attacked with teleportation, energy, and physical strikes.
• Alex counterattacked with magnetic steel balls, but their trajectories curved around the robots, so he unleashed Energy Impact Beams.

Alex defeated the Supreme Intelligence’s robots with a Containment Formation and discovered Adam inside a cocoon. He hid Adam in Ronan’s empty prison cell, then rejoined Loma to fight Ronan and the Accusers so they could escape without being pursued.

• Alex trapped the three robots in a Containment Formation, tore them apart, and smashed the Supreme Intelligence’s nutrient tank with their wreckage.
• The Supreme Intelligence lost consciousness when its nutrient fluid spilled, and Alex found an earth-yellow cocoon in the tank.
• Alex recognized Adam’s consciousness inside the cocoon and learned that Adam needed to recover.
• With Loma warning that reinforcements were approaching, Alex teleported Adam’s cocoon to Ronan’s empty prison cell and hid it with an Illusion Formation.
• Alex returned to find Ronan and more than a hundred Accusers attacking Loma, then joined the battle and told her they needed to injure Ronan and the Accusers before leaving.

Alex and Loma fled Kree-Lar after Ronan turned the Accusers against them, but they returned to hide in the prison with Adam’s cocoon. Ronan found them and demanded Adam; when Alex learned Ronan had captured Warlord, he located him with a Mind Blast and teleported away with Warlord, Loma, and Adam.

• Alex saw Ronan deliberately kill an Accuser and incite the others, then told Loma to prepare to retreat as their fight turned against them.
• Loma used Magic Light to freeze the Accusers and Kree Sentinels, and Alex teleported away with her while Ronan destroyed the frozen forces and declared them wanted criminals.
• Unable to escape the Kree Empire’s manhunt, Alex returned to Kree-Lar and hid with Loma in the prison beside Adam’s cocoon.
• Ronan found Alex and Loma alone in the cell and offered to let them leave if they abandoned Adam, then revealed that he had captured Warlord.
• Alex attacked Ronan, discovered Warlord’s location with a Mind Blast, and teleported away with Warlord, Loma, and Adam before Ronan could stop them.

Alex discovered that Adam’s cocoon absorbed energy and poured most of his own power into it, but Adam urgently demanded more. Alex went to the Accusers’ base to provoke Ronan into using Cosmic Energy, then redirected the fight toward the Accusers’ building.

• Alex told Warlord he could not use Teleportation often while carrying Adam’s cocoon and realized the cocoon might be absorbing the excess Psionic Power.
• Alex tested his theory by feeding energy into the cocoon, which glowed gold as Adam called for more.
• Alex poured nearly eighty percent of his energy into the cocoon, then left Loma and Warlord to find more.
• Alex returned to the Accusers’ base and fought Ronan at close range, deliberately taking some of Ronan’s Cosmic Energy attacks to absorb their energy.
• When Ronan grew suspicious and reduced his energy attacks, Alex hurled a massive iron ball at the Accusers’ building.
• Ronan and the Accusers fired on the iron ball, but it remained unharmed and sped toward the building.

Alex fought Ronan and the Accusers, but their Psionic Rays pierced his defenses and forced him to retreat. After learning how the rays worked, Alex began developing his own and successfully created a basic Psionic Ray.

• Ronan used the Universal Warhammer to shield the Accuser Tower from Alex’s iron sphere, while Alex secretly drove the sphere forward to absorb more energy.
• The Accusers and Kree Sentinels combined red and blue beams into purple Psionic Rays, knocking the iron sphere away and proving immune to Alex’s Energy Control.
• The Accusers fired Psionic Rays at Alex, piercing his body, and Ronan struck him with a black ripple that opened a severe gash across his chest.
• Alex teleported away from Ronan, healed in hiding, and then questioned a Kree researcher to learn that Psionic Rays combined Psionic Power with energy.
• Alex began creating Psionic Rays and successfully unleashed a basic ray in less than half an hour.

After learning to neutralize Psionic Rays, Alex went to a Kree energy weapons base to absorb energy but found Ronan and the Accusers waiting for him. Alex tricked them into exhausting themselves, but Ronan escaped, leaving Alex to enter the base and let the Accusers go.

• Alex mastered Psionic Defense, which neutralized the Psionic Power in Psionic Rays, and learned that most Kree technologies posed no threat to him.
• Alex went to an energy weapons base on a moon of Kree-Lar, where Ronan and dozens of Accusers ambushed him.
• Alex pretended Ronan and the Accusers were injuring him while his Psionic Defense absorbed the Accusers' Psionic Rays for three hours.
• Ronan realized Alex's injuries were fake, and Alex dropped the act, but Ronan escaped using the Universal Warhammer.
• Alex spared the exhausted Accusers and entered the nearby energy weapons base.

Alex countered the Kree Psionic Rays and lured Ronan and the Accusers into a prolonged battle, secretly absorbing their energy while faking injuries. When Ronan realized the deception, he escaped with the Universal Warhammer, and Alex let the Accusers go before entering the energy weapons base.

• Alex mastered a way to neutralize Psionic Rays and learned that Kree technology posed little threat to him beyond the unknown Omni-Wave Emitter.
• Alex went to the energy weapons base on Kree-Lar's satellite and found Ronan and dozens of Accusers waiting for him.
• Ronan blocked Alex's steel balls and led the Accusers in attacking him with Psionic Rays while Alex pretended to be wounded and absorbed their energy.
• After three hours, Ronan recognized that Alex's injuries were fake, and Alex admitted the deception.
• Alex tried to attack Ronan, but Ronan escaped with the Universal Warhammer; Alex spared the Accusers and entered the energy weapons base.

Ronan destroyed the energy weapons satellite and framed Alex and the Shi'ar Empire, turning himself into a Kree hero. Alex survived and returned to the prison cell, where he revealed the Phoenix Shard’s role in saving him and Warlord decided to accompany him to Earth.

• Ronan activated the energy weapons base’s self-destruct system, destroying the satellite while Alex was inside it.
• Ronan broadcast to the Kree Empire, shattered the satellite’s burning debris with the Universal Warhammer, and blamed Alex and the Shi'ar Empire for the disaster.
• After waiting more than ten hours, Loma worried that Alex was in trouble and embraced him when he returned to the cell.
• Alex transferred energy into the giant cocoon and explained that Energy Absorption and the Phoenix Shard had helped him survive the explosion.
• Warlord heard that Alex carried a Phoenix Shard and decided he had no choice but to go with him to Earth.

Adam emerged from the cocoon, and Alex replenished his strength by devouring it before trying to take him back to Earth. Adam revealed that the Soul Stone had been stolen by the Kree and was on the Supreme Intelligence’s corpse, but as Alex approached it, a sudden danger struck.

• Adam broke out of the cocoon, thanked Alex for helping him, and offered Alex the life-filled cocoon to absorb.
• Alex devoured the cocoon and regained his strength, then urged Adam to return to Earth with him.
• Adam refused to leave without revenge and revealed that the Kree had taken the Soul Stone, which he could sense on the planet.
• Adam teleported Alex and the others to the Supreme Intelligence’s room, where they confirmed the Soul Stone was on the ruler’s corpse.
• Alex tried to lift the corpse with steel sheets, sensed an unprecedented danger, and activated his Energy Shield and Teleportation.

An Antimatter Bomb devastates the Supreme Intelligence’s stronghold, leaving Alex’s fate uncertain as Adam, Loma, and Warlord face Ronan and a surrounding Kree army. Adam strikes Ronan, but the group prepares for a larger battle while Loma vows to avenge Alex.

• Adam shields Loma and Warlord from the explosion, but its shockwave throws them across the ruins and leaves them badly injured.
• Loma rushes toward the blast’s center to search for Alex, while Adam and Warlord follow; Ronan appears and reveals that he used an Antimatter Bomb.
• Loma finds no sign of Alex, and Adam collects the surviving Soul Stone as Ronan mocks the possibility that Alex escaped.
• Adam punches Ronan and sends him flying, then retreats beside Loma and Warlord as Kree soldiers and Accusers surround them.
• Adam warns Loma and Warlord to run if they get the chance, but Warlord prepares to fight and Loma unleashes her magic, vowing to avenge Alex.

Adam, Loma, and Warlord fought Ronan and the Kree army, but overwhelming enemy firepower forced them to risk Loma’s time-stopping Magic Light. Adam was still struggling toward the immobilized Ronan as Warlord and Loma neared defeat, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Loma and Warlord revealed their power, and Ronan ordered the Kree forces to attack Adam and his companions.
• Adam, Loma, and Warlord charged into the Kree ranks, prompting Ronan to order area bombardment that killed many Kree soldiers.
• When the Kree soldiers fled from the trio, Loma proposed capturing Ronan and revealed that Magic Light could prevent him from teleporting, but would leave her powerless.
• Loma cast Magic Light and imprisoned Ronan and the surrounding space, while Adam slowly advanced toward him.
• The Kree launched a fierce assault on Loma, and Warlord struggled to protect her as Adam remained nearly ten meters from Ronan.

Alex arrived in time to save Loma and Warlord, then destroyed the Kree forces on Kree-Lar and sent his allies to Planet Feather. Consumed by a chilling aura and anger, he returned to Kree-Lar and unleashed the Dark Phoenix’s flames on the planet.

• Alex appeared as Loma and Warlord were near death, and Ronan’s Universal Warhammer broke Adam’s confinement when the Kree began their attack.
• Alex shielded Loma and Warlord from the Kree barrage, while Ronan escaped into space after his attacks failed to harm Alex.
• Alex destroyed the Kree army with an energy-powered stomp and healed Adam, Loma, and Warlord before teleporting them to Planet Feather.
• Loma, Adam, and Warlord worried that Alex seemed changed as he left them and returned to Kree-Lar.
• Alex formed a colossal Dark Phoenix and sent it toward Kree-Lar, engulfing the planet in black flames.