The world's ending. Cap steps through an Eternal transport node, returning to pick up his favorite MILF. He reveals that the Eternals opened up their nodes all over Earth to transport everyone to the Eternals' city for shelter, until the end of the event.
Time to find out what are six human randos are doing
- Tom distrusts the random portal appearing before them, so he makes his family stay back and burn to death. Only when it's too late does he realize he made a mistake.
- Who the hell cares what Katrina is doing? At least she also dies.
- We don't get a lot of detail on Komali, but she also dies. Thinking of her deceased husband, she finds it a comfort at this point.
- Daniela and her mom make it to safety through a portal.
- Kenta is teleported, but can't find his parents. Jada comforts him.
Back on Eternalstopia, Starfox is being worshipped by his fans. The humans love the Eternals for saving them. Starfox turns his attention to Nightcrawler, who summarizes some things that happened in previous books, and says that things are going well so far. But then Capsays "The Progenitor will change tactics and we'll be screwed lmao." This turns out to be true: the Progenitor, having Tony Stark's genius brain, simply cracks open the Earth and goes for the Reality Loom deep inside.
Inside the Progenitor, our heroes and the Avengers continue to fight. Makkari tells Sersei that their god temporarily deactivated their protocols and sealed their firewalls. Now the telepaths can't control them, and they can act however they wish.
They find the Progenitor's core and discover a strange creature.
Since the creature doesn't acknowledge them, Jean takes the opportunity to whale on it. But surprise! Ajak to attack Jean from behind.
The Progenitor reaches the Eternal City. Nightcrawler says that they have an unusual mutant circuit that might help them fight. Starfox arms the humans in Uranos' armory with guns. They start shooting at the Celestial, who just casually blows them up. But this is all a distraction: a half-made Syne the Memetaur crawls from the shattered resurrection engines. She made a deal with Exodus to channel his peoples' power through her. Together, they fight back against the Progenitor.
Anyway, Memetaur gets burnt out and falls to the Progenitor a couple of pages later.
Back in the Celestial's core, Ajak complains that Jean is swift to kill, because mutants can just revive and inherit the Earth, while humanity dies today. Continuing to waste precious time, Tony chimes in and says that they should find a way to save everyone, including those who already died. Ajak says that they could convince the Progenitor that the judgment test is flawed.
While the Progenitor reflects on Ajak's words, Jean's fed up with this "maybe if we waste time and talk uwu" crap, and simply has Sinister shoot Ajak, because they need to stop wasting time and save who they can. She goes to attack the core monster, but it backhands her and reminds her that she failed the test. He then goes on a rant about how mutants are eager to kill because they have lower stakes, and some mutants cheer for human death the way humans cheer for theirs.
While the Progenitor ties to lecture, Sersei decides to broadcast her own message to the people of Earth. She reveals how the Eternals resurrection process works, and how humans are sacrificed for it. She apologizes for keeping it a secret and lets humanity judge her.
The Progenitor vaporizes her.
Tony says that Sersei was able to change her ways and fix her mistake. If an Eternal can change, anyone can. (Except for Tom, apparently.) Proggy says that she just gave them more proof that they should die. Ajak grabs some of Sersei's ashes and says that the Celestial doesn't deserve to make the call, it sucks as a god, and destroying them would make it fail in her eyes.
Jean decides to go down the empathy route with the Progenitor. She points out how it said she couldn't come back from her genocide. How would Progs live with itself for doing the same? Tony says some stuff, too. All of this convinces the Progenitor to sacrifice itself to press the reset button and do all of this death and destruction.
As it lay dying, it asks Ajak if it was a worthy god in the end. Seeing the Progenitor change and kill itself to correct its mistakes, she still fails it. Progs is actually cool for once, and asks her to do better.
The gang are back in the Arctic or w/e the Avengers base is. Progs is dead and in the ground. Tony checks his signals and sees that every life is back. Uranos' damage is still there, and the Eternals still have their war scars. But everything else is fine.
Ajak is still here, except now she's a giant woman.
Now acting as their new god, she explains that Sersei pulled a Jesus and bought the Eternals a chance at redemption.
Back to the humies.
- Tom is still awkward, but he's moving in a positive direction. Also, we see his wife and she appears to be a brown woman? Tom's genes must be strong as hell because his kid looks exactly like him and nothing like her.
- Since people remember how Katrina did nice things during a crisis, they feed her already-inflated ego. Katrina smugly eats a hotdog. The Progenitor (who says it can still narrate despite being dead) outright implies that she's going to be a worse person after this lmao.
- Arjun is still dead. Syne apologizes to Komali before bailing.
- Still the best girl, Daniela continues working.
- Jada wants to stay in bed all day, but gets a message that makes her get up.
- Kenta is with his parents again.
Meanwhile, Starfox forces Zuras to formally apologize to Storm and Nightcrawler for all the atrocities they committed against mutants on live television. Mostly because it's the only way will let him be Prime Eternal again. As a way of apology, he gives Arakko a weapon to summon Uranos for an hour, so he can fight for them. Druid, meanwhile, is now Uranos' new cellmate.
Humans have begun protesting the Eternals, who are now hated and feared.
Time for mutants to salvage this sh*tshow. Jean personally scans people for revival. The Phoenix Foundation works independently from Krakoa, and it prioritizes reviving the weak, the vulnerable, and the abandoned. Cyclops later points out that no one can say crap about the mutants now, because they're reviving sick kids; anyone who complains would look like an ass. Unfortunately, Orchis' help in fighting the Progenitors also made them very popular with humans, to the point where Nimrod has his own merch, in the form of a balloon.
Steve meets up with Jada and gives her the coffee he owed her. They sit together and ruminate on how the world sucks, but maybe they can learn to be better.
Celestial Ajak will judge people, but not over a single day. She will judge them over time, and is willing to fail them if the need arises. One thing's for sure, though: Hellion will always pass in her books.
The moral of the story: humans are an obnoxious blight upon society, and the only way for society to improve is to get rid of them. Long live the mutants!