The final confrontation with Gah Lak Tus erupts as the cosmic swarm reaches Earth. Reed Richards executes a desperate final plan based on the unique pattern vulnerabilities he uncovered in the entity’s structure.

Sue Storm and Ben Grimm join the ground-level defense inside the S.H.I.E.L.D. response perimeter, while Johnny Storm takes the fight to the sky. Captain Marvel (Mahr Vehl) launches the critical strike needed to disrupt the swarm on a molecular level.

Meanwhile, Misty Knight and the Vision work to cut off the last wave of psychic destabilization threatening to collapse human resistance completely.

With coordinated force, strategy, and sacrifice, the heroes manage to repel Gah Lak Tus — not destroying it, but forcing the swarm to break off and retreat, ending the Ultimate Universe’s first large-scale cosmic threat.