The Goddess brings rapture to the universe by destroying all life within it. This has been an illusion by Warlock, however, and he battles alongside Thanos and Professor X to stop the Goddess. Realizing that the Goddess planned on bringing death to the cosmos, the heroes who followed her desert her cause. Warlock traps the Goddess in the Soul Gem. Thanos destroys the Cosmic Egg. Earth's heroes return to their regular lives of turmoil and violence. The Infinity Watch are mistrusted and ostracized from their fellow heroes and return to Monster Isle. Thanos gives the last Cosmic Cube to Mephisto.