new reality by creating a door labelled 'Next', although he unsure as to whether he will change again on the other side. Defenders Loki ended up in the Sixth Cosmos, the iteration of the Multiverse before the one he left. There he met Taaia, hero of that world and mother of Galactus. Loki saw something on the Outside that he believed would threaten the Eighth Cosmos, the Multiverse that was brought back after the incursions. Upon realizing that Verity's ghost was not with him, he used his staff to check up on her in the Eighth Cosmos and was pleased to see her well. He then went to check up on Asgard but saw Odin's funeral, to which he expressed his remorse; however, he also saw himself in the Eighth Cosmos, despite the fact that he never died nor entered the Eighth Cosmos. He deduced that he must be time-displaced, and at some point, he would go back to the start of the Eighth Cosmos and become the Loki he saw. This angered him because he believed his "new" incarnation was a reversion of his old self, and was scared that his future would just be his past on repeat. Nevertheless, he became she and declared that she would have one more adventure before she goes back. Taaia told him she had a device that would allow her to warn Doctor Strange of this potential danger but he suggested instead that he could piggyback of this device with his magic to make a portal to the present. Loki and Taaia of Taa went through one of her portals and ended up in Kadesh, the Blue Marvel's underwater science fortress. They were summoned along with other members of the Defenders by the then-late Doctor Strange's tarot cards possessed by Eternity, and were sent to the Neutral Zone. Eternity commanded the Defenders to find out about this mysterious threat and opened a way to the Outside. Along the way, she met the Beyonders in the Beyond; was attacked by the Phoenix Force for being time-displaced in the White Hot Room; and repaired her horn with the Eternity Mask and used it call upon the Queen of Nevers in the Land of Couldn't-Be-Shouldn't-Be. Finally, the Defenders reached the House of Ideas. Loki saw her future self look at her enter, which Loki assumed it meant her plan was going to succeed because the