Well, the full run, if you want read it, is: the Hickman "Avengers" and "New Avengers" series, all of them!!!
If you want now only the base point: The Multiverse have been destroyed. An incredible war between the "Ivory King" and "Rabhum Alhal, The Great Destroyer" start to make the multiverse collapse. Universe start to clashing each others, point of collision: Earth. The heroes, in different way, try to stop that, but all fails. A group of Monsters, guided by Namor and called The Cabal, start to destroy different earth, hoping to stop the collision [Namore hope that, the others make that only for fun...]. Even they Fail. Some others make extreme choice [i.e. Doctor Strange guide a group of interdimensional Magic Priest do destroy earths itself] but all fail. In the end, we discover that the Ivory Kings are The Byonders, and they are trying an experiment: cancell all the creation. But we discover also that Rabhum Alhal was Doctor Doom! With the power of the Molecolar Man he is trying to Stop the Ivory King, running throught time and space to collect powers, followers and find a solution.
In the end, Everything Ends! The last two universe collapse [616 and 1610] one on the others. Only two Lift Raft, incredibly powerfull ships created by the best mind of the earth, try to escape and go... nowhere, since with the end of all, there will be no other place to go. In one Lift Raft, we have Reed Richard [616] and a bunch of Heroes. In the Others, we have Reed Richard [Ultimate] and The Cabal. But while everything end, Doctor Doom try his last attempt to fight the Beyonders [with the aid, perhaps, of Doctor Strange]. He suceed! In some unknow and still untold way, he stop the beyonders and take [some of?] their power. He try to save something of a multiverse that exist no more.
And so he create the Battleworld, the last planet on the multiverse, floating into the void, with no stars in the sky and only an "artificial" sun. Each domanin of Battleworld is take from a different universe. Doom [now with God-like powers] and Doctor Strange "rewrite" the history of every domanis, so for the inhabitants of the Battleworld, things are always been in this way. And Doom pose a rule of "non contact" between domain [with some exception].
But somewhere, burried in the earth of the Last Planet of the Multiverse, there are the Two Last Life Raft, the only remains of the Old Universe.
Here start Secret Wars, the "main story", and we have an incredible numbers of new series. More or less one for each domain! "Age of Apocalypse" is only the series of the Kingdom of Apocalypse....
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