Chapter Summaries

Chen Haoran fought Yakushi Kabuto but lost because he had little control or experience with his newly enhanced flame powers. S.H.I.E.L.D. placed him on its reserve list and decided to train and promote him as the superhero Blazing Hero.

• Nick Fury and Coulson watched Chen Haoran's fight and discussed his lack of combat experience and control over his powers.
• Chen Haoran attacked Yakushi Kabuto with pillars of fire and flame wings, but Yakushi Kabuto's explosive kunai knocked him down and injured him.
• Barton stopped the sparring match and declared Yakushi Kabuto the winner; Yakushi Kabuto then encouraged Chen Haoran and praised his potential.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that Chen Haoran wanted to become a superhero, and Grant Ward proposed using him as an example to attract other people with abilities.
• Nick Fury put Chen Haoran on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s reserve list, ordered training for him, and named him Blazing Hero.

Charlotte returned to Earth after Thor and he ended the rebellion on Jotunheim, leaving Asgard’s army to take over. Back at Charlotte Base, he reunited with Tsunade and learned about her research into a healing solution.

• Charlotte received check-in and mission rewards while Yakushi Kabuto reported on Chen Haoran and his research into Energy Blocks for S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Thor and Charlotte met the arriving Asgardian fleet, and Charlotte confirmed that the rebel forces on Jotunheim had been defeated.
• Sif and the Warriors Three organized Asgard’s troops to take over Jotunheim, while Thor arranged to return to Asgard and Charlotte chose to teleport back to Earth.
• Charlotte returned to Charlotte Base and learned that Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Shizune were there.
• Tsunade explained that she was studying Wax Bath to develop a healing solution, then left the laboratory with Charlotte for a walk.

Charlotte agreed to Eddie Brock’s long-sought interview and discussed his rise to wealth, his agency, and his charity. The interview continued as Eddie asked about Charlotte’s past and the Heart-to-Heart Charity Foundation.

• The Life One spacecraft lost control during reentry and crashed in a forest in East Malaysia.
• After learning that Eddie Brock was waiting outside the base, Charlotte agreed to meet him because he might later become Venom’s host.
• Eddie passed the base’s security inspection and rode a sightseeing cart to the Reception Room.
• Charlotte greeted Eddie and began the interview, explaining how he profited from Stark Industries shares and earned money through his agency.
• Eddie asked about Charlotte’s wealth and charity, and Charlotte said his childhood inspired him to help orphans through the Heart-to-Heart Charity Foundation.

Charlotte Doyle defended Qidian Orphanage and his paid rescue services in an interview with Eddie Brock, then asked the Red Queen to investigate Life Foundation while he trained. Eddie returned to Global Daily and was assigned to interview Carlton Drake about the safety of his rockets.

• Eddie Brock questioned Charlotte Doyle about Qidian Orphanage, his strength, and the Charlotte Agency’s paid rescues, and Charlotte answered his questions.
• Charlotte offered Eddie a job at his media company and then had Team 3 bring Might Guy back while he postponed fusing Naruto and Ao.
• Charlotte asked the Red Queen to investigate Life Foundation and continued training his chakra and Ninjutsu.
• Eddie told Barney Bushkin that he had interviewed Charlotte, and Barney doubled his bonus for securing the exclusive.
• Barney assigned Eddie to interview Carlton Drake and tell the public that the rocket crash was an accident, and Eddie reluctantly agreed.

Charlotte learned that the Symbiotes had arrived on Earth and decided to take advantage of the Life Foundation’s coming collapse. He ordered Ginny to short the company and prepare to acquire it, leaving her to ask whether something was wrong with the company.

• Charlotte reviewed Red Queen’s files on Carlton Drake and the Life Foundation, including footage of Life 1’s crash, and realized the Symbiotes had reached Earth.
• Charlotte planned to capture Riot for Orochimaru to study and to take over the Life Foundation, then summoned Ginny.
• Ginny left a High Table meeting, promised the elders a list of items they could trade for Charlotte Agency goods, and collected the Continental Hotels’ profits.
• Ginny returned to the base and told Charlotte that roughly $5 billion in liquid funds were available, with more than $10 billion possible through other measures.
• Charlotte gave Ginny the Life Foundation files and ordered her to short its stock before acquiring the company, prompting Ginny to ask what was wrong with it.

Ginny prepared to target the Life Foundation while Eddie Brock exposed its lethal experiments during an interview, costing him his job and damaging his relationship with Anne. The chapter left Eddie dismissed and alone as Ginny recruited victims’ families to pursue compensation against the company.

• Charlotte told Ginny about the Life Foundation’s future scandals, and Ginny agreed to prepare to take over the company when its stock fell.
• Eddie read confidential Life Foundation files on Anne’s computer and memorized details about deceased experiment volunteers.
• Eddie confronted Carlton Drake about the deaths during an interview, and Drake ended the interview and ordered Eddie blacklisted.
• Barney Bushkin fired Eddie after he could not provide a source or evidence for his accusations against Drake.
• Ginny offered the deceased volunteers’ families a legal team and promised to pursue substantial compensation from the Life Foundation.
• Anne accused Eddie of using her, returned his engagement ring, and left him.

Carlton Drake received three captured Symbiotes while Riot began life on Earth, and a week later Charlotte watched Chen Haoran become a public hero and Ginny’s campaign against the Life Foundation reach the news. The chapter left Drake’s response to the growing public pressure uncertain.

• Carlton Drake welcomed the convoy and marveled at the three Symbiotes delivered to the Life Foundation, while Riot escaped and took control of a body.
• Charlotte signed in for 50 servings of Delicious Ramen and watched news coverage of a burning Manhattan apartment building.
• Chen Haoran rescued the trapped residents, including a child named Connie, and introduced himself to reporter Ruth Kania as Blazing Hero.
• Ruth announced that New York had a new superhero, and Charlotte recognized Chen Haoran as the man created by his Physical Enhancement Serum.
• Charlotte watched Ginny’s hired plaintiffs accuse the Life Foundation of deceiving families and causing deaths, while media coverage also included criticism and defenses of the company.

Drake investigated the Symbiote after a lab mouse died during the first control experiment, while Charlotte Doyle spent Gold Coins on Ninja Fragments and used a blessing ritual before recruiting three batches of ninjas. The chapter left Charlotte ready to recruit Mei Terumi, Asuma Sarutobi, and Haku, whose arrival would greatly increase his Chakra and grant him three Kekkei Genkai.

• Drake ordered William to investigate and suppress news of the family's claim, then watched the Symbiote enter and kill a lab mouse before ordering the researchers to analyze the results.
• Eddie Brock drank after losing his job and breaking up with his fiancée, then passed out in his living room.
• Charlotte bought fragments for Jiraiya, Cursed Seal Kimimaro, Shisui Uchiha, and Might Guy from the System Store.
• Charlotte performed a blessing ritual and used thirty Ninja Recruitment Scrolls in three ten-pulls, gaining fragments for Mei Terumi, Asuma Sarutobi, Haku, Might Guy, and other ninjas.
• Charlotte found that Mei Terumi, Asuma Sarutobi, and Haku had reached the recruitment standard and anticipated gaining Chakra, Ice Style, Boil Style, and Lava Style by manifesting them.

Charlotte recruited Haku, Asuma Sarutobi, and Mei Terumi, then bought a deployment slot and triggered a system update that temporarily disabled most functions. After training for more than twenty days, he traveled to Asgard, where Odin offered his mission reward and Charlotte chose the Casket of Ancient Winters.

• Charlotte recruited Haku, gaining Ice Style Kekkei Genkai and increasing his chakra, then recruited Asuma Sarutobi and Mei Terumi, raising his chakra to 191 units.
• Charlotte spent 42,000 Gold Coins on a deployment slot, unlocked the Ninja Direct Purchase Shop, and triggered system maintenance after reaching one million Gold Coins in cumulative spending.
• Charlotte ordered Red Queen to have the ninjas pause accepting missions from The Continental Hotel after their current assignments, then trained to regain control of his increased chakra.
• More than twenty days later, Charlotte teleported to Asgard and met Odin, who thanked him for ending the rebellion in Jotunheim.
• Charlotte chose the Casket of Ancient Winters as his reward, and Odin summoned it into his hand.

Charlotte accepted the Casket of Ancient Winters from Odin and returned to Earth after learning that no Nine Realms pacification missions were currently planned. There, Eddie Brock, unable to find work after Life Foundation blacklisted him, accepted Charlotte’s renewed offer of employment.

• Odin gave Charlotte the Casket of Ancient Winters and warned him that it could freeze an entire planet, while Charlotte demonstrated his ice magic and stored the artifact.
• Charlotte asked Odin about the next mission, learned the other realms had been deterred by the swift pacification, and returned to Earth.
• Odin reflected on his declining health, Hela’s threat, and his plans for Thor and the rebellious Vanir before Thor arrived and learned Charlotte had left.
• Eddie watched news about Life Foundation’s troubles, confirmed he still could not find work, and remembered Charlotte’s offer.
• Eddie called Charlotte and accepted a job at his media company, and Charlotte told Red Queen to have Ginny send him an offer.

At the Life Foundation, Carlton Drake ordered human trials after a Symbiote successfully bonded with a rabbit, arguing the discovery could help humanity find a new home. The next day, Ginny met Drake as chairwoman of Sudis Industries and used the lawsuits and the Foundation’s funding problems to negotiate involvement in its second spacecraft project.

• Doctor Dora reported that the Symbiote had bonded successfully with a rabbit, and Drake concluded that compatible hosts could let humans survive on the Symbiote’s planet.
• Drake ordered human trials despite Dora Skirth’s ethical concerns, promising to handle the lawsuit and urging her to think of future generations.
• Drake learned that his secretary had arranged a meeting with the people behind the lawsuits and worried about funding a second Life spacecraft.
• Ginny arrived at the Life Foundation with lawyers, financial staff, and Werewolf members, representing Sudis Industries rather than Charlotte Doyle Stark Industries.
• Ginny confronted Drake with the list of thirty patients who had died in drug trials and warned that the lawsuits could further damage the company’s stock.
• Drake denied a funding shortfall, described the second spacecraft as necessary for continued exploration, and asked what investment or cooperation Ginny would offer.

Ginny lent Drake two billion dollars to build Life II in exchange for shares as collateral, while Eddie Brock relaunched his career and S.H.I.E.L.D. began searching for Steve Rogers. A month later, Life II had been built, but Drake’s Symbiote trials continued to kill many test subjects as a few hosts survived only briefly under observation.

• Ginny offered Drake a two-billion-dollar loan secured by Life Foundation shares, and Drake accepted after she agreed to withdraw the drug-trial lawsuit and stop suppressing his company’s stock.
• Eddie Brock joined Charlotte’s news media company and launched Brock Reports News, restoring his professional popularity.
• After S.H.I.E.L.D. found Captain America’s shield, Coulson asked Nick Fury to let him search for Steve Rogers, and Fury assigned him the mission while advising him to rely on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s own resources.
• With Ginny’s funding, Drake’s Life Foundation built the Life II spacecraft within a month.
• Drake resumed using fraudulent contracts to recruit homeless people for Symbiote trials, and many died while a small number survived the initial symbiosis.

Eddie Brock heard Doctor Dora Skirth’s account of Drake’s dangerous experiments combining humans with Symbiotes and agreed to help expose the Life Foundation by gathering proof. Dora sneaked Eddie into the laboratory while Team 8 followed them, and the chapter left Eddie entering the testing area to look for evidence.

• Doctor Dora Skirth approached Eddie Brock and warned him that Drake was recruiting homeless people for deadly experiments at the Life Foundation.
• Eddie apologized to Anne Weying and asked to start over, but Anne refused and went inside, where she cried over his apology.
• Team 8—Hinata Hyuga, Shino Aburame, and Kiba Inuzuka—continued watching Eddie under Kurenai Yuhi’s direction.
• Eddie called Dora and learned that Drake was testing whether humans could serve as hosts for extraterrestrial Symbiotes; he insisted on obtaining evidence before reporting it.
• Dora agreed to take Eddie into the Life Foundation laboratory, while Kiba Inuzuka overheard their conversation and Team 8 followed them.
• Dora distracted patrolling guards as Eddie entered the testing area, warning him not to touch anything.

Eddie Brock freed Maria from the Life Foundation’s A1 laboratory, but Venom entered his body and Maria died. As Eddie escaped with newfound abilities, Team 8 observed him, and Kurenai reported the mutation to Charlotte Doyle, who ordered continued surveillance.

• Eddie filmed the Life Foundation laboratories and found his homeless friend Maria imprisoned in the A1 laboratory.
• Eddie broke the laboratory glass to free Maria, but Venom left her body and entered Eddie’s, killing Maria.
• Eddie fled the Life Foundation, revealed his increased strength by defeating guards and tearing through a fence, and evaded the pursuing security team in the woods.
• Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Kurenai Yuhi observed Eddie’s escape from the treetops, and Kurenai told the others to keep watching.
• Eddie returned to his apartment, called Skirth, and left a message about the laboratory and his evidence against Drake.
• Kurenai reported Venom’s effects to Charlotte Doyle, who ordered Team 8 to continue observing Eddie and wait for instructions.

Drake learned that Maria had been killed and the Symbiote stolen, but he was encouraged by a test subject's recovery and ordered the experiments expanded. Eddie told Charlotte Doyle about Life Foundation's human experiments, and Charlotte arranged for a Ninja Squad to protect him and help expose Drake, while Kurenai Yuhi began the second phase of her mission.

• Drake arrived at the Life Foundation laboratory, learned the intruder had taken the Symbiote, and ordered the security team to find it.
• A doctor showed Drake that the test subject in A2 Laboratory had recovered, and Drake ordered the experiments expanded.
• Eddie checked his recorded evidence and called Charlotte Doyle to report Life Foundation's experiments and deaths.
• Charlotte offered Eddie protection in San Francisco or a return to New York, and Eddie chose to stay and record Drake's arrest.
• Charlotte called Kurenai Yuhi and ordered her to begin the mission to arrest Drake and recover a Symbiote.

After Team 8 received orders to rescue Eddie Brock and capture Carlton Drake’s Symbiote, Drake learned Eddie had taken the creature and sent security after him. Eddie began hearing Venom’s voice and called Anne Weying, who decided to go check on him and take him to a hospital.

• Kurenai Yuhi briefed Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame on rescuing Eddie and capturing Carlton Drake’s Symbiote.
• Eddie sent his recorded evidence to the email address he received and waited for support, then tried to call Anne Weying.
• Drake learned that his Symbiote was with Eddie, used Dora as a test subject, and ordered his security team to retrieve it.
• Venom spoke inside Eddie’s mind, and Eddie called Anne to describe the voice and his unusual symptoms.
• Anne decided to drive to Eddie and take him to a hospital.

Eddie bonded with the Symbiote, which took over his body to fight off Life Foundation security and help him escape. As Eddie struggled to accept Venom, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, and Kurenai watched and decided to keep gathering intelligence while protecting him.

• Eddie frightened his hippie neighbor into turning down the music, then ignored a warning in his mind and opened the door to Life Foundation security.
• The security captain demanded Mr. Drake's property, and Venom and Eddie argued over Eddie's raised hands while Hinata, Kiba, and Shino watched from nearby.
• Life Foundation security fired stun nets at Eddie, but Venom's black matter knocked down the attackers and shielded Eddie as he fled through a window.
• Drake watched the security footage and ordered Trevor to bring back Eddie and the Symbiote.
• Eddie reached his motorcycle but panicked at Venom's reflection, and Venom pinned him against a wall after Eddie called him a parasite.
• Hinata decided the group should keep watching Eddie and gather intelligence on the Life Foundation, while Kurenai approved of her judgment.

Team 8 rescued Eddie Brock from the Life Foundation’s attack and brought him to a rooftop, where Kurenai Yuhi introduced the squad and its mission to protect him and capture Carlton Drake. Hinata Hyuga then activated her Byakugan and addressed the alien life-form inside Eddie, asking it to come out.

• Trevor tracked Eddie with a suicide drone and sent more drones after him, but Venom helped Eddie evade the attacks until Trevor struck him with a car.
• Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame shielded the injured Eddie; Hinata treated him while Kiba defeated Trevor and the other security guards.
• Venom repaired Eddie’s broken bones, and Team 8 carried him across the rooftops to safety as police arrived.
• Kurenai Yuhi introduced herself and Team 8 to Eddie, explaining that they would protect him and arrest Carlton Drake.
• Venom mocked Eddie and commented on the power of the ninjas, prompting Hinata to activate her Byakugan and ask Venom to reveal himself.

Venom explained to Eddie and Team 8 that Riot could help bring millions of Symbiotes to Earth, while Drake ordered his security team to recapture Eddie after learning Doctor Dora and her Symbiote had died. Anne searched for Eddie and reached him by phone, where he told her Charlotte Doyle had sent people to protect him and that he intended to expose Carlton Drake.

• Venom told Eddie and Team 8 about the Symbiotes and warned that Riot might return with millions of them, prompting Hinata Hyuga to question him about Riot’s strength.
• Drake ordered his security team to find Eddie, then learned Doctor Dora and the Symbiote inside her had died and ordered Eddie captured alive.
• Riot arrived in San Francisco by plane and headed toward the Life Foundation.
• Anne found Schuler Apartment sealed by police, learned that bodies had been found throughout the city, and called Eddie.
• Eddie told Anne he was safe with protection from Charlotte Doyle and planned to expose Carlton Drake.

Riot took over Carlton Drake and started launching the Life II spacecraft to bring a symbiote army to Earth. Team 8 and Eddie, transformed into Venom, confronted him outside Life Foundation as the launch countdown began.

• Kurenai Yuhi gave Hinata a sealed Grimhold and assigned Team 8 to locate and capture Riot at Life Foundation.
• Riot possessed Drake, killing the little girl whose body he had used, and told Drake about the symbiote army on its home planet.
• Drake ordered the Life II launch and killed the scientists and staff who tried to stop him.
• Riot ran toward the launchpad as Team 8 arrived outside Life Foundation and prepared to fight.
• Venom told Eddie that Riot was almost impossible to defeat alone, while Eddie filmed the confrontation and said Charlotte Doyle was not needed.