Chapter Summaries

Peter Parker brought his classmates to the Avengers' old base for their school dance, where the Avengers showed them around before the party began. Tony Stark chose Liz Allan as Peter’s partner for the first dance, leaving Peter stunned as the crowd watched.

• Peter led his classmates into the old Avengers base, where Iron Legion robots stopped students who wandered into restricted areas before F.R.I.D.A.Y. recognized Peter and cleared the warning.
• The students followed Peter through the portal, and Captain America gave them warning wristbands and a talk before Natasha, Scarlet Witch, and Hawkeye showed them around.
• The students enjoyed an archery contest, gifts, food, and dancing after Xia Yu sang to open the party.
• Tony declared the party open, praised Peter’s Stark Industries internship, and announced that Peter would lead the first dance.
• Tony selected Liz Allan as Peter’s dance partner, and Liz accepted while Peter stood frozen in surprise.

Peter postponed confessing to Liz and traveled to Washington for a competition, but he left the hotel to investigate a suspected cargo theft. He confronted Vulture alongside an armored stranger, whose potato projectile struck Vulture’s wing and left everyone stunned.

• Peter arrived in Washington with Ned and used the tracker to locate the suspected hideout.
• Peter left the hotel, passed up Liz’s invitation to swim, and followed the moving target to a gas station.
• Peter watched Vulture use an energy doorway to enter a Department of Disaster Reconstruction and Recovery truck and met an armored stranger who agreed to help.
• Peter stole Vulture’s bag as he emerged, then tried to web him while the stranger aimed an external weapon at him.
• The stranger fired a potato that smashed against Vulture’s wing, astonishing Peter and Vulture.

Harry and Spider-Man were trapped together after Vulture escaped, and they became friends while sharing their histories and ambitions. Harry planned to move to New York after his Academic Decathlon, and Spider-Man began imagining introducing him to his other friends.

• Harry and Spider-Man tried to stop Vulture, but he knocked them into a car before escaping through the energy portal.
• Spider-Man asked who Harry was, and Harry revealed his identity and his homemade Iron Man-style Armor.
• The two discovered they were trapped in a secret supply base with no communications signal, so they talked and became close friends.
• Harry told Spider-Man he had secretly learned about nanotechnology and Iron Man's Armor, then built a scrap-metal suit with a potato gun.
• Harry explained that Thor's financial support had changed his family's circumstances, and Tony had offered to help him attend high school in New York after the Academic Decathlon.
• Spider-Man thought about introducing Harry to Tate and Ned, and formed a bold idea.

Spider-Man and Harry rushed to the Washington Monument after Harry identified the alien energy block as a dangerous Chitauri weapon, but it passed through security and caused an incident. Afterward, Spider-Man planned a Young Avengers Alliance with Tate, Harry, and Ned, then found a 3D printer labeled as Tony Stark's latest product in their new base.

• Harry identified the alien energy source as a Chitauri weapon that could explode if exposed to radiation, so he flew with Spider-Man toward the Washington Monument.
• Spider-Man tried to warn Ned about the energy block, but Liz took Ned's phone, and the block went through the security scanner.
• Xia Yu and Tony watched news footage of Spider-Man and Harry, discussed the young heroes, and agreed to keep an eye on them rather than intervene.
• Spider-Man decided to form a Young Avengers Alliance with Tate, Harry, and Ned, and chose a New York sewer location for their base.
• Spider-Man brought Harry to the base and found an automated 3D printer labeled as Tony Stark's latest product.

Spider-Man and Harry secretly used the Avengers’ printer to build Harry a blue-and-white suit of Armor, while Xia Yu and the others watched their progress. As Harry urged Spider-Man to print a suit for Tate next, Natasha turned to Xia Yu.

• Spider-Man and Harry decided to print Harry’s Armor from their redesigned blueprints and planned to power it with Tesseract energy blocks.
• Ant-Man gave Spider-Man a reactor, and Harry and Spider-Man began using the printer.
• Xia Yu reassured Tony that Harry and Spider-Man should be allowed to choose their paths under the Avengers’ watch, while Tony revealed he had installed a backdoor and danger alarm in the equipment.
• Harry printed and put on his blue-and-white Armor, which emphasized kinetic power and omitted many high-powered weapons.
• Harry reminded Spider-Man that they still had to print Tate’s black nanosuit, which included flight features and a brainwave-control prototype for the Yaka Arrow.
• Natasha looked at Tate’s nearly finished suit on the screen and told Xia Yu it was his turn.

Xia Yu arranged for Spider-Man to help choose and print weapons suited to Tate’s mental abilities. After the equipment was ready, Spider-Man, Tate, and Harry discussed their plans for the Young Avengers’ first operation.

• Xia Yu called Spider-Man at the base and asked him to print one of three weapon designs as a gift for Tate.
• Spider-Man and Harry suspected the Avengers had noticed their activities, but neither wanted to call Xia Yu or Tony Stark; Spider-Man suggested asking Thor, prompting the Avengers to tease Thor.
• Spider-Man chose Tony and Shuri’s Gothic-style nanotech longswords, which could function as two swords, a greatsword, or flying blades.
• After the weapons finished printing, Spider-Man, Tate, and Harry held a secretive discussion and prepared for their first operation after setting up a ground-level base.

Spider-Man, Harry, Ned, and Tate established the Young Avengers Alliance and tracked down a lead on Vulture’s next arms deal. As Vulture prepared to oversee the deal before retiring, the young heroes hid aboard the cruise boat, unaware of each other’s presence.

• Spider-Man brought Tate to the team’s newly completed underground base, where Ned greeted him and the group showed off their @ logo.
• The Young Avengers Alliance chose Vulture as its first major target and used footage from Spider-Man’s Armor to identify a thug who had bought weapons.
• The thug revealed that an arms deal would take place aboard a Hudson River sightseeing cruise boat in three days.
• Spider-Man and Harry boarded the boat early while Tate waited nearby in his Armor.
• Vulture decided to oversee the important deal himself before leaving town with his wife and child, and he disguised himself as a tourist.
• The young heroes and Vulture’s people searched the boat for one another without realizing who else was aboard.

Spider-Man, Harry, and Tate raided a weapons deal aboard a cruise ship, but Vulture arrived in full gear just as the Young Avengers questioned the captured smugglers.

• Ned spotted suspicious men at the ship’s stern and alerted Spider-Man and the others from the hidden base.
• Spider-Man and Harry put on their Armor and surrounded four smugglers, while Tate flew overhead as backup.
• Spider-Man webbed the smugglers to the railing and found alien-tech firearms and US dollars in their bags.
• One smuggler mocked Harry as the “Tinplate Guerrilla Squad,” and Harry fired a warning blast at the deck.
• Vulture flew over the cars behind the group in full gear.

Tate, Harry, and Spider-Man fought Vulture aboard a cruise ship, exposing their lack of coordination before Spider-Man helped them capture him. Vulture escaped after activating a weapon that cut the ship in half, leaving the young heroes facing a disaster at sea.

• Vulture freed four captives, knocked Spider-Man and Harry into the river, and deduced that Spider-Man was Peter Parker before threatening the heroes’ families.
• Tate attacked Vulture with a returning flying sword, then split it into two swords while Harry harassed Vulture with his laser cannon.
• Spider-Man identified the heroes’ coordination problem, webbed Vulture’s ankles, and helped Tate and Harry strike both wing propellers so they could pull Vulture onto the deck.
• Vulture threw down a purple energy block that fired lasers and sliced the cruise ship in half.
• Vulture escaped on his damaged wings after warning Peter Parker, leaving Tate, Harry, and Spider-Man aboard the splitting ship.

Spider-Man, Harry, and Tate worked together to keep a damaged cruise ship from splitting apart and brought it safely to shore. The passengers cheered, but Spider-Man collapsed from exhaustion and Tate fell into the river.

• Spider-Man webbed the cruise ship’s two halves together, but the strain began snapping his webs.
• Harry used his Armor’s thrusters to brace one half of the ship, while Tate used his psychic power to hold up the other.
• Spider-Man joined them in pulling the ship together, and the three teenagers kept it intact as it neared the opposite bank.
• Yondu watched Tate’s feat and worried that he had overdrawn his potential, but Xia Yu reassured him and said Tate’s psychic power would grow stronger.
• The passengers disembarked safely and cheered for the three heroes, while Spider-Man collapsed on deck and Tate fell headfirst into the river.

After Spider-Man, Harry, and Tate disobeyed orders to fight Vulture, Xia Yu, Tony, and Captain America scolded them but agreed to let the Young Avengers operate under strict rules. The boys were tasked with capturing Vulture on their own as a test, with their team and equipment at stake.

• Xia Yu, Tony, and Captain America confronted Spider-Man, Harry, and Tate about their unauthorized fight with Vulture, criticizing their mistakes while acknowledging that they saved the cruise ship.
• Tate’s request to use the bathroom broke the silence, and the adults’ discussion gradually became more relaxed as they praised and scolded the boys.
• Xia Yu used F.R.I.D.A.Y. to locate Ned and pulled him through a portal, then was embarrassed when a beggar recognized him from an old kiss with Natasha.
• Xia Yu set rules requiring the young heroes to stay in a designated area, report major crimes, and keep their grades up, with Tate’s studies assessed at the base.
• Captain America approved the Young Avengers, while Tony challenged them to capture Vulture without help or lose their team, equipment, and chance to be superheroes.
• Tony told Ned that passing the test would make him an Avengers reserve in logistics, with a salary.

As Spider-Man prepared for his first homecoming date, the Avengers helped him train and choose an outfit, while Vulture remained under surveillance. Peter arrived at Liz’s house with flowers, only to find Vulture answering the door.

• Tony had Aunt May move to the compound for her safety, where she settled in and worked as a tour guide.
• Xia Yu reassured Spider-Man that the Avengers had plans to protect his identity and arranged combat training for the teenagers.
• T’Challa visited to invite Xia Yu and the others to his coronation, hinting that Xia Yu could obtain the Heart-Shaped Herb.
• Spider-Man told the Avengers that Liz had accepted his invitation to the homecoming dance, and the women helped him prepare.
• Spider-Man arrived at Liz’s house with flowers, and Vulture opened the door and greeted him.

Peter Parker's first date with Liz was overshadowed by discovering that her father was Vulture, the criminal he had been pursuing. Vulture drove them to school and privately checked that Liz still knew nothing about Peter's superhero identity.

• Peter froze when Vulture opened the door, but Vulture calmly told him to act normal around Liz.
• Liz came downstairs in a red dress, and Vulture coached Peter through complimenting her and giving her flowers.
• Vulture drove Liz and Peter to school while Peter remained tense and watched him.
• Vulture asked Liz to get out so he could speak privately with Peter, then asked whether Liz knew about their secret conflict.
• Peter said he did not know what Vulture meant, and Vulture concluded that Liz knew nothing about his superhero identity.

Vulture told Spider-Man how losing his cleanup contract pushed him into crime, then asked him to let his family go free. Spider-Man struggled with whether to expose Vulture and hurt Liz, and Tony and Xia Yu arrived through a portal as he sat alone on a rooftop.

• Vulture explained how the government took over his cleanup job, rejected his appeals, and left him desperate to support his family.
• Vulture told Spider-Man he had decided to quit and asked him not to hold his past against him or target his family.
• Spider-Man went to the dance with Liz but remained distracted, and Liz refused his offer to take her home.
• Spider-Man left Ned to think alone, put on his Armor, and swung high through Queens to escape his troubled thoughts.
• Tony and Xia Yu opened a blue portal beside Spider-Man as he sat on a rooftop.

Spider-Man struggled to decide what should happen to Vulture, so Xia Yu and Tony arranged a supervised three-year house arrest in AC City, with Vulture’s former crew assessed and the dangerous members sent to prison. Vulture’s family learned the truth and forgave him, while Liz avoided Peter, who later visited Vulture and came to feel he had made the right choice.

• Tony offered to audit government accounts and compensate people harmed by unpaid compensation, then left Vulture’s fate to Spider-Man.
• Spider-Man admitted he could not judge Vulture and worried both about Vulture returning to crime and about his own feelings for Liz.
• Xia Yu and Tony placed Vulture and his men under house arrest in AC City for three years, with Avengers surveillance and community work; men judged dangerous were taken into FBI custody.
• Vulture told his wife and daughter the truth, and Liz forgave him, though she transferred schools and continued avoiding Spider-Man.
• Peter visited Vulture, apologized, and heard Vulture explain that he felt relieved his family knew the truth and had forgiven him.
• Vulture thanked Peter, and Peter felt reassured that he had made the right choice.

Xia Yu learned that Thanos and his legions had vanished, leaving him uncertain about the coming threat, and went to seek the Ancient One’s counsel. She asked him to kill her most outstanding student, Doctor Strange.

• Xia Yu learned from Star-Lord that no one had heard of Thanos or his legions since their last reported attack six months earlier.
• Star-Lord said Thanos might be dead or hiding, and that Gamora’s search of his likely hideouts had found them deserted.
• Xia Yu told Star-Lord to keep searching and alert him to any news, then reflected on his responsibility to protect his friends and the Avengers.
• Xia Yu went to the Ancient One at Mount Everest to discuss his concerns about the future.
• The Ancient One asked Xia Yu to kill Doctor Strange, her most outstanding student.

The Ancient One took Xia Yu to the secret Time Sanctum after explaining that she had been told to kill her successor, Strange. She revealed that the altar’s guidance had named Strange as the person she should kill, while the future had become impossible for her to see clearly.

• The Ancient One told Xia Yu that she had been instructed to kill Strange, and Xia Yu demanded to know why.
• The Ancient One led Xia Yu through a portal and explained that a hidden fourth Sanctum existed beneath Kamar-Taj, known only to Sorcerers Supreme.
• The Ancient One opened the ancient Sanctum’s doors with the Time Stone and showed Xia Yu its altar, books, and magical implements.
• The Ancient One said the future had grown hazy since Xia Yu appeared and had become impossible to see clearly for six months.
• The Ancient One explained that the altar did not predict the future but told her what to do, and that it had told her to kill Strange.

Xia Yu and Ancient One used the altar to seek guidance about Doctor Strange, but Xia Yu’s enormous energy output transformed the cave into a sealed, separate space containing a password-locked courtyard. Trapped with only one incorrect attempt left before the space explodes, Xia Yu recognized the displayed numbers as his former-life ID number.

• Ancient One explained that the altar could guide them through a crisis and asked Xia Yu to channel energy into it to seek another way to deal with Doctor Strange.
• Xia Yu poured energy into the altar for hours until the pillar and runes glowed, transforming the cave into a separate grassy space with an ancient courtyard.
• Xia Yu and Ancient One failed to force their way through the courtyard gate or escape using portals, and they discovered that the gate required an eighteen-digit password.
• After Xia Yu entered two incorrect passwords, the gate warned that a third consecutive mistake would make the entire space explode.
• Xia Yu examined the displayed digits and realized they matched his ID number from his previous life.

Xia Yu entered his previous-life ID number as the courtyard’s password, bringing the space to life, and he and Ancient One entered to explore it. An old man appeared and revealed that he had been waiting for Xia Yu, a transmigrator.

• Xia Yu entered his previous-life ID number, and the space suddenly seemed to come alive.
• Ancient One joined Xia Yu in opening the gate and exploring the courtyard.
• An old man appeared with a basin of jujubes and invited Xia Yu and Ancient One to sit.
• The old man said the space was separate from the universe and that he had remained there to wait for someone.
• The old man identified Xia Yu as the transmigrator he had been waiting for.

Xia Yu learned that Tmall was only an early guide and that a created spiritual afterimage had been waiting to help him remove it. The old man explained that Xia Yu needed to absorb the Time Stone and strengthen his soul origin before fully absorbing the Soul Stone, leaving Asgard as the next key source of power.

• The old man revealed that he knew Xia Yu was a transmigrator and asked what he would do now that Thanos had disappeared.
• The old man explained that Tmall had only guided Xia Yu at first, then removed the system from Xia Yu and said he had no authority to explain who caused the transmigration.
• The old man said Xia Yu had absorbed four Infinity Stones and could absorb the Time Stone, then warned him not to seek out Thanos before Ragnarok brought Thanos to Asgard.
• The old man explained that fully copying the Soul Stone's origin required a powerful soul origin and energy from things created by the universe's laws.
• The old man named Asgard as something Xia Yu needed to absorb.