Chapter Summaries

Yotsuki Dana searched the East Coast for Father and the others, then followed Nick Fury to New Jersey after a report of a flying lightning-wielder. The three Spider-Men battled Electro Max at a power plant, where a monstrous Venom appeared as another sign that the universe was growing more chaotic.

• Yotsuki Dana searched major East Coast cities overnight but found no trace of Father or the others.
• Nick Fury found Dana in a Quinjet and showed him blurry footage of a lightning-wielding flyer in New Jersey; Dana agreed to investigate.
• Three Spider-Men rode cargo trucks toward the reported location and reached a power plant where Electro Max was absorbing electricity.
• The three Spider-Men overwhelmed Electro Max, who threatened that they would have to fight alone if his ally did not appear.
• A massive Venom leaped onto the power plant's cooling tower, and the Spider-Men prepared to face it.

Dana captured four black monsters and killed Electro after they overwhelmed the Spider-Men, then met a silver-white armored figure who introduced himself as Tony Stark. The newcomer said he was not the Tony Stark the Spider-Man knew.

• The black monster and Electro gained the advantage over the three Spider-Men, while Dana and Nick Fury watched from above.
• Falcon arrived and attacked the black monster, but three more black monsters emerged from the woods and threatened the heroes.
• Dana killed Electro with Lightning Release Chakra and captured all four monsters in multicolored bands of Sage Lightning Chakra.
• Dana kept the compressed monsters as trophies, intending to take them back to the Shinobi World for research.
• A silver-white armored figure arrived, revealed an unfamiliar face, and introduced himself as Tony Stark, though not the one the young Spider-Man knew.

Doctor Strange and the heroes discussed the multiverse spell, Dana’s missing family, and the danger of Venom while Dana refused to surrender the Box of the Vishanti until his family was found. As the group considered White Iron Man’s offer of Extremis Virus, a kunai emerged from the Light Ring.

• White Iron Man explained that Venom had come from his universe, where the Symbiotes had overwhelmed cities, and warned that they could reproduce and parasitize living creatures.
• Doctor Strange apologized to Dana and revealed that he knew Dana was a planetary ruler; at a rooftop café, Strange confirmed that he could not control the Light Ring.
• Dana refused to return the Box of the Vishanti until Strange helped find his missing family, insisting that Strange take responsibility for the spell’s consequences.
• White Iron Man described the devastation Venom had caused in his universe and offered Extremis Virus, which he said could prevent parasitism and enhance the heroes’ physical abilities.
• At the underground laboratory, the Light Ring trembled and ejected a kunai, prompting the researchers to alert Nick Fury.

Orochimaru developed a machine that let nonliving objects pass through the Light Ring, and the Shinobi World sent supplies and a message to Yotsuki Dana in New York. Dana confirmed that items could travel from the Shinobi World to the Marvel World but not back, and the chapter ended with him discovering the latest delivery contained one hundred thousand Explosive Tags.

• Orochimaru used a machine to coat a Kunai with simulated energy, allowing it to pass through the Light Ring, but living things still could not cross.
• Minato Namikaze sent his Flying Thunder God Kunai through the Light Ring, but he could not sense its mark on the other side.
• Nick Fury told Yotsuki Dana that something had emerged from the Light Ring, and Dana left the rooftop café to investigate.
• Maria Hill showed Dana two Kunai and a Sealing Scroll from the Shinobi World; the scroll asked whether he was safe and warned that the Light Ring might change in about two and a half days.
• Dana sent a Kunai and then a newly arrived scroll toward the Light Ring, but both remained in the Marvel World, confirming that transport was one-way.
• Dana opened the latest scroll and found that it contained one hundred thousand Explosive Tags.

Dana and Doctor Strange used bloodline magic to search for Dana’s missing relatives, first checking Earth and then the multiverse. The search found no location, but it captured a strange sound that seemed to come from someone drowning.

• In the Shinobi World, Lord Dodai ordered Orochimaru to prepare more supplies and equipment for Dana, while Orochimaru worked on ways to send people through the portal.
• Dana received eight Sealing Scrolls through the Light Ring and explained their storage function to Hill.
• Doctor Strange told Dana that Nick Fury, Peter Parker, and the white Iron Man were searching the wilderness for Visitors from Another World and Venom.
• At the New York Sanctum, Doctor Strange used Dana’s blood to search for his relatives and found that none were on Earth.
• Doctor Strange cast a stronger spell to search across dimensions, and after a lengthy search, it produced the sound “Glub glub glub glub.”

Nick Fury assembled superheroes in the wilderness near Lake Ontario to monitor visitors from other worlds, capturing a hostile armored arrival and guarding a more cooperative businessman. As the camp settled in, Fury had Ant-Man secretly watch White Iron Man while he worried about Earth’s fragile state and the Light Ring’s pending return to normal.

• Nick Fury gathered the three Spider-Men and several superheroes near Lake Ontario to watch for visitors, while White Iron Man befriended the group and drew Fury’s suspicion.
• A hot-tempered man in a rhinoceros-shaped mechanical suit attacked Winter Soldier, but Hawkeye, Ant-Man, and the others disabled the suit and Nick Fury took him into custody.
• A suited businessman claimed to be a philanthropist and a friend of Spider-Man from his universe, so Nick Fury kept him under guard while they tried to verify his identity.
• The heroes learned that Doctor Octopus had recovered his conscience and rationality after his chip problem was fixed, and he agreed to cooperate.
• Nick Fury questioned White Iron Man about the Extremis Virus, then asked Ant-Man to secretly keep watch while White Iron Man barbecued.
• Nick Fury reflected on Earth’s weakened forces and awaited the Light Ring’s return to normal in a little over forty hours.

Doctor Strange and the Kamar-Taj sorcerers investigated the Light Ring and discovered that magic and Chakra had fused, while Dana received a reassuring message from Yotsuki Mao. Before dawn, a black substance began transforming New York’s addicts and homeless people into monsters, and the spreading threat grew.

• Doctor Strange gathered Wong and Kamar-Taj sorcerers to study the Light Ring, while Maria Hill spoke with Dana.
• Dana used his lie detection and realized Maria Hill was another fake, but decided not to expose her.
• A scroll arrived through the Light Ring, and Doctor Strange discovered it carried rapidly fading energy that Dana identified as a Chakra variation.
• Doctor Strange theorized that magic, Chakra, and spatial power had fused to mutate the Light Ring, and the sorcerers began trying to imitate it with magic.
• Dana read Yotsuki Mao’s encrypted message, which said the family was safe for now and that Orochimaru was making progress.
• A black liquid swallowed addicts in a New York alley and transformed them into monsters that spread through the city, targeting addicts and homeless people.

Yotsuki Dana and the mages found a way to send a letter through the Light Ring, but their breakthrough was interrupted by a missile and news of a widespread Venom outbreak. In the wilderness, the White Iron Man overwhelmed Doctor Banner and sent Venom monsters to attack him.

• Doctor Strange and the mages linked a vase, an axe, and spellbooks to help Dana send an encrypted letter through the Light Ring.
• Maria Hill learned Venom had appeared in New York and discovered that Nick Fury had lost contact.
• A missile flew through Doctor Strange’s portal, but Yotsuki Dana caught it and hurled it back before the portal closed.
• A New York Sanctum mage and Maria Hill reported that Venom attacks were spreading across the city.
• The White Iron Man battered Doctor Banner, boasted that he would take over the world, and ordered the surrounding Venom monsters to attack him.

As Venom monsters devastated New York, the White Iron Man arrived and defeated them, then announced that most superheroes had died and the Symbiotes would return. He presented the Extremis Virus as a Symbiote Vaccine and named himself Ultimate Iron Man, becoming the city’s new hope.

• Doctor Strange left to investigate while Yotsuki Dana stayed behind, aware that hundreds of Venom monsters were attacking New York.
• Venom monsters overwhelmed the police, National Guard reinforcements, and civilians, causing widespread deaths and destruction.
• The White Iron Man arrived carrying advanced technology, drove off the monsters, and rescued people across New York with more than a dozen white suits of armor.
• At a press conference, the White Iron Man announced that most superheroes had died and that the Symbiotes had gone into hiding beneath the city.
• The White Iron Man claimed the superheroes had rejected his Symbiote Vaccine, presented a tube of Extremis Virus, and proposed vaccinating ten thousand volunteers.
• The White Iron Man introduced himself as Ultimate Iron Man, and the frightened public embraced him as New York’s savior.

Dana questioned why reports of New York’s battle ignored the mages and learned that the symbiotes had avoided media buildings, while White Iron Man dominated the news. After White Iron Man identified Dana as a stowaway from another world, reporters stormed Dana’s hideout to confront him.

• Dana noticed that newspapers credited White Iron Man with saving New York but did not mention the New York Sanctum’s mages.
• Dana asked whether the Sorcerer Supreme had returned, and the young female mage said he was missing but might be fighting elsewhere.
• A rookie agent discovered that the symbiotes had avoided every newspaper office and television station during the attack.
• The rookie agent told Dana that reporters had gathered outside to find him.
• Reporters forced their way into Dana’s basement after broadcasting claims that he was a dangerous stowaway hiding a powerful artifact.
• A blonde reporter reached Dana first and asked whether he was the stowaway from another world.

Yotsuki Dana faced reporters who accused him of being an illegal immigrant, while a badly injured Peter Parker arrived and exposed White Iron Man’s attack on New York’s heroes. After the reporters sided with White Iron Man and he appeared, Dana stopped Peter from rushing into a trap and struck White Iron Man through several buildings.

• Yotsuki Dana threatened the intrusive reporters with his laser until Peter Parker, badly injured, stood in front of him and urged him not to attack ordinary people.
• Peter Parker told the reporters that White Iron Man had commanded the Symbiotes, attacked New York, and killed nearly all the superheroes, but the reporters accused him of lying and defended Ultimate Iron Man.
• Yotsuki Dana spotted White Iron Man watching from a nearby rooftop and realized he was using the media to present himself as a savior.
• White Iron Man arrived to a warm welcome from the reporters, while Peter Parker tried to attack him in revenge for the dead heroes.
• Yotsuki Dana restrained Peter, told him that heroes had to endure misunderstanding, then revealed his true size and slapped White Iron Man through several buildings.

Yotsuki Dana fought White Iron Man, whose Symbiote Armor could absorb energy and replicate itself, while the media portrayed Dana as a villain and White Iron Man as a savior. White Iron Man concealed his killing of civilians and returned to the battle with eight armored duplicates as the crowd cheered for him.

• Dana destroyed reporters’ cameras and fought White Iron Man, redirecting his miniature rockets with magnetic control and testing his armor’s ability to absorb Chakra.
• White Iron Man revealed his Symbiote Armor and traded blows with Dana, but Dana’s shinobi combat skills gave him the advantage.
• Dana struck White Iron Man with an azure Rasengan, sending him crashing through a skyscraper.
• White Iron Man killed a worker who had witnessed his crash and used his armor to transform the office staff into eight duplicates.
• White Iron Man returned to the battle as news coverage praised him and the crowd shouted for Dana’s death.

Yotsuki Dana defeated White Iron Man and exposed his scheme after the crowd and Peter Parker mistook Dana for the villain. Dana urged Peter to become a leader rather than remain trapped in the superhero cycle, then handed him a kunai and left him to decide White Iron Man’s fate.

• White Iron Man merged his Symbiote Armors into an Anti-Hulk Form, injured Dana, and turned civilians against him while demanding the Box of the Vishanti.
• Peter Parker defended Dana, but Dana stopped the rubble thrown by the crowd and told Peter that leaders could change what superheroes could not.
• Dana activated Sage Lightning Armor, overwhelmed White Iron Man, and defeated the Symbiote monsters with more than a thousand Shadow Clones and a Great Lightning Dragon Technique.
• White Iron Man offered to serve Dana and threatened him with knowledge of Doctor Strange’s location, but Dana rejected the offer.
• Dana challenged Peter to choose between acting as a hero who would spare White Iron Man or becoming a leader willing to change the cycle, and placed a kunai in Peter’s hand.

Dana and Peter Parker defeated White Iron Man, whose death freed people controlled by the Extremis Virus, while Doctor Strange and Hill returned from captivity. The survivors regrouped in the basement, where Dana healed Doctor Strange, and Peter hesitated to mention his own injuries.

• Peter Parker rejected killing White Iron Man out of hatred, then decided he had to stop him and struck his throat with his nano armor.
• White Iron Man survived and tried to flee, but Dana petrified him and crushed his head, killing him for good.
• White Iron Man's death caused people he had controlled with the Extremis Virus to transform, while Doctor Strange and Hill returned through a portal.
• Captain Marvel arrived and learned Talos might be dead, and the group later gathered in the basement.
• Dana healed Doctor Strange with a Healing Tag, while Peter hesitated to mention that his ribs were broken.

Dana negotiated with Carol to trade Healing Tags for spaceships while Doctor Strange planned to use the Box of the Vishanti to repair the Light Ring and help Dana find his relatives. In the Shinobi World, Orochimaru proposed modifying the Light Ring so others could travel through it.

• Doctor Strange recovered with a Healing Tag, and Dana questioned Carol about interstellar travel and proposed buying spaceships.
• Carol tested a Healing Tag on herself and Little Spider, then agreed to trade five basic spaceships for three hundred tags.
• Doctor Strange asked to use the Box of the Vishanti to modify the Light Ring and search for Dana’s relatives, and Dana agreed.
• Doctor Strange said the repaired Light Ring might let Dana travel between worlds, while Little Spider hoped to learn how to become a leader.
• In Cloud Peak Tower, Orochimaru proposed using Chakra to modify the Light Ring so others could pass through it and help rescue the Executive Officer or find the Commander-in-Chief and the others.

Dana traded for five spaceships and magical artifacts, then joined Doctor Strange and the others to move and investigate the Light Ring. After revealing White Iron Man’s crimes to New York, Doctor Strange restored the spell, opening a vast rift that fulfilled the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy.

• Dana sealed Carol’s five spaceships in scrolls and traded fifty Healing Tags to Doctor Strange for magical artifacts.
• Doctor Strange borrowed the Box of the Vishanti and moved the Light Ring through a portal to the Statue of Liberty.
• Doctor Strange used the Eye of Agamotto to project footage of White Iron Man’s crimes across the sky above New York.
• Doctor Strange released the spell bound in the Box of the Vishanti, causing the Light Ring to expand and tear open the sky.
• Humanoid shadows appeared beyond the rift, fulfilling the Great Toad Sage’s visions of a blue giant, a shattered sky, and many shadows.

Doctor Strange altered Dana’s Light Ring in an attempt to keep him from being expelled from the Marvel Universe, but it exploded and sent him away. At the same time, Orochimaru’s attempt to open the Ring to a Shinobi World rescue team also failed, bringing Dana back to Cloud Peak Tower with the Ring changed again.

• Doctor Strange used the Box of the Vishanti to reshape Dana’s Light Ring, adding locating spells and helping it resist the force trying to expel Dana.
• The Light Ring turned black-purple and seemed to bind itself to Dana, but it exploded when he touched it, leaving him missing from the Statue of Liberty.
• In the Shinobi World, Dodai oversaw Orochimaru’s attempt to modify the Light Ring so a rescue team could pass through it.
• Orochimaru realized the Ring was turning black instead of white and ordered the device stopped, but the Light Ring exploded before the researchers could prevent it.
• Dana appeared at Cloud Peak Tower beside the Ring, which had become a rotating half-black, half-white shape.

Dana returned to the Federation after vanishing through the Light Ring, but he could not travel back to the other world to search for his missing father and Qi. He resumed governing, took on the vacant Commander-in-Chief and Raikage posts, and began planning his children’s futures, including a possible assignment for Mao to the Executive Guard Second Squad.

• Dana returned to Cloud Peak Tower, reunited with Mao, and discovered that the Light Ring would not let him return to the other world.
• Dana reassured Satomi that he would keep searching for his father and Qi, then returned to his duties at Cloud Peak Tower.
• Dana gave Orochimaru magic-infused items and appointed him acting director of the Fourth Research Institute to study the Light Ring and magic.
• Dana arranged for Mine Taro to receive five spaceships and agreed to take on the vacant Commander-in-Chief and Raikage positions.
• Dana discussed his children’s training with the Yotsuki Clan elders and considered placing Mao in the Executive Guard Second Squad, alarming its members.

Dana took over as Supreme Commander and Raikage, accepted three personal secretaries chosen by the Yotsuki elders, and arranged for his daughter Mao to join Guard Unit Two. During a rare night alone, he remembered the people he used to share ramen with and reaffirmed that he would keep searching for Father and the others.

• Dana formally took over the authority of Supreme Commander and Raikage, and Dodai brought Mei Terumi, Kurotsuchi, and Samui to serve as his secretaries.
• Dana agreed to establish an Executive Secretariat with Dodai as its temporary director and gave the newly appointed secretaries a day to prepare before starting work.
• Dana agreed to Mao's request to join Guard Unit Two, introduced her to Shisui, Itachi, and Deidara, and sent her with them to complete the procedures.
• Dana finished work, checked the unchanged Light Ring, and visited Ichiraku Ramen in disguise for a rare moment alone.
• After Teuchi asked whether Dana had come alone, Dana remembered Father and Yotsuki Ki and resolved to keep searching for them, no matter the cost.

Yotsuki Mao joined Guard Unit Two and spent time with her father, Dana, while Dana managed the Heavenly Palace Project and prepared for the Light Ring's imminent change. The Federation assembled at Cloud Peak Tower as Dana sensed that the decisive moment had arrived.

• Yotsuki Mao reunited with Deidara and Uchiha Itachi at the Training Ground, where Shisui explained Mao's powerful perception ability to Deidara.
• Yotsuki Mao visited Dana at Cloud Peak Tower, told him she had met Guard Unit Two, and cheered him up before he returned to work.
• Dana reviewed Mine Taro's report and ordered the Heavenly Palace Project to prioritize independent research while reserving one spaceship for transport.
• Dana prepared for the Light Ring's expected change by bringing four Floating Airship Islands to Cloud Peak Tower and gathering researchers and personnel under Orochimaru's command.
• Dana sensed that the final day before the Light Ring's change had arrived.