Chapter Summaries

Eddie and Venom debated what a wedding meant for their unusually intimate bond, then discovered that the public already knew about them through online videos and fan creations. Venom became fascinated with human short-video apps and asked Eddie to make him an account.

• Venom asked Eddie why they could not have a wedding, and Eddie explained that he saw them as partners rather than a romantic couple.
• Eddie told Venom that he felt they were nearly one person, and Venom agreed that their bond was deeper than ordinary couples’ relationships.
• They rejected standard wedding traditions and discussed how their ceremony would need to be unique and suited to them.
• Venom realized the public already knew about their bond, and Eddie showed him short videos and fan art featuring them.
• Venom grew interested in the short-video app and asked Eddie to register an account for him.

Schiller harvested vegetables with the children and searched for a memorable wedding surprise for Stark and Pepper, while Gray Mist and Schiller reflected on their bond. Reed followed Schiller’s advice, invited Susan to assist with an experiment, and won her over; the group later gathered by the pool to watch a film.

• Schiller harvested cabbages, lettuce, and green mangoes while thinking about how to make Stark’s wedding entrance memorable.
• Gray Mist asked Schiller about imagining a wedding, and Schiller agreed that Gray Mist and Greed were perfect together without one.
• Schiller considered ways to make the newlyweds feel saved without turning the celebration into a crisis, but came up with no suitable plan.
• Reed invited Susan to assist with his biological science experiment, and Susan happily accepted after Reed explained how their different fields could complement each other.
• Schiller told Stark that he had advised Reed to treat Susan like a mystery leading to Universal Truth, and Stark declared that Pepper was his own mystery to solve first.
• Eddie started a film on a holographic screen as the guests floated in the pool and watched together.

Schiller and Eddie worked with Dream Power Doctor Strange to create a dream that would show whether Tony Stark and Pepper loved each other apart from their identities. The dream began with Tony and Pepper hiking together across a snowy wilderness, and they continued toward a distant mountain.

• Schiller proposed using a dream to explore whether superheroes' partners would love them without their public identities, and Eddie agreed to help record it.
• Schiller and Eddie met Dream Power Doctor Strange in Schiller's dream and asked him to enter Tony Stark's dream.
• Dream Power Doctor Strange transformed Tony's laboratory dream into a snowy wilderness and blocked Tony and Pepper's memories of their real lives.
• Tony and Pepper accepted the snowfield as their reality and began hiking together toward a distant mountain.

Schiller and Dream Power Doctor Strange shaped Stark and Pepper, Steve and Carter, and Peter’s dreams into dangerous survival scenarios. By morning, Peter was carrying a feverish Gwen across an island, Stark was injured after a wolf attack, and Steve and Carter had brought a wounded mother and her newborn back to his base.

• Schiller told Eddie that Venom could preserve what he saw, and Venom urged Eddie to imagine himself flying to Stark and Pepper.
• Steve and Carter joined forces in a war-zone dream, where Steve helped a pregnant woman before the bombardment forced him to flee and leave a family directions to a shelter.
• Dream Power Doctor Strange turned Peter’s slide maze into an ocean, where Peter reunited with Gwen aboard her sailboat and agreed to help her gather fruit.
• A storm wrecked Peter and Gwen’s sailboat, and Peter carried a feverish Gwen inland in search of fresh water.
• Stark and Pepper survived a wolf attack at an isolated Wooden House, but Stark suffered a badly injured leg.
• Steve and Carter carried the mother and her newborn through artillery fire and returned to Steve’s base, rescuing the mother and daughter from the family Steve had encountered.

Steve, Carter, Stark, Pepper, Peter, and Gwen wake from vivid survival dreams that Schiller and Dream Power Doctor Strange arranged, though the dream memories quickly fade. Schiller prepares dreams for the remaining couples, then the group heads to Los Angeles before traveling to the wedding island.

• In their dreams, Steve and Carter searched a battlefield for supplies while Stark and Pepper survived a snowy wilderness and Peter and Gwen endured a deserted island.
• After waking, the couples remembered only that they had enjoyed wonderful dreams, while Eddie retained the details and discussed the brain’s dream-forgetting mechanism with Schiller.
• Schiller explained that Dream Power Doctor Strange had used the brain’s natural protective process, then said Matt and Elektra and Jarvis and Wanda were harder to surprise.
• Matt chose a colorful rainforest survival dream, while Wanda asked for a more spectacular mechanical-disaster scenario with interstellar war and cosmic destruction.
• The group planned to inspect the wedding island and visit an aerial transportation exhibition in Los Angeles; Rocket Raccoon and Pikachu agreed to serve as mascots, and Schiller took Wanda and Helen restaurant-hopping.

Schiller, Wanda, and Jarvis encountered a café that tried to exploit Schiller’s fame and provoke a public scene, but Ultron’s video exposed the café’s conduct and damaged its reputation. Schiller concluded that online influence could protect people from being misrepresented and considered making his own account to share his cooking.

• Schiller and Wanda went to a highly rated beachside café, where the attendant initially refused them entry without a reservation.
• After recognizing Schiller, the attendant invited him inside and asked to film him, but Schiller chose to leave because of the café’s poor service.
• The manager blamed the attendant for letting Schiller leave, and the attendant pursued Wanda, who stopped him with Scarlet Power when he harassed her.
• Schiller had Jarvis send Ultron footage of the incident, and Ultron edited and posted a video that sparked online attention and damaged the café’s rating.
• Jarvis boosted the video’s reach, customers shared their bad experiences, and Schiller decided he might create an account to share his cooking.

Schiller explained to Wanda why Mutants needed to improve their public image and build stronger ties with human experts, and urged her to use her influence for her family’s future. Wanda struggled with the idea that love alone could sustain a family, while Schiller verified his celebrity account and prepared to post a restaurant photo.

• Wanda realized that the restaurant staff might post about her online and attack Jarvis and her children as well as her.
• Schiller told Wanda that Mutants needed favorable human experts and public support to handle threats such as the viral invasion.
• Wanda considered the disagreements between Magneto’s Andromeda strategy and the Chinese Mutants’ gradual development plan.
• Wanda understood that she could help build Mutants’ public image, but resisted using Jarvis’s control over online opinion.
• Schiller told Wanda that a family needed members to contribute beyond love, leaving her to confront the fragility of her idealized view of family.
• Schiller verified his celebrity account and decided to use a photograph of food at their next restaurant as his first post.

Schiller visited a popular Mexican restaurant with Wanda and the others, then posted his first food-review video, which quickly gained attention. At the airport, Wanda considered starting an account, and Schiller and Venom suggested she make couple videos with Jarvis.

• Schiller paid to skip the line at the Mexican restaurant, enjoyed the food with his companions, and left a generous tip.
• Schiller posted a video reviewing the restaurant, and Ultron's repost helped his follower count rise rapidly.
• Wanda asked Schiller what kind of videos she should make, and he suggested she film everyday life while Polaris shared scenery from the Andromeda galaxy.
• Venom proposed that Wanda and Jarvis make a couple's channel, and Ultron separately urged Schiller to help them make a video.
• Wanda warmed to the idea and promised to make Venom a chocolate planet if the account became popular.

Stark prepared his island for his wedding to Pepper, but disliked the ordinary decorations and wrestled with how his political conflict with wealthy opponents might intrude on the celebration. Schiller helped him see the wedding as a gesture of goodwill, and Stark ended resolved to keep fighting with his friends beside him.

• Stark transformed his island with robots, creating a large beach venue, guest villas, and a manor for the wedding.
• Schiller saw that Stark was unhappy with the conventional wedding plans and invited him to talk privately.
• Stark explained that he wanted the wedding to reflect him but avoided a robot-centered event because Pepper preferred a traditional celebration and some guests opposed robots.
• Schiller reflected on how Stark Industries' robots threatened wealthy interests, while Stark considered the need to compromise rather than worsen the conflict.
• Schiller told Stark he was not fighting alone, and Stark declared that truth and his friends were on his side.

Schiller filmed a vlog about the wedding guests at Stark’s mountain estate, where he learned about Carter’s illness, Stark’s dispute with a fake Iron Man account, and the Lehnsherr family’s plans to improve Mutant public opinion online. The chapter ended with Pietro explaining how even niche Mutant abilities could attract large audiences on short-video platforms.

• Schiller filmed Carter vomiting in the kitchen as Steve watched over her, and Carter said his hypnosis had helped her sleep.
• Schiller teased Stark about his follower count, then discovered that the Iron Man account he followed belonged to a Filipino impersonator Stark had sued.
• Pepper urged Stark to create an official account, while Stark complained about the impostor and described his new Justice Execution armor.
• Elektra told Schiller that Matt answered legal questions online and that she was doing diplomatic work with Steve.
• Wanda introduced Schiller to Polaris during a video call, and Jarvis explained that the Lehnsherr family was discussing how Mutants could improve their online reputation.
• Pietro described successful accounts built around simple Mutant abilities and contrasted them with a more capable Mutant who had struggled to find an audience.

Wanda and Jarvis planned to use online influence to improve public opinion about Mutants, while Schiller filmed superheroes and their friends for a casual video. The video quickly went viral, and Schiller ended the chapter preparing a tabletop role-playing Dungeon.

• Wanda and the Lehnsherr family watched a popular Mutant influencer's videos and saw viewers defend him against anti-Mutant comments.
• Wanda realized she and Jarvis could shape public opinion, and Jarvis revealed he had spent years preparing realistic accounts across video platforms.
• Schiller visited Peter and Gwen, interviewed Peter, and filmed Pikachu and Rocket Raccoon, who considered making money by teaching Common Tongue online.
• Schiller learned that Nick was fishing with Eddie and Helen, then posted his edited day-in-the-life video.
• Schiller's video reached the top of the trending list in under an hour, and he replied to a popular comment asking for a camera to grow on Doctor's head.
• Schiller began working on a tabletop role-playing Dungeon.

After Magneto dreamed of a younger Charles confronting his fears about losing Professor X’s attention, Dream Power Doctor Strange reported the dream to Schiller. Schiller recognized Magneto’s insecurity and agreed to visit Eternity as soon as possible.

• The Lehnsherr Family tentatively settled on social media plans, and Magneto returned to his room and fell asleep.
• In his dream, young Charles challenged Magneto about feeling left behind by his children, Legion, and Professor X’s other attachments.
• Magneto rejected the idea that he feared losing Professor X, but admitted that dying without him would be an unimaginable horror.
• Dream Power Doctor Strange visited Schiller and recounted Magneto’s dream, while Schiller concluded that Magneto was upset because Professor X had neglected him.
• Schiller agreed to go see Eternity with Dream Power Doctor Strange as soon as possible.

Schiller investigated Magneto’s distraction for Professor X, then joined Dream Power Doctor Strange in planning a Dream Management Bureau. While checking the biological riots in the Andromeda galaxy, Schiller found a hidden spaceship beneath a barren planet and discovered a living otter-like figure inside.

• Schiller sent Professor X images of Magneto’s dream, which showed Magneto sulking over Professor X’s lack of attention.
• Schiller accompanied Dream Power Doctor Strange to the Temple of Eternity to discuss creating a Dream Management Bureau with the help of abstract entities.
• Schiller traveled to the Andromeda galaxy to investigate the strange biological riots and considered Reed’s research a possible key to understanding them.
• Gray Mist sensed life on a seemingly barren planet, and Schiller found a spaceship buried deep beneath its surface.
• Schiller entered the disabled ship and found a living, otter-like figure in its cockpit.

Schiller brought the dormant Lyra back to Earth, where Rocket reactivated her and learned that she had been hired to help the Mutants survive an impending disaster. Lyra revealed that her employer was Herbert Wyndham, the High Evolution, while the Three Great Empires planned to stop the Mutants’ expansion.

• Schiller found Lyra in the Andromeda galaxy, checked her for suspicious items, and brought her to Earth for Rocket.
• Rocket told Schiller that he and Lyra had kept in occasional contact and recounted their shared past on Half-World.
• Rocket activated Lyra’s hibernation function, and she woke up wary but relieved to find him.
• Lyra denied poisoning the Mutants, explaining that the virus was meant to help them develop antibodies against an approaching disaster.
• Lyra said the Three Great Empires wanted to deal with the Mutants and named Herbert Wyndham, the High Evolution, as her employer.

Schiller and Rocket Raccoon learned from Lyra that the High Evolution hired her to pursue Doctor Durakall’s body as part of a conflict over the Cosmic Life Fusion Plan. Lyra revealed that the plan was a Skrull Empire legacy connected to Rocket’s former master, leaving Rocket to reckon with why she had refused to confront it.

• Schiller questioned Lyra about the High Evolution’s orders, and Rocket pressed her to explain what she knew about the modified animals and Half-World Asylum.
• Lyra admitted she had tricked Rocket into carrying a secret protocol so their pursuers would chase him while she escaped, then explained that Doctor Durakall had been protecting Rocket’s former master.
• Lyra revealed that the Skrull Empire created the Cosmic Life Fusion Plan and that her goal was to destroy its political legacy, not to seek personal revenge.
• Lyra explained that the Old Skrull Empire pursued the plan during its final years, when some of its people rejected their mechanical civilization and embraced the opposite extreme.
• Rocket learned that his former master and Doctor Durakall had also known about the plan, and he questioned why she had not wanted to confront it.

Lyra explained that Doctor Durakall had uncovered a plan to create a Fusion God by combining life from other universes, and had secretly tried to stop it. She revealed that a Shi'ar faction inherited the plan and that the Doctor developed a virus to thwart its fusion method, but the chapter ended with the question of how the plan’s creators knew fusion could produce the rules of life.

• Lyra told Rocket Raccoon that she had planted the plan in a robot and in his protocols, then leaked the information to draw the masterminds’ attention away from Doctor Durakall.
• Lyra explained that the Cosmic Life Fusion Plan aimed to gather life from across the Multiverse and combine it into a rule governing life in their universe, using the M'Kraan Crystal to reach other universes.
• Schiller learned that the Mutants possessed the Crystal, while Lyra revealed that some members of the Shi'ar Empire had inherited the Old Skrull Empire’s plan.
• Lyra said Doctor Durakall had cultivated a virus in his own body that would prevent the fusion method from working on infected organisms.
• Schiller questioned how the plan’s creators knew that fusing life would produce the rules of life, and Lyra said they were rumored to have succeeded before.

Schiller learned that Lyra might be concealing details about the Old Skrull Empire’s Life Fusion Plan and used the possibility of a dangerous experiment in the Shi'ar Empire to alarm Professor X and the Mutant. The chapter ended with Schiller and Rocket Raccoon arriving at the Stone House basement, where Stark and Reed were arguing over an experiment.

• Lyra told Schiller and Rocket Raccoon that the Old Skrull Empire had succeeded in a localized Life Fusion Plan experiment, but Schiller suspected she knew more than she revealed.
• Schiller reasoned that the Shi'ar Empire might have acquired the experiment or its results and decided to investigate by contacting Professor X.
• Schiller told Professor X and Magneto about Lyra and the Old Skrull experiment, implying that the Shi'ar might possess a dangerous specimen while withholding details about the biological riot.
• Schiller explained to Rocket Raccoon that he wanted the Mutant to connect the suspected experiment to the current crisis and act against potential threats in the Shi'ar Empire.
• Schiller and Rocket Raccoon entered the Stone House basement and found Stark and Reed arguing over their experimental conclusions.

Schiller learned that the virus was artificially cultivated by a human scientist and might have been created by the High Evolution, while Lyra arranged to meet him in Centaurus in two days. Back at Stone House, Schiller tried to film a cooking video and asked Ultron for a spare microphone.

• Susan told Schiller that the virus remained dormant in X-gene carriers, caused mild symptoms, and appeared to have been selectively cultivated by a human professional.
• Schiller noticed Wanda's hoarse voice and wondered whether she had caught the virus, but decided it was unlikely to be dangerous.
• Lyra told Schiller that she would meet the High Evolution in Centaurus in two days and described him as powerful but immature; she agreed to bring Rocket along.
• Schiller decided the High Evolution's actions might have a simple explanation and returned to Stone House to film a cooking video.
• Schiller found Ultron livestreaming from the farm and asked whether he had a spare microphone.

Schiller discovered that Ultron was livestreaming a paid promotion for the Divine Spear Bureau, then filmed a cooking video before joining the others as they explored a Chinese-made superhero board game. Harry showed off Osborn Group translation glasses that translated the game’s cards, and the chapter ended with Schiller examining the game’s intricate, interconnected character abilities.

• Schiller found a Chinese WeChat message from Shang-Chi on Ultron’s phone, revealing that Ultron had been paid to promote the irrigation system in his livestream.
• Schiller borrowed Ultron’s microphone, filmed and uploaded a cooking video, then learned that Peter, Gwen, Wanda, Jarvis, Harry, and Mary were planning a couples’ game night.
• Schiller examined the Chinese-made Superheroes Kill board game that Harry had brought from Hong Kong and learned it had become popular in New York.
• Harry demonstrated Osborn Group translation glasses that replaced Chinese writing on the cards with English, and he described plans to expand the technology to alien languages.
• Schiller inspected cards for Fungus Man and other characters, discovering that their abilities combined through shared tags and could create complex effects.

Schiller and the others tested a superhero board game, where his early mech strategy dominated events before the other players countered it and Peter won. Frustrated by Iron Man’s expensive, late-game weaknesses, Schiller angrily messaged Stark, who arrived to find everyone enthusiastically playing.

• Schiller examined his character card and discovered that its Mind Reading and Hypnosis skills could manipulate opponents’ action cards and clear germ effects.
• Wanda organized a rehearsal game, and the players set up the New York board, drew cards, and began fighting events for points.
• Schiller and Peter allied around a mech swarm, using the Brood Mother, buffs, and summoned machines to defeat the Ten Rings and earn most of the points.
• Schiller’s robots dominated later events until Thor’s Mjolnir and Wanda’s Loki disrupted his strategy, while Peter switched decks and ultimately won.
• Schiller concluded that Iron Man’s mech deck was costly and weak in the late game, then sent Stark an angry barrage of messages.
• Stark arrived in the hall, confused by Schiller’s scolding, and found everyone playing the board game.