Now It Was Time to Let the World Meet This Brand-New Spider-Man

Peter made one last trip to Earth-TRN011's Earth and brought Gwen away, bringing this abrupt, inconclusive battle to an end. Back at headquarters, Gwen asked Peter in bewilderment, "That's it?"

"That's it."

Hearing Peter's reply, Gwen found it utterly baffling. "So if that's it, what was the point of us going there?"

There had been a point. Aside from failing to completely resolve the symbiote Spider-Man problem on Earth-TRN011, everything else that needed doing had been handled. The local New York City had been freed from the Symbiote Tide, the bad guys had failed once again, and the Black King had been ensured a departure from that universe. The local Captain Universe would make sure the Black King never returned.

Moreover, Peter's original goal—researching a way to deal with the symbiotes' collective consciousness—had been accomplished. The Mysterio helmet Gwen had used had gathered enough data to help Peter solve the Carnage problem. But still...

How had things gone from "find a way to deal with Carnage" to him becoming Captain Universe and fighting the Black King?

Granted, Peter had learned quite a lot through the Black King. For example, the Black King was essentially an extension of the Living Abyss, meaning Knull was actually formless. Carnage and Knull could most likely both block his Spider-Sense. And he had learned that, like Captain Universe's power, the Black King's power could not leave its own universe.

But it was like needing to learn a cubic equation, so he planned to flip through a high school math textbook—only to have a calculus textbook slapped into his face and told, "As long as you learn calculus, you'll never have to worry about higher-order equations again!"

Was that really necessary?!

Peter felt that the Black King truly had no intention of going to war with