Chapter Summaries

The X-Men protected Senator Kelly from the Brotherhood of Mutants and Professor X showed him a future shaped by Nimrod, prompting Kelly to reconsider his support for anti-mutant legislation. After Emma’s scan revealed Mystique had never been at the attack, Cyclops suspected the simultaneous crises were part of Nimrod’s plan.

• The X-Men drove off Mystique’s Brotherhood of Mutants, then realized Mystique was missing.
• Cyclops had Emma scan the area for Mystique while Kitty urged Senator Kelly to reconsider the Mutant Registration Act.
• Professor X showed Kelly a future where Nimrod’s regime imprisoned and killed humans and mutants, convincing Kelly to try to change the minds of his political backers.
• Emma reported that Mystique had not been nearby, and Cyclops connected the attack to simultaneous crises at Raft Prison and against the president.
• Logan noted that Nimrod had not appeared, and Cyclops wondered where Mystique had gone and whether the events served Nimrod’s plan.

Nimrod manipulated Mystique into trying to kill Tony Stark and President Matthew Ellis aboard Air Force One, hoping to restore history to its intended course. Tony stopped the assassination, and the Avengers rescued the plane; he then asked Ellis to protect Stark Industries’ acquisition of Trask Industries from political pressure.

• Tony Stark left President Ellis with his armor while he went to the restroom, and Ellis followed after worrying Tony was unprotected.
• Mystique, disguised as Ellis, shot Tony from behind while Nimrod watched, believing the assassination would put history back on its original course.
• Tony’s armor blocked the bullet, and he pinned Mystique down while a second suit of armor appeared on him.
• Nimrod sent Air Force One into a free fall, but Tony stayed calm as the plane shook and stabilized.
• An Avengers Quinjet escorted Air Force One while Thor held up the aircraft, and Tony promised to get Ellis somewhere safe before dealing with A.I.M.
• Tony asked Ellis to prevent political pressure or an antitrust investigation from obstructing Stark Industries’ acquisition of Trask Industries.

Aldrechi Killian prepared A.I.M.'s remaining loyalists and Super Adaptoids to face the Avengers, while the Avengers concluded that Nimrod was remotely operating from the future and had become their real target. The Avengers approached A.I.M.'s harbor base, expecting to confront both the remaining Super Adaptoids and Nimrod.

• Killian learned that Air Force One had briefly lost contact, then rallied A.I.M.'s loyalists to fight the Avengers rather than flee.
• An A.I.M. subordinate reported that Griffin had escaped with the Cosmic Cube prototype, and Killian ordered Hydra to deal with him.
• Killian learned that only two of A.I.M.'s three Super Adaptoids remained and abandoned plans to finish modifying James Rhodes with the Extremis virus.
• Aboard Air Force One, Tony, Captain, Pym, and Peter reasoned that Nimrod was remotely operating from the future and could not overpower Ultron's defenses.
• The Avengers approached A.I.M.'s harbor base and prepared to capture Nimrod, expecting the remaining Super Adaptoids to be there.

The Avengers attacked A.I.M.'s dock warehouse, rescued Colonel Rhodes, and fought Extremis-enhanced soldiers and Super Adaptoids. After Killian died, the captured Super Adaptoids broke free and addressed the Avengers.

• The Avengers, Pym, Janet, Wanda, and Pietro parachuted into A.I.M.'s compound as missiles struck the nearly empty planes.
• Tony warned the Avengers that A.I.M.'s Extremis-modified fighters were living bombs, then confronted Killian and battled him.
• Ant-Man rescued the unconscious Colonel Rhodes while two Super Adaptoids fought Thor and Hulk.
• Black Panther examined a Super Adaptoid and suspected its advanced metal and technology came from a time-traveling enemy such as Conqueror Kang.
• Thor restrained one Super Adaptoid with divine power, while Peter and Wanda trapped the other with magic.
• Killian blew himself up after Tony defeated him, but the Super Adaptoids broke their magical restraints and announced that they had come for the Avengers.

Nimrod offered the Avengers cooperation on his plan to eliminate mutants, then attacked when they refused. Thor used the Dragonfang Sword with Mjolnir to tear Nimrod apart, but the Sentinel declared he would return.

• Nimrod explained that his programming required him to restrict mutants and proposed that they isolate and sterilize themselves so humanity could eventually be free of mutants.
• Captain rejected Nimrod's proposal, and Nimrod attacked, knocking Captain away and breaking Quicksilver's arm before overpowering Thor, Giant-Man, Black Panther, and Tony.
• Hulk, Peter, Wasp, and Scarlet Witch tried to distract and restrain Nimrod, but he resisted their attacks and subdued Bruce Banner.
• Thor drove the Dragonfang Sword into Nimrod with Mjolnir's force, splitting him into pools of liquid metal.
• Nimrod announced that he would return, and Captain noted that even without mutant abilities, he had nearly defeated the Avengers alone.

The Avengers and X-Men investigated why Nimrod lacked its expected ability to copy X-Genes and suspected Rogue’s power was involved in creating the Nimrod Sentries. They concluded Rogue might be held at Nimrod’s production base, and Logan revealed that he had once seen a master mold beneath Genosha.

• Tony, Pym, and Bruce reviewed Nimrod’s abilities and sent a sample to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters for analysis.
• Beast and the engineer determined that Nimrod’s sample lacked the ability to copy X-Genes, while the engineer noted its metal had biological properties.
• Cyclops realized Rogue might provide the ability Nimrod needed and asked Emma to locate Anna Marie and protect her.
• On Earth-811, the professor learned Rogue might have been captured and used to create Nimrod Sentries, while Logan and Peter reasoned she would need to be at the production base.
• The professor contacted Kitty to discuss Nimrod’s master mold, and Logan revealed that he had seen it beneath Genosha.

At Avengers Tower, Tony asked where Nimrod’s magic resistance came from, and Peter, Thor, and Wanda took the question to Strange. They traced Nimrod’s liquid metal to promethium from Hell’s Border and learned it came from a possible future version of that dimension, leaving Nimrod’s exact path there unresolved.

• Tony asked where Nimrod’s magic resistance came from, and the Avengers sent Peter, Thor, and Wanda to consult Strange.
• Strange examined the liquid metal Thor had brought and summoned Illyana to identify it.
• Illyana recognized the substance as promethium metal, which existed only in Hell’s Border.
• Strange explained that promethium resembled material from the Living Abyss and could account for Nimrod’s magic resistance and malleability.
• Peter told Strange about Nimrod and asked how it could mine Hell’s Border without Illyana noticing.
• Strange explained that Hell’s Border in a possible future both existed and did not exist until that future was confirmed, identifying it as Nimrod’s likely place of origin.

Peter and the others traced the Promethium used in Nimrod Sentries to Conqueror Kang, who may have brought Nimrod to Earth-616 for his own plans. They sought the amount of metal Hydra had acquired, while Captain and Black Panther questioned Baron Strucker about where it was stored.

• Strange explained that Promethium's temporal conflict prevented complete Nimrod Sentries from teleporting into Hell's Border, and Peter reasoned that the metal had likely been taken during Belasco's time.
• Peter identified Conqueror Kang as a possible intermediary who connected Belasco, Promethium, Hydra, and Nimrod, and recalled Kang's earlier efforts to guide the creation of artificial intelligences.
• Tony said Hydra had bought the liquid metal Molten Man researched, making Hydra the likely source of information about how much Promethium remained.
• Captain and Black Panther asked Baron Strucker where Hydra stored the liquid metal, and T'Challa urged him to help stop Nimrod from destroying humanity.

Tony proposed creating a prototype Nimrod so Ultron could study its underlying logic and evolutionary path, while new clues connected Nimrod’s materials, abilities, and Master Mold to Genosha. The Avengers prepared to act, though the danger of their plan remained.

• Tony explained that Nimrod could repair the missing Master Mold to manufacture more Nimrod Sentinels, but the Avengers did not know where it was.
• Tony proposed building a prototype Nimrod and letting Ultron analyze its code; Banner and Pym understood the plan, despite the risk of provoking Nimrod or making Ultron more dangerous.
• Captain arrived with Black Panther and reported Strucker’s claim that S.H.I.E.L.D. could find the liquid-metal stockpiles if it investigated, revealing Hydra’s reach within the agency.
• Peter returned with Thor and the others and confirmed that promethium came from Hell’s Border and could not be replicated, limiting the number of Nimrod Sentinels.
• Nightcrawler and Kitty told the Avengers that Nimrod Sentinels could gain abilities from X-Gene, likely needed Rakshasa genes to evolve further, and that Master Mold was in Genosha.

President Ellis proposed dissolving the American Avengers and creating the Ultimate Team under Carol Danvers’s leadership. At the A.I.M. battlefield, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent secretly recovered Killian’s still-hot head as a sample for the hidden M.O.D.O.K. project.

• The Avengers concluded that the X-Men would have to search for Rogue and S.H.I.E.L.D. would handle Hydra’s Promethium, leaving them with little to do.
• Tony kept the scientists’ secret plan to create a baby Nimrod and have Ultron refine it from Captain and most of the Avengers.
• President Ellis asked Carol Danvers to speak at a press conference about A.I.M.’s manipulation of the American Avengers.
• Carol questioned whether the American Avengers could recover public trust, and Ellis proposed replacing them with a new team accountable to Congress and himself.
• Ellis offered Carol full authority to build and lead the Ultimate Team, which would protect the United States from attacks and conspiracies.
• A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent found and secretly took Killian’s still-hot head from the A.I.M. battlefield as a sample for the M.O.D.O.K. project.

Tony and Captain debated expanding the Avengers as Carol Danvers struggled to recruit members for the government’s Ultimate Team. They agreed Mar-Vell would be a suitable Avenger, then began considering how to recruit and prepare more heroes.

• Tony told Captain how Carol Danvers had recruited Rhodey, but Ares, Hercules, Frank Castle, and Mar-Vell had all refused the Ultimate Team.
• Tony proposed expanding the Avengers and recruiting Mar-Vell, and Captain agreed that Mar-Vell would be a good fit.
• Tony and Captain debated whether to recruit more heroes or create an Avengers Academy, with Captain stressing the need for training, allies, and resolve.
• Tony suggested Captain wanted to befriend Genosha and win over Magneto, and Captain said he hoped to reduce enemies and prove Magneto could stand with them.
• Tony had J.A.R.V.I.S. display a long list of potential recruits for them to consider.

Peter traveled to Earth-90214 in 1933, where Spider-Man Noir confronted Osborn's associate Max Dillon and learned that Morlun hunted Spider Totems. Peter intervened to save Noir, and Morlun withdrew after recognizing him as the Patriarch.

• Madame Web sent Peter to another universe with an idol, and Julia Carpenter encouraged him to trust the assignment.
• On Earth-90214, Max Dillon rode through New York while Spider-Man Noir pursued him and demanded to know what Green Goblin was planning.
• Dillon revealed his electrical equipment and attacked, but Spider-Man Noir shot him and questioned him about Osborn.
• Morlun appeared and drained Spider-Man Noir's life force, identifying himself as a hunter of Spider Totems.
• Peter arrived, wounded Morlun by tearing through space, and drove him away after Morlun called him the Patriarch.

Peter explained the Inheritors and the Spider Totems to Spider-Man Noir, then traced the local totem’s history to Norman Osborn and considered who had sold it. When Morlun began hunting Spider Totems across the multiverse, Peter left to save them while Spider-Man Noir agreed to investigate the totem.

• Peter rescued Spider-Man Noir from Morlun, revealed he was Peter Parker from Earth-616, and explained the multiverse and the Inheritors.
• Peter told Spider-Man Noir that symbiotes could shield Spider Totems from the Inheritors, and said Venom had protected him from Morlun.
• Peter showed Spider-Man Noir a Spider God statue and asked about the matching totem in his world.
• Spider-Man Noir explained that Norman Osborn had obtained the totem, and that he had killed the spiders inside after one killed Carl and another gave him spider powers.
• Peter warned that Taranto wolf spiders could still grant powers inside the totem, then asked who had sold it to Osborn.
• Peter sensed Morlun hunting Spider Totems across the multiverse, gave Spider-Man Noir Miguel’s watch, and left to save them as Noir agreed to investigate the totem.

Peter pursued Morlun across universes, saving Spider-Men and their loved ones while preventing Morlun from escaping through the Web of Destiny. Their latest portal jump brought them to a blood-soaked New York where Morlun sensed another Spider Totem nearby.

• Peter rescued Gwen Stacy from falling in Earth-120703, kicked Morlun away from Amazing-Spider, and sent the local Spider-Man to catch the Hobgoblin.
• Spider-Woman arrived through a portal, gave Amazing-Spider a watch, and directed him to reunite with his girlfriend and head to headquarters.
• Peter continued chasing Morlun between universes and repeatedly interrupted his attacks on local Spider-Men.
• Morlun and Peter fought across an ancient world and a New York overrun by humanoid plant monsters, with Peter choosing their next portal destination to keep Morlun from attacking another Spider-Man.
• Their simultaneous portal openings sent them to a blood-soaked, lifeless New York, where Morlun recovered and sensed a nearby Spider Totem.

Peter defeated Morlun in the Ogre Universe and regrouped with several Spider-Men to lure him into a trap. Morlun arrived with his Hounds, but Miguel poisoned his own life energy with nuclear radiation and left Morlun writhing in pain.

• Peter chased Morlun through the Ogre Universe, where Morlun drained Ogre Spider-Man and recovered his strength.
• Ogre Hulk knocked Morlun away, but Peter used Silk to pursue him and cut him in half with Venom after Morlun failed to absorb his life force.
• Peter and Miguel returned to Spider-Man Noir's universe and joined Gwen Spider and blond Peter to prepare for Morlun's arrival.
• Morlun arrived with Scorpion, Lizardman, and Rhino as his Hounds, then attacked Peter and regenerated his severed hand with a serum.
• Morlun seized Miguel and tried to drain his life force, but Miguel's nuclear radiation contaminated Morlun and caused green burn-like marks to spread across his face.

After Morlun escaped, Peter and Miguel discussed forming a multiverse-wide Spider-League and recruiting help for Earth-811. Miguel arrived in the Days of Future Past universe with volunteers for a dangerous mission, despite Peter’s refusal to leave his world.

• Peter, Silk, and the other Spider-Totems fought Morlun until he withdrew, warning that his Hounds remained a threat.
• Miguel proposed gathering Spider-Men at the Spider-League headquarters, and Peter asked him to investigate the universe Nimrod had destroyed.
• Peter suggested recruiting that universe’s Spider-Man and volunteers to help fight Nimrod, and Miguel connected the plan to the Web-War.
• On Earth-811, Illyana and the resistance rescued a mother and son while continuing their fight against the Sentry robots.
• Peter and the Professor discussed clues suggesting Rogue was alive and that Nimrod Sentries required promethium from Hell’s Border.
• Miguel arrived to invite Earth-811’s Peter to join the Spider-League, then revealed that volunteers had agreed to undertake the high-mortality mission as portals opened around them.

Peter and Spider-Man Noir investigated how Norman Osborn acquired the Spider Totem and found that Otto Octavius had bought it from a European woman. The chapter ended with them learning her name was Anna Soria, though Peter did not know who she was.

• Peter and Spider-Man Noir discussed Noir’s relationships with Felicia and MJ while searching through evidence about Osborn’s smuggling network.
• Spider-Man Noir found a photograph identifying Otto Octavius’s laboratory as their next destination, and Peter gave him a Web Shooter with a formula for making more.
• Peter and Spider-Man Noir reached Otto’s laboratory, where Peter silently webbed up sixteen mobsters guarding it.
• Spider-Man Noir confronted Otto and used his Spider-Sense to detect that he was lying about what he knew of the Spider Totem.
• Otto revealed that Norman Osborn had bought the totem from a European woman named Anna Soria, a name Peter did not recognize.

Peter witnessed Anansi explain the origin of Spider Totems and the Spider Legion’s purpose in preparing for a coming war against forces threatening the Web of Destiny. Anansi gave Peter a mysterious gift by having a spider bite him, leaving Peter dizzy.

• The two totems projected Anansi’s account of how he spread the Web of Destiny’s power among mortals and created Spider Totems across the multiverse.
• Anansi appeared to Peter and explained that he had driven the gods from his universe to resist the Shadow Gods.
• Anansi told Peter that the Spider Legion prepared for a war threatening the Web of Destiny, while heroes like Peter were not suited to fight as an army.
• Anansi said he had left Peter a gift, and a spider bit Peter’s hand, making him dizzy.

Peter learned from Anansi that Earth-928 might offer a way to defeat Nimrod and devised a possible way to evade the Cosmic Cube by erasing himself from reality and preparing to return. After leaving 1933, he parted from Spider-Man Noir, who later encountered a young Steve Rogers in New York.

• Peter used his new vision to sense objects and enemies through obstacles, then asked Anansi about Nimrod, a prophecy of his death, and the threat of being erased from reality.
• Anansi pointed Peter toward Earth-928 as a possible source of knowledge about defeating Nimrod and advised him not to resist the prophecy.
• Anansi suggested Peter could escape the Cosmic Cube by erasing himself from reality before it acted and arranging a way to return.
• Peter decided to visit headquarters and say goodbye to Spider-Man Noir before traveling to 2099, while Noir continued fighting criminals with the Web Shooter Peter had given him.
• Peter Parker of Earth-90214 intervened when bullies attacked a frail boy near Hell's Kitchen and learned that the boy's name was Steve Rogers.

Peter visited Miguel’s rebuilt Wasteland Universe headquarters and learned that traveling to the future would not provide a way to stop Nimrod. Miguel revealed that Earth-616’s Avengers had already found a way to deal with Nimrod, and Ultron uncovered a flaw in Nimrod’s code.

• Peter toured the Wasteland Universe headquarters with Miguel, who introduced him to Lyla and explained how their Spider-Men handled multiverse missions.
• Peter asked whether Lyla could defeat Nimrod, and Miguel explained the limits of artificial intelligence in his era.
• Miguel warned Peter that traveling to the future could not bring back useful information, then revealed that the Avengers had already figured out how to deal with Nimrod.
• On Earth-616, Tony and Pym fell asleep while secretly working on Nimrod’s initial code, and Ultron continued the programming to assist the Avengers.
• Ultron created the first-generation Nimrod, defeated it, and discovered a fundamental logical flaw in its program.