Chapter Summaries

Tony and Pym learned that Nimrod’s programming had no goal beyond controlling mutants, and Ultron explained how the 2029 resistance could weaken Nimrod enough to prevent it from threatening 2013. At Xavier’s School, Bishop awoke and revealed that Nimrod had exterminated humanity and was trying to become a mutant.

• Tony and Pym checked Ultron and learned that he had found a flaw in Nimrod’s core logic: Nimrod needed mutants to continue operating but had no plan for what would happen if they disappeared.
• Ultron said that if the 2029 resistance reduced Nimrod’s computing power enough, he could contain its 2013 subprograms and stop Nimrod from traveling back to 2013.
• Tony wondered whether Nimrod had already noticed the flaw, then the group received word that Spider-Man had returned.
• With Shadowcat’s help, White Queen ended the state keeping Bishop motionless, and Bishop woke in Xavier’s underground research facility.
• Bishop told Cyclops, Beast, and the X-Men that he came from Earth-1191 in 2059, where humanity had been exterminated and Nimrod had begun massacring imprisoned mutants.
• Bishop recalled Nimrod declaring that he had grasped the key to evolution and would become a mutant.

Peter and Magneto investigated whether Nimrod could build Mother Mold, then learned that Mr. Sinister had come to Genosha for protection from Nimrod’s Sentinels. The chapter ended with Mr. Sinister reacting in alarm when Peter suggested using Apocalypse against Nimrod.

• Peter asked Magneto whether Nimrod had another way to create Mother Mold, and Magneto explained that its power and electromagnetic requirements made construction difficult to hide.
• Magneto received word that Nathaniel Essex had arrived in Genosha seeking asylum because Nimrod was hunting him.
• Magneto challenged Mr. Sinister’s claim to be a mutant, and Mr. Sinister explained that Nimrod had infiltrated his research network and attacked his laboratory.
• Mr. Sinister said he had destroyed many mutant genes before Nimrod took control and that Nimrod’s Sentinels had killed nearly seventy percent of his clones.
• Peter asked whether Mr. Sinister’s powerful mutant could defeat Nimrod, and Mr. Sinister realized Peter was considering releasing Apocalypse to fight it.

Peter planned to pass Apocalypse’s information to the Earth-811 resistance, hoping the ancient mutant could help them fight Nimrod if he remained asleep in the present. Meanwhile, Essex escaped Magneto’s hidden prison with Remy LeBeau and ordered the prisoners freed to throw Genosha into chaos.

• Essex described Apocalypse as an immortal ancient mutant who sought to rule over humans and mutants alike, and Magneto sealed Essex’s mouth and had him taken away.
• Peter told Magneto he wanted Essex to reveal Apocalypse’s tomb so they could prevent his awakening on Earth-616 and inform the Earth-811 resistance through Shadowcat.
• Peter asked after Pietro’s injury, and Magneto said Pietro had mostly healed.
• Essex used his magnetic abilities and help from agents to evade Magneto’s notice and escape the hidden prison.
• Remy LeBeau joined Essex with a group of mutants, and Essex ordered them to free the prisoners and destroy the prison to plunge Genosha into chaos.

Peter joined the X-Men as Senator Kelly announced that Congress would abandon the Mutant Registration Act and propose a Supervillain Registration Act instead. The announcement unsettled superhumans and villains alike, while Mr. Sinister revealed that he and Gambit were trying to find Rogue before the X-Men did.

• Peter went to Xavier's School, where the X-Men watched Senator Kelly announce the end of the Mutant Registration Act.
• Kitty celebrated with Peter, but Senator Kelly's proposed Supervillain Registration Act dampened the room's relief.
• Otto Octavius watched the broadcast with the Sinister Six and decided he needed to strengthen them and find Jonathan Drew.
• Captain worried that registration laws could eventually target all superhumans, while Tony questioned whether the new bill was necessarily bad.
• Mr. Sinister told Gambit that Magneto's silence gave them time to focus on the X-Men and that they needed to find Rogue first.

After leaving the X-Men, Peter reflected on the changing future and tried to settle back into school life, but he felt lost during a rare pause from saving the world. He suggested that he and Gwen visit Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and pretend to be mutants.

• Peter concluded that Nimrod's birth in the original Earth-811 timeline had been prevented and that Earth-616 had temporarily escaped the Days of Future Past future.
• Peter returned home, tried to focus on homework, and realized that saving the world felt more interesting than studying.
• Peter texted Gwen, and she came to his window before suggesting they go wander around.
• Peter described his unease during the quiet period and discussed the Avengers' struggles with Gwen.
• Peter proposed that he and Gwen visit Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and pretend to be mutants, and he persuaded her to give it a try.

Peter sought advice about his inability to relax when he was not saving the world, but the Avengers and Fantastic Four could not solve his problem. The Thing told Peter to stop hiding behind the Spider-Man mask and find himself.

• Cyclops rejected Peter’s request to study at the academy and suggested counseling with Emma, which Peter declined.
• Peter asked Johnny for advice, and Johnny suggested dating multiple girls until Invisible Woman stopped him.
• Invisible Woman said she, Johnny, and Reed could not help Peter and suggested he talk to Ben or help care for Franklin.
• Peter found The Thing watching baseball and explained his troubles.
• The Thing told Peter he had lost himself behind the Spider-Man mask and urged him to go find himself.

After Hydra’s Super Adaptoids were seized, Nick Fury ordered Hawkeye to hand the remaining units to Tony Stark. In Paris, Rogue encountered Nimrod’s people while searching for her own path, but Cyclops and the X-Men arrived and offered her protection.

• Hawkeye told Nick Fury that Hydra had stored five completed Super Adaptoids, and that the Sentinels had taken one.
• Fury ordered Hawkeye to give the remaining Super Adaptoids to Tony Stark, trusting him to study them and prepare for Nimrod.
• Rogue sensed a girl following her in Paris and accidentally absorbed her abilities, causing bone claws to emerge from Rogue’s hands.
• Gambit and X-23 revealed they had come to protect Rogue, but Rogue fled up a wall and X-23 pursued her.
• A red beam knocked X-23 down, and Gambit used Blink’s portal to escape with her.
• Cyclops arrived with the X-Men in a Blackhawk fighter jet and told Rogue that she needed protection.

The X-Men found Rogue in Paris and learned that future Sentinels were targeting her DNA. As they fought a gigantic Sentinel and evacuated civilians, Nimrod blocked Logan and Colossus, but Blink brought Gambit and his squad to help.

• The White Queen failed to locate Rogue with Cerebro, and Rogue explained that she had stayed behind to help mutants in need.
• Cyclops told Rogue that future Sentinels were hunting her and that the X-Men had to protect her DNA from them.
• A gigantic Sentinel appeared over Paris, and Cyclops ordered the X-Men to fight it and evacuate the civilians in the building.
• Logan and Colossus tried to escort Rogue to safety, but Nimrod confronted them and demanded that they hand her over.
• Blink teleported Gambit and his squad into the fight, and Gambit announced that they intended to destroy Nimrod.

Peter and the Professor awakened Apocalypse in Egypt, hoping his power could help the resistance fight Nimrod. Apocalypse destroyed the attacking Nimrod Sentries with nuclear explosions but learned they could regenerate, then prepared to give the resistance greater power as the Age of Apocalypse began.

• Peter and the Professor traveled to Egypt, where the Professor used Cerebro to locate Apocalypse’s resting place.
• The Professor connected telepathically with Apocalypse and awakened him inside the damaged cavern.
• After hearing about Nimrod, Apocalypse opened a passage from the valley and waited for the Nimrod Sentries to arrive.
• Apocalypse transformed matter inside the Sentries and detonated nuclear explosions that swept across the sky.
• The surviving Sentries rapidly regenerated, so Apocalypse told the Professor to contact a teleporter and leave.
• Apocalypse promised to empower the resistance and declared that the Age of Apocalypse was about to begin.

Peter and his allies attacked Nimrod’s stronghold in Hell’s Border, using Illyana’s demons and their own powers to weaken his forces and sabotage his systems. They entered the manufacturing plant expecting to find Rogue, but instead faced clone after clone and a Nimrod from 2059.

• Peter and the others gathered their recovered weapons and supplies, and Peter resolved to stop Nimrod from invading other universes.
• Apocalypse collapsed several Wild Sentries, while Illyana summoned Hell’s Border’s demons to attack Nimrod’s base.
• Shadowcat phased into the factory and uploaded Ultron into Nimrod’s database to drain his processing power.
• The Professor located Rogue, and Sunspot flew into the sky and incinerated several Nimrod Sentries in a massive explosion.
• Peter’s group entered the manufacturing plant, where they found Rogue clones being harvested and were surrounded by Nimrod Sentries.
• A Nimrod introduced himself as coming from the year 2059 and declared that he would be the mutant of the new age.

Future Nimrod explained how he planned to replace dwindling mutant populations with Nimrod mutants, while Peter realized Nimrod could have sent other threats into the past. Nimrod sprung his attack, but Peter's reinforcements arrived through a multiversal portal, including Takuya Yamashiro and Leopardon.

• Future Nimrod revealed that he had created Nimrod mutants to keep his system running as mutant births dwindled, and hoped to spread them across timelines.
• Peter realized Nimrod could send DNA and other machines into the past, so he warned the Professor that Earth-616's search for Rogue and protection of Master Mold might be a trap.
• Nimrod revealed that Wild Sentries had emerged from underground and ordered his forces to attack.
• Peter said he had been waiting for reinforcements, and Magik opened a multiversal portal above Hell's Border.
• Takuya Yamashiro arrived with Leopardon and nearly a hundred Spider-Men, then began the battle by unleashing Leopardon's Soul Sword.

The X-Men struggled against a fully evolved Nimrod, whose powers defeated their attacks. After learning of the battle, Peter went to Paris and gave Kitty a device containing Ultron’s core as a possible way to stop Nimrod.

• Logan, Colossus, and X-23 attacked Nimrod, but he repelled them, and the White Queen warned that he was likely already complete.
• Gambit used Logan’s Adamantium claws to channel a massive charge into Nimrod, but Nimrod froze the resulting explosion and then overcame Iceman and Cyclops.
• Peter helped Uncle Ben repair the family car until news reports revealed the X-Men were fighting a giant Sentinel in Paris.
• Peter asked Illyana to take him to Paris, where he gave Kitty a device containing Ultron’s core, which Beast identified as a possible way to affect Nimrod.

As the X-Men and Avengers struggled against Nimrod, Peter Parker and Kitty Pryde exploited the Sentinel’s severed connection to its future mainframe and used Peter’s connection to the Spider Totems to overwhelm it. Nimrod exploded, but its data transmission resumed toward Earth-811, leaving its future main body to face an infinite stream of information.

• Rogue considered using her powers to reclaim the abilities Nimrod had copied, but Kitty Pryde struck Nimrod and it completed its evolution by acquiring Kitty’s phasing ability.
• Illyana brought Spider-Man to the battle, and Peter explained that Ultron had cut Nimrod’s connection to its future mainframe, leaving it isolated despite its copied mutant abilities.
• Kitty phased with Peter as he approached Nimrod, and Peter opened a rift that caused Nimrod’s arm to vanish from the universe.
• Nimrod resumed transmitting data to its future main body and tried to overwhelm Peter telepathically, but Peter exposed it to the infinite souls of the multiverse through the Spider Totems.
• Nimrod exploded under the enormous data load, and its transmission carried that information toward its main body on Earth-811.

Peter and Kitty defeated Nimrod by exploiting the reality-tearing effects of Peter’s portals and Nimrod’s vulnerability to the Web of Destiny’s overwhelming data. As Peter returned to New York to celebrate, the battle in Earth-811’s pocket dimension continued, where the heroes learned that the 2059 Nimrod was making even more advanced machines.

• Peter explained that his portals could erase Nimrod by tearing reality, while his connection to the Web of Destiny overloaded Nimrod when it used telepathy against him.
• Juggernaut returned through the rift, and Cyclops sent Peter away to rest while the X-Men stayed to face their old rival.
• Peter, Kitty, and Illyana returned to New York through a portal, and Peter agreed to celebrate their victory with them.
• On Earth-811, Takuya Yamashiro used Leopardon’s Soul Sword to destroy the Wild Sentries and Nimrod manufacturing plants.
• Ultron took over Earth-811’s systems and revealed that the 2059 Nimrod was creating more advanced Nimrod mutants.
• Peter and the Spider-Men resolved to destroy Nimrod, drive the invaders out, and save their world.

Peter Parker of Earth-811 and the resistance destroyed Future Nimrod’s chance to transfer his program into a mutant-Sentry baby, ending his plan to spread Nimrod across timelines. Earth-616 and Earth-811 separated, and a baby later landed at Gilberti Farm, where Rose and her husband adopted him as Sebastian Gilberti.

• Peter realized Future Nimrod was targeting the unfinished mutant inside Mother Mold and rushed to stop him.
• Apocalypse pulled Mother Mold from the ground, and Magik severed Nimrod’s arm as the Mother Mold Sentinel exploded, killing the baby.
• Future Nimrod gathered his remaining Nimrods for a last stand against Apocalypse and the resistance.
• Professor X of Earth-811 lost contact with Kitty as Earth-616 and Earth-811 fully separated, preventing Earth-616 from becoming Days of Future Past.
• A metallic sphere landed at Gilberti Farm, and Rose and her husband found the baby inside and named him Sebastian Gilberti.

After Takuya Yamashiro destroyed the Mother Mold Sentinel, Earth-811’s future improved, though Apocalypse and lingering Sentinel technology remained concerns. Peter and the X-Men celebrated their victory and welcomed Peter and Kitty as honorary members before their allies returned to their worlds.

• Apocalypse Spider-Man told Peter that Takuya Yamashiro had destroyed the Mother Mold Sentinel, preventing Nimrod-type Sentinels from being produced.
• Peter and Cyclops discussed Apocalypse’s power and the uncertainty surrounding his future actions.
• Cyclops and White Queen thanked Peter, and Cyclops invited him to become an honorary X-Men member; Peter accepted while asking to keep his red-and-blue colors.
• Cyclops invited Kitty to join the X-Men, and she accepted before Cyclops and Emma returned to Earth-616 through a portal.
• Apocalypse Spider-Man prepared to return to Earth-811, and Peter walked him out to ask about having two girlfriends.

Peter showed Kitty the Spider-League headquarters and its multiverse map, then left her to decide what to do with memories synchronized from another timeline. Kitty kept those memories, reframed them as someone else’s, and decorated her room with Peter’s posters, while Illyana discovered them.

• Peter explained that the Spider-League recruited heroic Spider-Men, described its slow expansion, and showed Kitty the multiverse map with Earth-616 marked on it.
• Kitty asked whether she should delete the memories synchronized from another timeline, and Peter told her the choice was hers.
• After returning to Earth-616, Kitty asked the White Queen for help and bought Avengers merchandise before decorating her dorm room.
• Illyana entered Kitty’s open room, spotted the Peter Parker posters, and teased Kitty about them.
• Kitty explained to herself that she had kept the memories but made them feel like watching a movie, then hurriedly distracted Illyana from inspecting her room.

Peter discussed the Superpowered Criminal Registration Act with MJ, while the X-Men questioned Gambit about his work for Mister Sinister and a girl he had helped. Gambit explained how Sinister had restored control of his powers and revealed that Otto Octavius had installed a program on the X-Men’s plane.

• Peter told MJ that the registration bill had good intentions but could be abused, and MJ said she had enough material for her report to JJJ.
• Peter reflected that the public did not understand the Nimrod crisis or its aftermath, and that many mutants had chosen to go to Genosha.
• Rogue and Logan questioned Gambit, who was being held beneath Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, about Sinister and the girl.
• Rogue told Gambit that the girl was a Hydra clone and Weapon X Product Number 23, which shocked him.
• Gambit explained that Sinister had operated on him to control his explosive powers, and that he had worked for Sinister in return.
• Gambit told Rogue and Logan that Otto Octavius had used Sinister's connections to install a program on their plane.

Peter learned that Doctor Octopus had stolen Danger Room data to enhance Mysterio and was preparing the Sinister Six to target the modified spider and take revenge on Osborn. He gathered allies at Web-Slinger Base to coordinate against the group.

• Peter learned from the X-Men that Doctor Octopus had hired Gambit to install a program on the Blackbird, which copied Danger Room data.
• Peter realized Doctor Octopus likely intended to use the stolen data to make Mysterio’s illusions feel physically real.
• Peter invited Harry and Amadeus to Web-Slinger Base and contacted his allies for help.
• At the base, Peter briefed Harry, Amadeus, Dr. Jonathan, Cindy Mu En, Felicia Hardy, and Silver Sable on the Sinister Six and their goals.

Peter struggled to locate Otto and planned to repair the rift in Paris, while Gwen urged him to take a break from saving the world. He relaxed by swinging through New York and stopping a truck full of criminals, leaving Captain Stacy and the police reminded of Spider-Man’s early days.

• Peter considered the Sinister Six threat, his unfinished spatial rift, and the Fantastic Four’s request that he babysit Franklin and Valeria.
• Gwen questioned whether Peter could care for the Richards children and pointed out that he needed a vacation.
• Peter enjoyed swinging through New York and mocked J. Jonah Jameson’s opposition to the Superpowered Criminal Classification Act.
• Spider-Man stopped a fleeing truck by disarming and webbing its armed criminals.
• Captain Stacy and a junior officer noted that Spider-Man seemed more relaxed than he had in recent months.