Chapter Summaries

Peter and Gwen arrived in Earth-TRN011 to stop the symbiote outbreak and warned Nick Fury that the enhanced symbiotes were more dangerous than before. After Wolverine failed to stop the villainous Spider-Man, Peter told Fury he needed no supplies and could handle the symbiotes.

• Peter explained to Gwen that Earth-TRN011's Peter Parker had joined forces with Black Cat, conquered New York, and planned to take over the world.
• Peter and Gwen teleported to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying carrier, where Nick Fury ordered agents to lower their weapons and questioned Peter about his symbiote suit.
• Peter warned Fury that a powerful god had enhanced the symbiotes and that infected heroes retaining their awareness could make matters worse.
• A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent reported that Symbiote Spider-Man had hung Wolverine from the Empire State Building after Wolverine failed to stop him.
• Fury asked Peter about his ties to the Fantastic Four and what he wanted, and Peter said he had come to eliminate the symbiotes and needed no help.

Peter used Anti-Venom to destroy symbiotes across New York, drawing the attention of the local Symbiote Spider-Man. He began fighting him while looking for a way to eliminate every symbiote at once.

• Peter swept through New York and killed hundreds of symbiotes, freeing their infected hosts.
• Maria Hill asked Nick Fury whether S.H.I.E.L.D. should move in, and Fury ordered preparations to contain the cured people and face a larger symbiote army.
• Peter defeated symbiote-covered Vulture and Electro, dissolving the symbiotes on both villains.
• The local Symbiote Spider-Man confronted Peter and warned him to leave and abandon heroism.
• Peter realized that each symbiote molecule on his opponent acted independently, then dodged his attack and punched him.

Gwen tested whether the Mysterio helmet could interfere with symbiotes while Peter fought the symbiote-controlled Spider-Man. Her experiments confused the hosts but failed to affect the symbiotes, and she spotted this universe’s Carnage heading toward Peter.

• Peter quickly gained the upper hand against the symbiote-controlled Spider-Man while Gwen monitored their fight and scanned the symbiote signals.
• Gwen found that the signals used a language she could not understand, then saw Rhino and Scorpion approaching.
• Gwen used the Mysterio helmet to test whether illusions could reach the symbiote consciousness network, but the helmet only confused Rhino and Scorpion and caused their symbiotes to act unpredictably.
• Gwen’s scans gathered more data without producing practical results, and she spotted this universe’s Carnage approaching Peter.

Peter fought Symbiote Spider-Man while Gwen used Mysterio’s helmet to investigate the symbiote network. After Gwen fed conflicting illusions into the network, Symbiote Spider-Man became disoriented, giving Peter an opening to attack.

• Gwen told Peter that Mysterio’s helmet had not affected Scorpion or Rhino, and Peter realized she needed to test ordinary symbiote-infected people instead.
• Symbiote Spider-Man attacked Peter and demanded to know who he was communicating with.
• Carnage arrived, but Symbiote Spider-Man pulled Cletus from him, killed him, and merged with Carnage to strengthen himself.
• Gwen used the helmet on an ordinary infected person and discovered that countless individual symbiote consciousnesses shared a vast network.
• Gwen introduced false and conflicting sensory information into the network, disorienting Symbiote Spider-Man.
• Peter recognized Gwen’s success, closed in, and punched the disoriented Symbiote Spider-Man.

Peter fought the Symbiote Spider-Man of Earth TRN-011 while Gwen struggled to evade a symbiote-infected Black Cat and keep their experiment going. Peter challenged his counterpart’s belief that Spider-Man was an obligation, but Black Cat’s arrival interrupted their exchange.

• Spider-Man of Earth TRN-011 realized someone else had caused the confusing states he sensed, then attacked Peter after hearing him mention Gwen Stacy.
• Peter dodged and fought the Symbiote Spider-Man while Gwen explained that she could not use her forgetting ability without disrupting the experiment.
• Peter urged his counterpart to stop blaming Spider-Man’s responsibility for his losses, and the Symbiote Spider-Man began to question his choices.
• Black Cat arrived in a symbiote suit and opened fire, interrupting the two Spider-Men’s conversation.
• Peter joked about Black Cat’s exposed midriff, and the Symbiote Spider-Man remarked that Peter Parker’s mouth could ruin things.

Peter and Gwen’s plan disabled the symbiotes’ ability to bond with humans, while S.H.I.E.L.D. continued preparing its anti-symbiote bomb. As Peter subdued Symbiote Spider-Man, a new god arrived through the symbiote network and identified himself as the Black King.

• Peter fought Symbiote Spider-Man and sent Black Cat, Scorpion, and Rhino to capture Gwen.
• Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to continue installing the anti-symbiote bomb despite Peter’s ability to stop the crisis.
• Gwen used the Airbus Squad’s equipment and false signals to make the symbiotes collapse and lose their ability to bond with humans.
• Peter pinned Symbiote Spider-Man and looked toward the bomb atop the Empire State Building.
• Peter and Gwen’s Spider-Senses warned them as a new god reshaped Symbiote Spider-Man and introduced himself as the God of Symbiotes, the Black King.

The Black King came to Peter Parker’s universe to stop him from expanding the Web Legion and offered to take over its Klyntar, but Peter refused after seeing the Black King’s memories. When the Black King tried to overpower him through Anti-Venom, Knull’s sealed consciousness helped Peter regain control, and Mister Misery arrived to empower Peter as Captain Universe.

• The Black King explained that he needed the Web Legion to expand its symbiote network and replace Knull as master of the Hive Mind before Shathra awakened.
• The Black King asked Peter to stop and let him take over the Klyntar, offering to solve the universe’s crises, but Peter refused after witnessing his memories.
• The Black King used his control of the symbiotes to make Peter’s Anti-Venom mutate, but discovered that Peter had sealed Knull’s consciousness inside himself.
• Knull helped Peter contain Anti-Venom, and Peter drew the Dragonfang Sword to fight the Black King.
• Mister Misery merged with Peter and transformed him into Captain Universe.

Gwen lost contact with Peter as S.H.I.E.L.D. searched for him, while Peter pursued the Black King to Klyntar and confronted him. Peter’s attacks failed to stop the Black King, who destroyed the system’s star and hurled its collapsed remains at him.

• Gwen could not reach Peter, and S.H.I.E.L.D. told her that both Spider-Men had disappeared before it began clearing Manhattan of symbiotes.
• Peter chased the Black King into space after Knull explained that the Black King wanted a stronger body capable of fighting Captain Universe.
• Peter found the Black King at Klyntar after the planet exploded, revealing countless giant symbiote Spider-Men.
• Peter bound the Black King with Serathok’s Crimson Chains and attacked him with magic, but the Black King broke free and dismissed his spells.
• The Black King sent Peter flying, collapsed the system’s star into a small black sphere, and hurled it at him.

Peter fought Black King, who came to stop his research into dismantling the symbiote Hive Mind because Peter could become a Black King himself. Black King explained the Bride’s role in the Web of Destiny, then unleashed Knull’s Living Abyss against Peter in the Negative Zone.

• Peter realized Black King had come because he was researching how to dismantle the symbiote Hive Mind, and Black King feared what Peter might become.
• Black King explained that spider totems could possess many possibilities and that Peter could one day become Black King and replace Knull.
• Black King brought Peter to the Negative Zone, where antimatter battered him as Black King criticized his combat experience.
• Black King explained that the Bride could preserve or restore spider totems through the Web of Destiny, even if the Master Weaver died.
• Peter pierced Black King with the Dragonfang Sword, but Black King revealed that his body belonged to Knull, the Living Abyss, which surged toward Peter.

Peter used portals, a mirror dimension, and antimatter to attack the Black King, but the Black King blocked his Spider-Sense and survived. The Black King demanded assurance that Peter would never become a threat to the symbiote consciousness network, leaving Peter to figure out how to prove it.

• Peter escaped the Black King's attack through Sling Ring portals, which scattered his tendrils across the universe without revealing Peter's location.
• Peter hid in a mirror dimension and used Captain Universe's power to bring ordinary matter into the Negative Zone, triggering a violent explosion.
• Peter stabbed the Black King with the Enigma Force-infused Dragonfang Sword, but the Black King emerged unharmed and destroyed Peter's symbiote attackers.
• The Black King explained that the symbiote Hive Mind could block Peter's Spider-Sense and said he had come to secure a guarantee that Peter would never threaten the symbiote consciousness network.
• Peter realized that leaving would not satisfy the Black King and wondered how he could prove he would never become the kind of Black King the other man feared.

Peter questioned the Black King about why the Web Legion needed the symbiote collective consciousness network and deduced that they were at a stalemate. He proposed that both sides leave the universe and let its people decide their fate, but the Black King said the problem remained unresolved.

• The Black King demanded a guarantee that Peter would not destroy the multiversal Symbiote Web, while Peter refused to surrender control of Earth-616's network.
• Peter learned that destroying the Symbiote Web would free symbiotes and guessed that the Web Legion preserved it as protection against Shathra and as a model of the Web of Destiny.
• Knull suggested that Peter kill himself so Knull and the Black King could fight over his universe, and Peter ignored him.
• Peter concluded that the Black King could not defeat him or achieve his goal while Peter remained in the universe, leaving both sides in a stalemate.
• Peter proposed that they both leave the universe and let its people decide their fate, but the Black King said the problem was unresolved, so Peter challenged him to keep fighting.

Peter returned from Earth-TRN011 with Gwen after the battle against the Black King and prepared a new nanobot suit designed to help him deal with Carnage. After putting it on, he asked where Carnage was.

• Peter brought Gwen back from Earth-TRN011, concluding their operation there while the local Captain Universe took responsibility for keeping the Black King away.
• Peter explained that Gwen’s Mysterio helmet had collected data for his research into stopping Carnage and planned to have Professor X examine the dormant Knull.
• Peter and Gwen went to the Baxter Building, where Peter connected the helmet to his computer and began building a new suit using gathered supervillain technology.
• Peter’s nanobot suit incorporated defensive materials, Anti-Venom, mechanical arms, and a molecular oscillator designed to fight Carnage.
• Peter stored the completed suit in a watch, activated it, and asked where Carnage was.

Cletus and Carnage terrorized a driver in the Appalachian Mountains, then used their deer puppets to spread through the region. After discovering an illegal cattle ranch and slaughterhouse, Cletus planned to infect the cows and spread Carnage through beef products across the United States and beyond.

• A driver spotted a grotesque, predatory deer and fled as it and other strange deer pursued him along the mountain road.
• The driver crashed off a cliff, and rangers Ryan and his older partner investigated the death the next day.
• Cletus and Carnage ate the driver’s head while Carnage-controlled deer scattered across the Appalachian Mountains.
• Cletus discovered a nearby ranch mixing slaughterhouse scraps into cattle feed and planned to infect the herd through its feed and beef products.

Johnny’s dinner with Eno turned into a nightmare when he transformed into a red, crawling monster, and Eno shot him to stop it. The creature then infected Eno and a responding police officer, leaving Agent Ward and Coulson to face the aftermath in Chicago.

• Johnny and Eno ate dinner while discussing Spider-Man and Chicago’s lack of superheroes.
• After they spent the night together, Eno found Johnny vomiting a scarlet, black-streaked substance that crawled over his body.
• Eno barricaded herself in the bedroom, called 911, and blasted the monster breaking through the door with Johnny’s shotgun.
• Chicago police arrived and found Johnny dead, but Eno vomited the same red substance, which infected her as an officer opened fire.
• About half an hour later, Ward and Coulson arrived to find three headless corpses at the scene.

Peter and S.H.I.E.L.D. traced the widespread Carnage infections to the Appalachian Mountains, where Peter and Jessica Drew went to investigate. They found Carnage covering the woods and turning animals into attacking hosts.

• Peter arrived at the Bus safehouse as S.H.I.E.L.D. struggled to distinguish Carnage’s signals and investigate the growing number of killings.
• After another alarm, Peter used the infection reports to identify a likely spread center near Virginia and West Virginia.
• Coulson sent Peter toward the Appalachian Mountains aboard the Bus, with Jessica Drew joining him as aerial support.
• Peter and Jessica landed in the woods and detected symbiote signals surrounding them.
• Carnage-covered Zombie Moose and Zombie Deer appeared and charged at Peter and Jessica.

Peter and Jessica investigated Cletus's abandoned hideout, where Peter swiftly killed a herd of symbiote-infected Zombie Moose. They deduced that Cletus had left a clue pointing to infected beef and nearby slaughterhouses, then prepared to pursue him there.

• Peter used his Anti-Venom suit and Speed Suit to kill the attacking Zombie Moose in seconds.
• Jessica reasoned that Cletus had staged the ambush as a provocation rather than simply fleeing, and Peter agreed he was likely leaving clues.
• Jessica suspected the moose had been Zombie Deer before Carnage attacked them, and Peter's scan confirmed it.
• Peter and Jessica connected the prion infection in Zombie Deer to Carnage's spread through beef and traced outbreaks to nearby slaughterhouses.
• Peter contacted Coulson and planned to investigate the slaughterhouses, warning Jessica that the ranchers might already be dead.

Ward and Peter used Fitz’s drone to investigate Cletus’s slaughterhouse, where they found Carnage-infected cattle and a family murdered and arranged around a table. A Daily Bugle broadcast helped Peter connect the “Last Supper” clue to Cape Canaveral, leaving him to wonder what Cletus planned to do there.

• Fitz handed Ward the drone controller, and Peter stayed to help investigate despite the gruesome possibilities.
• Ward piloted the drone into the cattle pen and found that nearly all the cows carried symbiote signals.
• Fitz reported that the slaughterhouse family’s records and online activity had vanished, while Ward’s drone revealed their corpses arranged around a table.
• Peter identified the staged scene as the Last Supper and then noticed a Daily Bugle broadcast about John Jameson’s space mission.
• Peter and Ward concluded that the clue pointed toward Cape Canaveral, though Peter remained unsure how Cletus planned to involve the rocket launch.

Peter and S.H.I.E.L.D. learned that Carnage had gone to Florida and reached Cape Canaveral to screen for infected people. NASA switched to an unmanned launch, but Cletus devised a way to lure Spider-Man into space anyway.

• Coulson reported that Carnage had massacred more than twenty soldiers at a Florida military base and warned that Hydra might be creating additional symbiotes.
• Peter worried Hydra had succeeded in producing Carnage and could make more powerful symbiotes.
• NASA agreed to launch an unmanned spacecraft instead of sending astronauts into space, while S.H.I.E.L.D. prepared to screen and isolate people at Cape Canaveral.
• The person in charge told Jessica that the rocket would still launch that night, with its astronauts replaced by an unmanned system.
• Cletus, hiding in a warehouse, realized his plan to trap Spider-Man alongside the astronauts had failed, then announced he had another way to take Spider-Man into space.

Fitz, Simmons, and Skye investigated the lack of symbiote signals at Cape Canaveral before Carnage emerged on a rocket and forced Spider-Man to fight him. Peter climbed aboard to stop Carnage without destroying the rocket, and the chapter ended with Knull stabilizing Carnage as he faced Spider-Man.

• Fitz and Simmons questioned why there were no symbiote signals at Cape Canaveral, and Skye suggested Carnage’s Hive Mind might not need them.
• Carnage emerged from the rocket’s cockpit and covered the rocket as its launch became impossible to stop.
• Peter dealt with infected NASA employees while Coulson learned the rocket could not be stopped, then Peter climbed aboard to prevent a midair strike that could spread Carnage’s fragments.
• Peter explained that Cletus had planned to force him to fight aboard the rocket and chose to confront Carnage rather than let him infect half the United States.
• Peter fought Carnage on the rocket’s hull, but Knull stabilized Carnage after Peter’s Anti-Venom began breaking down the symbiotes.
• Peter recognized Knull’s interference and vowed to defeat both him and Carnage.

Peter fought Carnage on a NASA rocket while Coulson and the team tried to redirect its flight into the Atlantic. As the rocket launched, Cletus emerged in an armored form to confront Peter, who had 118 seconds to stop him before the payload fairing separated.

• Coulson told Peter that Cletus had taken control of NASA employees and locked down the rocket's launch sequence, while Fitz warned that an explosion's effects were unpredictable.
• Peter ordered Coulson to send the rocket into the Atlantic, then used Anti-Venom to clear symbiote biomass from its exterior as Carnage minions attacked him.
• Fitz sent Peter instructions for shifting the rocket, but the team could not finish hacking its systems before the launch began.
• Peter clung to the ascending rocket and called out Cletus, who emerged as Carnage and bound Peter's limbs.
• Cletus explained that he had set the trap and hardened his body into armor, while Peter declared that he could defeat him within two minutes.