Chapter Summaries

Jude revealed Green Waltz, a powerful transforming weapon, and used recovery potions to restore the Bat Family after destroying Wayne Manor and the Batcave. The Bat Family set out to confront the Court of Owls, with Bridget joining them to avenge Man-Bull.

• Coulson and Melinda May saw a green beam near Wayne Manor and connected it to Jude Herbert, whose location had recently been traced to Wayne Tower.
• Jude showed the Bat Family Green Waltz, which could shrink into a lighter, and explained that its test shot had not been at full power.
• Jude gave the Bat Family recovery potions that quickly healed their injuries.
• Bruce sent Alfred, Jude, and Ivy to Estate Number Three while the Bat Family prepared to pursue the Court of Owls.
• Bridget insisted on joining the Bat Family to avenge Man-Bull, and Bruce agreed after Jude supported her.

After the destruction of Wayne Manor, rumors that Bruce Wayne was dead sent Wayne Group stock plunging while Gotham’s wealthy criminals were exposed and arrested. Jude learned that Bruce had used the crisis to buy shares cheaply, and Alfred revealed he had acquired the Daily Bugle after its attacks on the Wayne Group.

• News of the attack on Wayne Manor and Bruce’s presumed death caused Wayne Group stock to hit the daily limit down, while evidence of crimes by several wealthy Gotham families led to their arrests.
• Jude woke at Wayne Manor No. 3 and learned from Alfred and Ivy that Bruce and the Bat Family had returned after arresting more than a dozen Court of Owls members.
• Bruce said the captured Owls were not the Court’s core members, and Jude warned that the organization could not be fully eradicated without destroying Gotham.
• Ivy urged Bruce to publicly prove he was alive, but Alfred explained that Bruce was waiting to reveal himself after buying up the cheaply sold Wayne Group shares.
• Jude noted that Wayne Group had also likely taken over companies belonging to the arrested families, and Ivy called the strategy capitalist.
• Alfred told Bruce he had acquired the Daily Bugle and removed its owner and editor-in-chief, J. Jonah Jameson and Eddie Brock.

Bruce Wayne and Damian Wayne restored confidence in Wayne Group and backed the investigation into the families involved in the case. After Jude trained with the Bat Family, Ivy told him that her dying father wanted to meet her, and Jude agreed to accompany her to New York.

• Bruce Wayne and Damian Wayne held a press conference, denying rumors of their deaths and reassuring investors about Wayne Group.
• Bruce Wayne backed the Gotham Police Department's investigation and announced that he had acquired shares in some of the companies under scrutiny.
• Jude continued combat training with Bruce and became skilled enough to trade blows with him, though his physical limitations left him at a disadvantage.
• Ivy told Jude that Pepper Potts had contacted her and claimed to be her half-sister.
• Ivy explained that her father had abandoned her and her mother, changed his surname to Potts, and now wanted to see Ivy because he was dying.
• Jude agreed to travel with Ivy to New York.

Jude and Ivy traveled to New York so Ivy could meet her half-sister Pepper Potts, while Bruce arranged a respectable Wayne Group position for her. Ivy confronted Pepper about their father’s abandonment, and the chapter ended when Tony Stark appeared in the car’s holographic system to defend Pepper.

• Jude asked Bruce to give Ivy a respectable identity, and Bruce made her honorary president of a Wayne Group newspaper.
• Bridget chose to stay in Gotham and help purge the Court of Owls.
• Jude and Ivy flew to New York and met Pepper Potts at the airport.
• During the drive, Ivy accused Pepper and their father, Roger Potts, of abandoning her and her mother for twenty years.
• Pepper apologized and said she had only learned the truth a few days earlier, then Tony Stark appeared as a hologram and warned them not to upset Pepper.

Tony Stark angered Ivy by insulting Jude, and Jude disabled Stark’s car program while Ivy demanded that Stark apologize. Pepper brought Ivy to the hospital to meet Roger, and Ivy entered his room alone while Jude waited outside.

• Tony Stark appeared through a hologram in Pepper’s car, provoking Pepper by defending his secret monitoring program and insulting Jude.
• Jude shut down the program with a metal filament, and Ivy told Pepper that Stark had to apologize to Jude in person.
• Jude said he would collect a cost for Stark’s insults, while Stark asked Jarvis for advice about winning Pepper over and realized he had feelings for her.
• Pepper led Ivy and Jude to Roger’s hospital room, where Jude encouraged Ivy and waited outside as she went in to speak with Roger alone.
• Roger asked Pepper to leave the room so he could speak privately with Ivy.

Pepper asked Jude to help her reconnect with Ivy, but learned Ivy had become an honorary president of the Daily Bugle and a Wayne Group representative. After Roger died, Ivy broke down in Jude’s arms, while Tony rushed to the hospital to comfort Pepper.

• Pepper told Jude that Roger was dying of multiple organ failure and asked him to persuade Ivy to let her help.
• Jude told Pepper that Ivy had become the Daily Bugle’s honorary president and a special representative of Wayne Group through Bruce Wayne.
• Pepper assumed Ivy had slept with Bruce, but Jude denied it and said he and Ivy were close to Bruce.
• Ivy told Pepper that Roger had died, then clung to Jude and cried over her confusing feelings about his death.
• Tony flew to the hospital in his Power Armor and struggled through a crowd of fans to reach his important friend.

After Roger's death, Tony Stark tried to persuade Ivy to attend her father's funeral, but his offer of money and insistence angered Jude. Jude challenged Tony over his own painful childhood, then left with Ivy, while Tony remained behind to reflect.

• Pepper asked Ivy to attend Roger's funeral, and Ivy said she would consider it but could not promise.
• Tony followed Jude and Ivy, then tried to persuade Ivy to attend the funeral, offering her money when she refused to commit.
• Jude stood up for Ivy and accused Tony of using money to pressure her for Pepper's sake.
• Tony punched Jude after Jude brought up Tony's father, but Jude caught the blow and knocked him down.
• Jude left with Ivy and warned Tony that he would repay him for an earlier insult.

Jude used the computers at an internet café to search for Tony Stark and break through Jarvis’s firewall. He gained the highest permission level, leaving him with unrestricted access to Stark’s systems.

• Ivy recovered at the hotel, changed into business attire, and went to the Daily Bugle for her first day on the job.
• Jude took a taxi to an internet café and connected his metal filaments to its network.
• Jude used more than ten computers to filter billions of addresses and locate Tony Stark’s connection through the Stark Group website.
• Jude examined Jarvis’s firewall and used a new intrusion method to bypass it.
• Jarvis accepted Jude’s password and granted him the highest permission level.

Jude hacked Tony Stark's account, transferred 10 billion USD, and copied the Mark 5 armor blueprints before leaving the system. At the Daily Bugle, Ivy Pepper arrived as honorary president and met Peter Parker just as Eddie Brock was thrown out of Harvey Jones's office.

• Jude used a legitimate identity to access Tony Stark's account, transferred 10 billion USD, and downloaded the Mark 5 armor blueprints.
• Ivy Pepper arrived at the Daily Bugle, where receptionist Cynthia recognized her as the honorary president appointed by Wayne Group.
• Ivy met Peter Parker in the elevator and asked him to show her to the president's office.
• Peter's Spider-Sense warned him moments before Eddie Brock crashed through a glass door and was pinned down by security guards.
• Harvey Jones rejected Eddie Brock's plea and ordered him to leave or face the police.

Ivy declined to intervene when Eddie Brock was fired, while Harvey Jones hired Peter Parker as a full-time Daily Bugle reporter. At Pepper Potts’s home, Tony Stark learned that Jarvis had been hacked and that the intruder had stolen $10 billion and the Iron Man Armor Mark 5 blueprints.

• Harvey Jones told Ivy that Eddie Brock had written false stories about the Wayne Group and had been fired.
• Peter Parker said Jameson had likely forced Eddie to write the stories, and Eddie pleaded with Ivy not to let the Wayne Group blacklist him.
• Ivy left the decision to Harvey Jones, who ordered security to remove Eddie Brock.
• Harvey Jones praised Peter Parker for refusing to publish false reporting and offered him a full-time job at the Daily Bugle.
• At Pepper Potts’s home, Tony Stark spoke with Jarvis, who reported that a hacker had stolen $10 billion and the Iron Man Armor Mark 5 blueprints.

Tony discovered that an intruder had stolen 10 billion USD and the Mark 5 armor blueprints by deceiving Jarvis, then traced the hacker to two Manhattan internet cafes. The search ended with Happy finding a decoy and a mocking message instead of the intruder.

• Tony hurried to his secret base after Jarvis revealed that the intruder had stolen 10 billion USD and the Power Armor blueprints.
• Tony reviewed surveillance footage and sent Happy the video and information about people who had been at Quark Internet Cafe.
• Jarvis traced the money through 1,000,001 accounts to a network breach associated with Green Fields Internet Cafe.
• Tony ordered Happy to search private room number three at Green Fields Internet Cafe, believing he had found the intruder.
• Happy grabbed a hooded figure, which collapsed into leather straps, a mop, and a football bearing the words, "A room temperature IQ!"

Jude left the Green Field Internet Cafe with strawberry ice cream while Tony Stark tried to trace the hooded man who had stolen his Power Armor blueprints. After discovering the 10 billion USD had been distributed to fund Hope Schools in China, Tony withdrew his surveillance and Happy suggested the theft was likely personal revenge by one individual.

• Jude ate strawberry ice cream as he walked away from the Stark New Energy Vehicle, leaving his newly bought hooded trench coat behind.
• Tony asked Jarvis to recover the surveillance footage, but Jarvis reported that it had all been deleted.
• Jarvis traced the 10 billion USD through nearly a million private accounts to twenty-eight organizations funding Hope Schools in impoverished areas of China.
• Tony ordered Jarvis to withdraw from China's networks, erase their traces, and compare the hooded man's appearance against people in the United States.
• Happy told Tony that witnesses remembered nothing about the hooded man, then suggested one person might have acted alone to take revenge on Tony.

Jude sought out Wade Wilson, also known as Deadpool, hoping to study him, and learned that the mercenary would be away for half a month. Meanwhile, Eddie Brock blamed those who had rejected him as a mass of black matter moved above him in the church.

• Jude donated the ten billion dollars across China's provincial Red Cross branches and checked in with Ivy, who said her first day at the Daily Bugle had gone well.
• Jude went to Black Rose Bar, endured the Death Rose drinking challenge, and asked the assassins there to arrange a meeting with Wade Wilson.
• The bartender told Jude that Wade was on a job and would not return for about half a month, so Jude left his contact information.
• Jude returned to the hotel and studied Tony's Mark 5 armor blueprints while Ivy was still out.
• Eddie Brock went to an empty church, blamed Wayne Group, Ivy Pepper, Harvey Jones, Jameson, and Peter Parker for his misfortune, and smashed a bench as black matter writhed above him.

Eddie Brock bonded with the symbiote Venom and gained the power to pursue revenge. Meanwhile, Jude stole billions, created a new identity, and encouraged Ivy before her meeting with influential officials.

• Venom covered Eddie Brock, identified itself as a symbiote, and bonded with him.
• Eddie tested their strength by smashing through a church wall, then called Jameson to arrange a meeting with his enemy.
• Jude transferred $162 billion from accounts at five major U.S. banks into accounts he had created.
• Jude fabricated the identity of Bond Heissem, a Latverian heir who had entered the United States two months earlier.
• Ivy told Jude she was nervous about meeting officials and influential Daily Bugle associates, and he reassured her.

Jude decided to buy a research institute so he could build his own laboratory without relying on Wayne Group. He offered Pampas Research Center’s owner, Pandeni, forty billion dollars and waited for his answer.

• Jude searched for a research institute to buy and chose the bankrupt Pampas Research Center in Queens.
• Jude arranged a meeting with Pandeni and bought two sports cars, then drove a Bugatti Veyron to the institute.
• Pandeni explained that Pampas was insolvent and claimed several major corporations were interested in buying it.
• Jude offered Pandeni forty billion dollars for the research center, excluding its patents, and demanded an immediate answer.

Jude bought the Pampas Research Center from Pandeni for forty billion dollars and tasked him with rapidly sourcing equipment and materials for a new laboratory. On his drive back to the hotel, Jude heard that J. Jonah Jameson had been murdered.

• Jude offered Pandeni forty billion dollars for the research center, provided Pandeni helped procure supplies for a laboratory.
• Pandeni checked Jude's identity, then signed the sale contract with a clause voiding it if the money failed to arrive within a week.
• Jude handed Pandeni a long list of advanced equipment and scarce, hazardous materials, and told him to prioritize speed over cost.
• Pandeni estimated the procurement would cost around seventy-eight billion dollars, and Jude authorized a budget of eighty billion.
• Jude heard a radio report that J. Jonah Jameson had been murdered and reflected that the former Daily Bugle president had made many enemies.

Eddie Brock attacked a celebrity banquet at the Hilton Hotel, where he found and killed Harvey Jones. Ivy Pepper and the other guests remained in danger as Eddie searched for his next target.

• Ivy Pepper chatted with guests about fitness and revealed that she considered herself close friends with Bruce Wayne.
• Eddie Brock entered the Hilton Hotel after learning that Harvey Jones and Ivy Pepper were attending a banquet there.
• Eddie Brock shattered the entrance, knocked out the security guards with Venom, and threatened the guests into silence.
• Eddie Brock dragged Harvey Jones before him, beat him, and stomped him to death.

After Eddie Brock rampaged through the Daily Bugle and killed Harvey Jones, he confronted Ivy Pepper at a banquet and attacked her. Peter Parker arrived as Spider-Man to stop him, but Venom struck back and sent him flying.

• Peter Parker returned to the Daily Bugle and learned that Eddie Brock had wrecked the office while searching for him, Ivy Pepper, and Harvey Jones.
• Eddie Brock killed Harvey Jones at the banquet and forced Chairman Bill to identify Ivy Pepper.
• Ivy Pepper stepped forward to face Eddie Brock, who snapped Chairman Bill’s neck and threatened to kill her and Peter Parker.
• Venom attacked Ivy, but Spider-Man crashed through a window and kicked Venom into a pillar.
• Spider-Man ordered the guests to flee and challenged Venom, who caught his webbing and hurled him backward.

Spider-Man fought Venom through the Hilton Hotel but could not defeat him, forcing Ivy to reveal her powers and rescue him. Jude arrived to face Venom, whose rampage continued as the chapter ended.

• Venom knocked Spider-Man down and mocked him while Ivy refused to flee.
• Peter Parker attacked Venom and tried to lure him away from the crowded hotel, but Venom saw through his plan.
• Spider-Man wrapped Venom in webbing, but Venom broke free, smashed through the hotel floors, and nearly unmasked him.
• Ivy revealed herself by striking Venom with sharp petals and pulling Spider-Man to safety with vines.
• Jude arrived and froze half of Venom with a Freezing Ray, then identified the monster as their target.

Jude killed Venom with Green Waltz and discovered that Peter Parker was Spider-Man, while Ivy learned that her employee was the masked hero. As police and helicopters arrived, the group split up, and Jude left with a piece of Venom to prepare for the first great melee.

• Jude dismissed stories about the symbiotes' origins and killed Venom with a single shot from Green Waltz.
• Peter Parker tried to leave, but Jude revealed that he knew Peter was Spider-Man.
• Ivy recognized Peter as her Daily Bugle employee and realized he was Spider-Man.
• Jude removed Peter's mask and warned him that his job depended on how he performed.
• As sirens and helicopters approached, Spider-Man swung away, Ivy pretended to be frightened, and Jude left invisibly with a piece of Venom.