Chapter Summaries

After returning to Earth, Ben learned that five Collision Crises had already taken place and reunited with his friends in Wakanda. As they discussed the growing danger, Shuri detected two new collisions beginning.

• Ben returned to Earth after leaving the affairs of Beast Ring to Caiera and the Galactic Plumbers.
• Eunice told Ben that Peter was already in college and reported that the Collision Crises were intensifying.
• T'Challa and Tony described how they had destroyed five Earths and fought the Avengers of another universe during the fifth crisis.
• Tony asked whether Norman Osborn would bring back the Thunderbolts because the team was short-handed.
• Shuri arrived and warned that instruments had detected spatial fluctuations and that two collisions were about to begin.

As two Earths threatened to collide with their world, the heroes debated whether to use the Annihilation Weapon while preparing to face the crisis. Loki and Thor encountered Doctor Paradox in Knowhere and learned that Maltruant and Void Illusion had joined forces; the chapter ended with the Thunderbolts organizing a defense in Wakanda.

• Shuri proposed destroying both approaching Earths with the Annihilation Weapon, but T’Challa and Otto refused, and Tony said reinforcements would soon return.
• Loki and Thor found themselves trapped in Knowhere, where the Bifrost could not reach their universe.
• Doctor Paradox appeared, survived Loki’s dagger by returning to a moment before the attack, and opened a passage for Loki and Thor to leave.
• Doctor Paradox warned that Maltruant and Void Illusion had joined forces and that Maltruant was gathering his old adversaries.
• In Wakanda, the Thunderbolts prepared for the approaching Earths as Peter questioned the cost of destroying worlds and Norman organized their defense.

Eunice and the others divided into teams to prepare for the approaching Earth collisions, with some staying behind to monitor the antimatter bomb. Felicia and Looma joined Ben’s team after reuniting with him, and Felicia ended the chapter by proposing an outrageous group encounter.

• Eunice warned that the two approaching Earths might have different collision schedules, while Otto cautioned that the available time could shrink.
• Stark and Norman arranged the deployment teams, assigning Peter and Harry with Stark and sending Captain and T'Challa with Ben.
• Felicia and Looma arrived on Earth after recovering from the Builders’ attack and joined Ben’s side.
• Looma charged at Ben in a forceful greeting, but Ben blocked her without transforming.
• Felicia hugged Ben and suggested inviting Looma, Eunice, and Wanda to join them, while warning him not to transform into Four Arms.

Ben discovered that Steve had been replaced by an Atasian and ordered an investigation into a suspected Highbreed temperature-control tower. As the two Earths began an eight-hour countdown to collision, Ben and the others set out for the second Earth.

• Norman told Ben that Steve had been unusually silent and seemed surprised by the Incursean threat, so Ben used his watch to scan him.
• Ben's watch identified Steve as an Atasian, and Ben told Norman to search for abnormal temperature drops and a tower while they tried to locate the real Steve.
• The two Earths appeared above Wakanda, and Tony, Peter, and the Plumber team prepared to investigate the other planet.
• Ben flew toward the second Earth as Jetray with Felicia, while Looma flew on her fire-powered hammer and T'Challa and [Steve] followed using thrusters.

Tony Stark's group arrived in a ruined world and found a large population of survivors, but a little red-haired girl revealed herself to be a rotting, hungry monster. As a crowd of similar creatures closed in, Wanda noted that they still seemed conscious.

• Tony Stark warned the group that the Mapmakers might have destroyed the world, while Eunice detected signs of life and no Mapmaker response.
• The group descended into the ruins and saw hundreds of figures gathering around them.
• Pietro approached a frightened red-haired girl, but she lunged at him and revealed her rotting face.
• Peter webbed the girl and pulled Pietro away, then warned the group about infection and called for them to find Alice.
• Tony Stark spotted a dense crowd advancing as the creatures repeated that they were hungry.
• Wanda reminded the group that the monsters appeared to have their own consciousness.

Tony, Peter, Harry, and their companions struggled to hold off a horde of zombies without killing them, then discovered that this world’s Iron Man and Avengers had become zombies too. The Zombie Avengers attacked as the group faced the threat from both the horde and the undead heroes.

• Peter suggested that Ben might be able to cure the zombies, while Tony warned the group to keep their distance and searched the network for information about this world’s Super Heroes.
• Peter and Harry used their Sonic Rings, but only the sound waves’ physical force slowed the zombies; Harry’s Pumpkin Bomb discs and the toxins also failed to stop them.
• When the zombies charged, Wanda knocked them back with a shockwave, allowing the others to retreat before missiles struck Tony and sent his armor plummeting.
• Friday identified the attacker as Tony, and Zombie Iron Man descended, calling the living fresh meat.
• Peter pointed out Zombie Avengers on a nearby rooftop, and zombie Steve Rogers, Doctor Strange, and Thor launched an attack on the group.

Peter transformed into Humungousaur and battled the enraged Zombie Hulk, while Harry fought Zombie Spider-Man and the other zombies. The fight left the battlefield stunned as Peter and Hulk grew larger and stronger with each clash.

• Harry claimed Zombie Black Panther, Zombie Hawkeye, and Zombie Black Widow as his opponents, while Tony, Wanda, and Eunice chose their own fights.
• Pietro took on Zombie Spider-Man so Peter would not have to fight his zombified counterpart, leaving Peter to face Hulk.
• Tony warned Peter that Hulk might bite his head off, but Peter transformed into Humungousaur and sent Hulk flying with a punch.
• Harry used his armor and enhanced strength to fight Zombie Spider-Man, then threw him away after the zombie underestimated him.
• Humungousaur and Hulk traded powerful blows and grew larger as their anger rose, leaving Zombie Spider-Man and Zombie Captain America stunned.

Peter and his allies fought the zombie heroes using Alien Hero powers and Galactic Plumbers technology, while Tony battled Zombie Iron Man. The battle shifted when a mysterious zombie wearing an Onmitrix appeared and subdued Hulk.

• Peter transformed Humungousaur into Gravattack and trapped Hulk in a gravitational cage, while Pietro defeated Black Panther with the Infrasound Device.
• Harry used the Gravity Device to immobilize the three zombie Peters, and Tony praised the technology as he fought Zombie Iron Man.
• Tony drew his upgraded Flame Greatsword and attacked Zombie Iron Man, but Zombie Captain America knocked the blade and grabbed Tony by the throat before Tony blasted him away.
• Eunice trapped Zombie Thor in an illusion, and Wanda imprisoned Zombie Doctor Strange in a Manna Sphere.
• Hulk shattered Gravattack's gravity field, but a bluish-gray zombie ordered him to stand down, and Hulk cowered before him.
• Peter noticed the black-and-white Onmitrix on the stranger's wrist and wondered if he was Benny from a parallel universe.

Zombie Ben arrived to destroy the Marvel Zombie Universe, but the heroes rejected his plan to let both worlds perish in their collision. He trapped them in a regenerating block cage, absorbed the armor and shield of zombie Iron Man and Captain America, and forced Peter’s Heatblast attack to endanger his own friends.

• Tony ordered Friday to photograph Zombie Ben, while Peter and Wanda tried to confirm who he was.
• Zombie Ben explained that he had come to eliminate the Zombie Universe and proposed that everyone let the colliding worlds be destroyed together.
• After Pietro rejected his proposal, Zombie Ben transformed into Zombie Block Ape and sealed the heroes inside a regenerating block cage.
• Harry blasted holes in the cage, but Zombie Ben absorbed zombie Iron Man’s armor and Captain America’s shield and formed Adamantium armor.
• Peter transformed into Heatblast and fired flames at Block Ape, but the sealed cage trapped the heat and left Tony, Harry, and the others suffering.

Peter, Tony, Wanda, Eunice, and Pietro fought Zombie Ben as he tried to kill them, but their combined attacks failed to finish him. As Wanda sensed energy flowing from a distant dimension, an orange-haired Witch in blue robes recognized that their chance had come.

• Peter refused to kill his friends, and Zombie Ben remembered fragments of his family before deciding to attack the group.
• Zombie Ben compressed the space around Peter and the others and unleashed a barrage of weapons, while Wanda and Eunice combined their powers to shield them.
• Wanda and the others survived the explosion that shattered Zombie Ben's body, and Tony and Peter charged him with attacks.
• Zombie Ben transformed into Zombie Heatblast and pierced Peter, but Pietro rescued him while Wanda and Eunice struck Zombie Ben with a barrage of spells.
• Wanda sensed a second Manna Dimension supplying her with energy, while a distant orange-haired Witch in blue robes told Doctor that their chance had come.

Tian Xiaowen and Wanda joined the fight against Zombie Ben, but his enhanced Atomix overwhelmed them and left the team badly injured. Doctor Animo arrived and took the survivors away, while Zombie Ben warned that both worlds would be destroyed in seven hours.

• Tian Xiaowen appeared and attacked Zombie Ben with Alpha Runes, while Wanda helped bind him with a spell Ben had taught her.
• Zombie Ben transformed into Atomix and broke through the group’s defenses with energy boosted by the Arc Reactor.
• Peter transformed into Rhino Beetle and absorbed Atomix’s blast, then returned the energy and cracked Atomix’s shell.
• Atomix tore off Rhino Beetle’s horn, crushed Tony Stark’s armor, and blasted the group; Tian Xiaowen teleported them to safety but collapsed from exhaustion.
• Doctor Animo arrived on a giant frog and carried Tian Xiaowen, Wanda, Eunice, and the others away with prehistoric creatures.
• Zombie Ben let Animo leave, warning that the two worlds would be destroyed together in seven hours.

Peter and his allies treated Stark while Doctor Animo explained why he refused to share the zombie-virus research with a vast network of scientists. Tian Xiaowen recounted how Ben Tennyson became a self-aware living dead, and Ben Parker identified a possible way to defeat him by exploiting the Omnitrix’s protections.

• Doctor Animo treated Stark with a healing serum and discovered Peter was using a replica Omnitrix made by Benny.
• Animo refused to upload the zombie-virus data to the Plumbers’ research network because someone might recreate the virus, so Peter contacted Ben Parker.
• Tian Xiaowen described her summer with Ben Tennyson and explained that the zombie virus and Murder Pathogen had turned him into a self-aware living dead.
• Xiaowen revealed that Ben Tennyson sought to stop the virus by killing every infected person, including their grandfather.
• Ben Parker told Eunice that Ben Tennyson’s deteriorated cells might let them bypass the Omnitrix’s genetic protections and remove his watch.

Tony argued that the group could not risk letting the zombie virus escape Earth, while Peter and the others persuaded him to try finding a cure before destroying the planet. Meanwhile, Ben and his companions discovered that Hydra ruled the other universe under Steve Rogers.

• Tony argued against taking Zombie Ben Tennyson's watch and said the infected universe might need to be destroyed.
• Tian Xiaowen revealed that she knew of survivor camps and offered to mark their locations, but Tony insisted that nobody could leave Earth.
• Tony said he would not let potentially infected survivors or his own group carry the virus into another universe, while Peter urged him to try finding a cure first.
• Eunice supported Peter's proposal, and the group agreed to attempt a cure before activating the Annihilation Weapon.
• Ben and his companions encountered Steve Rogers, who wore a Hydra emblem and ruled the universe as Captain Hydra.

Ben told Hydra-controlled Earth that its people had to evacuate to another planet before the worlds collided, while Steve Rogers delayed deciding whether to comply. Ben and his companions examined Hydra’s rule and discovered that the world’s history had been rewritten a year earlier, leaving the cause of Hydra’s takeover unresolved.

• Ben told Steve Rogers that Earth’s people had to relocate before the planets collided and warned him that only eight hours remained.
• Steve refused to decide immediately and said he needed to consult his cabinet, while Ben disabled the Helicarrier’s surveillance and saw him out.
• Felicia and T’Challa questioned whether they should save a world ruled by Hydra, and Ben said their mission was to save lives regardless of who governed.
• Ben explained that Hydra’s rule had sharply reduced recorded crime and unemployment through strict surveillance and authority, while imposing high-pressure control.
• Felicia and T’Challa learned that the world’s history had been altered a year earlier in what people called the Great Illusion, and Ben suspected that an event then had enabled Hydra’s takeover.

The Hydra Cabinet debated how to deal with Ben’s group, and Steve agreed to evacuate Earth while seeking information about the Collision Crisis. Ben’s group saw the evacuation begin in Washington, unaware that someone was secretly watching them.

• Dr. Zola urged the Hydra Cabinet to attack, while Baron Zemo and Mr. Faust argued for gathering intelligence before acting.
• Steve entered the meeting, agreed that destroying the other Earth was acceptable, and later told Ben that Hydra would evacuate its civilians but wanted more information about the Collision Crisis.
• Ben explained that Earths were drawing universes together and that destroying an Earth was the most cost-effective way to address the crisis.
• T’Challa asked to look around Washington, and Steve agreed while hoping to keep the group occupied.
• T’Challa found an evacuation notice as spacecraft and civilians began moving toward designated locations; Looma criticized Hydra’s subjects as puppet-like.
• An unseen observer watched Ben’s group from among Washington’s buildings.

Miles Morales and Viv met Ben and his group, hoping they would help the resistance against Hydra. Ben explained that Earth had to be evacuated before an imminent collision, but Miles and Viv warned that Hydra’s evacuation plan was a deception.

• Miles, Kamala, Amadeus Cho, and Viv debated contacting Ben’s group and split up, with Miles and Viv going to meet them.
• Ben sensed Miles, used Ghost Plugins to fool Hydra’s surveillance, and led his companions to the meeting place.
• Ben recognized Miles Morales from another universe, and Miles and Viv asked his group to help them resist Hydra.
• T’Challa explained that two Earths would collide in less than seven hours and that Steve Rogers had agreed to evacuate Earth.
• Miles and Viv insisted Hydra could not evacuate Earth and warned that Captain Marvel and Quasar would attack when the Planetary Shield opened.
• Ben suspected Hydra was using the evacuation as a pretext to mobilize its forces and seize the planet.

Ben and his companions joined the Las Vegas resistance after learning Hydra had secretly deceived them, and they decoded Rick Jones's files about Steve Rogers. The evidence revealed that Hydra had used the Cosmic Cube to turn Steve into Captain Hydra.

• Steve Rogers ordered Hydra to watch Ben's group and argued with Hive and Doctor Faustus about how to handle them.
• Ben rejected T'Challa's plan to destroy Earth and urged Miles and Viv to evacuate survivors instead.
• The resistance escaped Hydra's robots in a car that Ben upgraded, then reached the Las Vegas underground base.
• Ben decoded Rick Jones's USB drive, which revealed Hydra's use of the Cosmic Cube to transform Steve Rogers into Captain Hydra.
• The Highbreed Steve recognized the Cosmic Cube and began trembling.

Ben and the resistance debated how to respond to Steve Rogers joining Hydra and whether to pursue the Cosmic Cube fragments. They assigned missions, with Ben redirecting the Highbreed away from the Cube, then Ben offered to repair the air conditioner and visit the paralyzed Tony Stark.

• Felicia asked what the Cosmic Cube did, and AI Tony appeared, complained about the broken air conditioner, and insulted Ben.
• Ben pressed the resistance to choose between pursuing Hydra and escaping Earth, while Tony argued that the evidence from Rick Jones might be a trap.
• The informant defended Rick Jones, and [Steve] urged the group to investigate because he wanted the Cosmic Cube.
• [Steve] proposed splitting up to collect fragments from Wakanda, Atlantis, Mutant Nation, and Ultron Domain, intending to secure the fragments for himself.
• Ben changed the assignments, sending the Highbreed to infiltrate Hydra and Felicia to assist Looma, while Hawkeye proposed sending someone else to Atlantis.
• Ben asked AI Tony to take him to the laboratory so he could repair the air conditioner and water the paralyzed Tony Stark.

Benny helped Tony repair the base’s air conditioning and prepare engines and badges for the evacuation mission, while Hawkeye assigned teams to gather resources and rescue people. As the teams prepared to move, Tony revealed that Steve had killed Bucky Barnes.

• Benny transformed into Freeze Lizard and cooled Tony’s laboratory with a crystal, then insisted Tony call him Dad.
• Benny and Looma built Draxian Star Engines and distributed nanotechnology badges that could upgrade engines and reinforce vehicles.
• Hawkeye assigned teams to infiltrate Hydra headquarters, seek a Cosmic Cube fragment in Wakanda, contact Sinthea, and secure Atlantis and Hydra ships.
• Quicksilver joined Looma and Black Cat’s team, while Hawkeye explained that Scarlet Witch and Vision served Hydra and Thor still supported Steve.
• Tony told the group that Steve had killed Bucky Barnes, shocking T’Challa.

Ben, Ant-Man, and Wasp entered Ultron Domain to retrieve the Cosmic Cube Fragment and found Doctor Pym hosting them in an Avengers Mansion replica. Hydra arrived to claim the fragment, and Ben blocked their signals as the two groups faced off.

• Ben, Scott, and Hope crossed the lifeless metal landscape of Alaska and followed Jarvis to a mansion modeled on Avengers Mansion.
• Ben and Scott chatted over drinks and snacks while Hope urged them to focus on retrieving the fragment.
• Doctor Pym, merged with Ultron, welcomed the trio and said he knew about their mission and the approaching Earth, but asked them to wait for other guests.
• Vision, Baron Zemo, Taskmaster, Black Ant, and other Hydra warriors arrived, prompting Hope to accuse Doctor Pym of giving them the Cube Fragment.
• Baron Zemo recognized Ben and tried to contact Hydra headquarters, but Ben blocked every signal in the area.