Chapter Summaries

Ben brought Hela to join the fight against the Cancerverse, where Lord Marvel and Evil Ben prepared a ritual to exploit Death’s destruction and planned to destroy another universe’s Earth. Ben arrived through the universal wall with Hela, Looma, and Charmcaster to rescue Eunice, Wanda, and the other captives, while the Cancerverse Avengers prepared to use the badge signal to trap their rescuers.

• Ben explained the Cancerverse mission to Hela, who eagerly accepted him as her king and agreed to depart immediately.
• In the Cancerverse, Lord Marvel ordered the captured heroes imprisoned and took Thanos toward the sacrificial site, while Evil Ben joined him to seek greater power.
• Ben used the Time and Space Wheel to enter the Cancerverse, and his group followed the badge signal toward a space base near the Kree Empire.
• Cancerverse Captain Marvel threw Carol into a cell and revealed that the villains had prepared to capture anyone who came to rescue the prisoners.

Ben and his allies attacked the Cancerverse base to rescue Eunice and the others, while the Cancerverse Avengers prepared an ambush. Hela discovered she could kill the supposedly immortal Cancerverse natives and advanced through the base, invoking both Death and the Sakaar King.

• The Cancerverse Avengers taunted their bound prisoners and ordered their forces to gather after Ben arrived at the base.
• Ben entered the enormous base with Looma, Hela, and Charmcaster, then split up with Hela and Looma while Charmcaster stayed near him.
• Hela sensed that Death was absent from the universe and hurried toward the Cancerverse forces.
• Hela killed Kree soldiers led by Ronan, confirming to their terrified forces that she could kill them.
• Hela beheaded Ronan and called for her brothers to emerge.

Hela and Looma fought the Cancerverse attackers, using powers tied to Ben to kill enemies who had seemed immortal. Hela left Cancerverse Thor and Cancerverse Loki pinned down, while Looma killed Hulk and Queen Venom Mary Jane.

• Hela revealed that her death power came from sharing Ben's authority and concluded that Ben was the Agent of Death the Cancerverse had sought.
• Cancerverse Thor attacked Hela with Mjolnir, but she returned his lightning and shattered Thor and Cancerverse Loki before pinning them to the ground with black blades.
• Looma fought the Cancerverse attackers with her Divine Hammer and smashed Cancerverse Hulk into pieces.
• Looma drew the Eskron Divine Sword and killed Cancerverse Hulk, whose flesh rotted away.
• Looma struck Queen Venom Mary Jane with her sword after stripping the black matter from her, then asked who would fight next.

Cancerverse Captain Marvel realized Ben Parker was the real Coroner and planned to seize him with the help of the Cancerverse Celestials and Star Eater Engine. Meanwhile, Lord Marvel began the ritual to offer Thanos to the Elder Gods, but Death returned and killed Marvel as Evil Ben made his move.

• Cancerverse Tony concluded that the captured Coroner was a fake and identified Ben Parker as the real one, while Captain Marvel and Cancerverse Steve discussed capturing Ben with their strongest forces.
• Lord Marvel brought Thanos and Evil Ben to the ritual site, where Evil Ben suspected Rampage Ben had escaped and kept his thoughts hidden.
• Lord Marvel stabbed Thanos with the dagger and offered him to the Elder Gods, who devoured his body and soul.
• Death appeared, took the dagger, killed Lord Marvel, and turned toward the Elder Gods as Evil Ben moved.

Ben and the Galactic Plumbers survived the destruction of the Cancerverse Avengers Base and struck back at the Cancerverse forces. As the Celestials summoned the Star Eater Engine, Ben transformed into Giant God to face it.

• Ben’s Spider-Sense warned him just before the Cancerverse Avengers Base was hit by dozens of powerful beams, and he swallowed Charmcaster to protect her.
• The Cancerverse Celestials believed Ben and the others had been killed, but Ben ambushed Cancerverse Tony and wounded Captain Marvel with Death Thorns.
• Tony Stark revealed that Looma had rescued the team before the base exploded and that Eunice had protected them with the Infinity Stones and Cosmic Cube.
• Ben sent Wanda to take the exhausted Galactic Plumbers back to Sakaar, while Carol defeated Cancerverse Carol with a Binary Form punch.
• The Cancerverse Celestials opened a passageway and brought forth the Star Eater Engine, and Ben transformed into Giant God to confront it.

Ben and his allies fought the Cancerverse Celestials while Evil Ben completed a ritual to seize the power of Death. The battle continued as Evil Ben secretly controlled the Cancerverse and delayed the deaths of its inhabitants.

• Ben, Looma, Hela, and Eunice attacked the Celestials, and Ben killed The Analyst while Looma beheaded The Judge.
• Ben killed The Explorer and The Measurer as the Celestials realized they could die.
• Death watched the slaughter and discovered that a mortal had blocked Her blade and that the mortal carried a watch like Ben's.
• Evil Ben completed the ritual, claimed the power of death, slew the Elder Gods, and took a piece of their flesh before vanishing.
• Eunice and Hela killed Celestials, while Cancerverse Carol lost her immortality and then regained her abilities.
• Evil Ben watched the battle from within the cracks of the universe and held back the Cancerverse's deaths while he sought more time.

Evil Ben claimed the power of the Five Major Abstracts and destroyed the Star Eater Engine before confronting Ben. Ben transformed into an incomplete Alien X, where he found Hope in its consciousness space.

• Ben considered collecting the dead Celestials as materials while the Star Eater Engine charged up.
• Eunice warned Ben that the engine's energy could destroy several universes, so Ben prepared to transform into Alien X.
• Evil Ben appeared atop the engine, revealed he had gathered the powers of the Five Major Abstracts, and caused the engine to collapse.
• Evil Ben annihilated the surviving Celestials and taunted Ben about their coming fight.
• Ben transformed into Alien X, then found Hope beside him in Alien X's consciousness space.

Ben fought Evil Ben, who had gathered the power of the Five Major Abstracts, while Charmcaster watched from inside Alien X and awakened the Phoenix Force. The battle shook the multiverse, and observers wondered whether the Five Major Abstracts had merged or planned to reshape reality.

• Ben realized Charmcaster was trapped inside Alien X after he had merged her into Swampfire and failed to release her.
• Charmcaster watched Looma, Eunice, and Hela lose to Evil Ben, then wished she could awaken the Phoenix Force to help Ben.
• Charmcaster's wish was approved, and Ben took control of Alien X in time to save Hela from a devastating blow.
• Evil Ben called Alien X “X Cthulhu” and revealed that he had gathered other Ben Tennysons beyond Rampage Ben.
• Evil Ben and Ben traded blows across the universe, destroying stars and galaxies as their fight shook the multiverse.
• The Time Administration Bureau, the Spider Alliance, and other observers detected the immense energy and speculated about the Five Major Abstracts.

Ben Parker turned Charmcaster’s awakened Phoenix Force into the complete Phoenix by using the Omnitrix’s Infinite Receiver and removing its capture restrictions. As the X-Phoenix emerged, Evil Ben faced a power that could challenge his ascension.

• Charmcaster awakened the Phoenix Force inside Alien X and suggested using the complete Phoenix against Evil Ben.
• Evil Ben seized Alien X and prepared to erase his existence with the powers of Death and Oblivion.
• The Phoenix flames burned Evil Ben when he grabbed Alien X, but he dismissed them as too weak to matter.
• Ben Parker used Alien X’s authority to remove the Omnitrix’s capture restrictions and captured the Phoenix Force.
• The complete Phoenix returned into Alien X, transforming Ben Parker into the X-Phoenix.

Ben used the Phoenix Force to defeat Evil Ben and cleanse the Cancerverse, then returned home with Looma and the others. Meanwhile, Maltruant sought control of time from He Who Remains Kang, while Loki found himself back in the Void and met the old man he had hoped to see.

• Ben burned Evil Ben from within with Phoenix fire, then spread the flames across the universe to destroy the Cancerverse infection without harming its victims.
• Cancerverse Wanda and Vision were freed, and the Phoenix fire remade Vision as a complete human being.
• Ben healed Looma and the others, returned with them, and repaired the cosmic rift along the way.
• At the Time Administration Bureau, Vilgax and Albedo reported that the energy had settled and assumed an unnamed figure had died; Maltruant focused on obtaining the Annihilarrgh and the Power of Time.
• Maltruant told He Who Remains Kang that his plan to destroy the universe had failed and demanded control of time, but Kang remained wary of him and favored Loki.
• Loki landed in the Void, prayed that the old man with the cane would appear, and watched the old man emerge and ask if Loki was looking for him.

After being pruned into the Void, Loki met a group of alternate Lokis led by a boy who had killed Thor. The group brought him to their shelter and explained that they had survived there by accepting that Lokis were destined for exile.

• Loki recalled his plan to change the fate of all Lokis and explained how Sylvie was captured by Albedo while he was pruned into the Void.
• Old Loki, Kid Loki, Black Loki, and Alligator Loki revealed themselves and took Loki toward their shelter.
• Loki spotted Alioth and said that killing it would allow them to escape, though Old Loki insisted no one could defeat it.
• Kid Loki revealed that he had killed Thor, earning Loki's respect.
• At the Lokis' cellar, Black Loki boasted about conquering Captain America and collecting the Infinity Stones, while Old Loki described his long exile.

Loki confronted the other pruned Lokis’ belief that their fates were fixed and urged them to fight the Time Administration Bureau by killing Alioth. He revealed that he had become Asgard’s rightful king and enjoyed a loving family, but Kid Loki pointed out that he had still been pruned.

• Old Loki explained that the Time Administration Bureau pruned Lokis who deviated from the Sacred Timeline, including him after he tried to reunite with Thor.
• Loki rejected the idea that the Lokis were failures and argued that the Bureau, not fate, had controlled their lives.
• Loki proposed killing Alioth to escape, while the other Lokis laughed at the idea.
• Loki considered that an animal version of Thor might exist and recalled that he had brought the Casket of Ancient Winters.
• Loki revealed that he had lifted Mjolnir, become Asgard’s rightful king, and lived with a happy family in an intact Asgard.
• Kid Loki replied that Loki had still been pruned.

Loki rallied the Void’s Lokis against the Time Administration Bureau and formed the Loki Committee, while Ben subdued Magik, White Queen, Colossus, and Cable after mistaking them for intruders. The chapter left Loki’s rebellion newly organized and Ben confronting the defeated mutants.

• Loki told the Void’s Lokis that they should resist the Time Administration Bureau and urged them to follow him.
• Black Loki revealed he had been an undercover agent, then pledged himself to Loki and offered to help take down the other Lokis.
• Old Loki and Kid Loki joined the rebellion, and President Loki arrived with several more Lokis.
• Loki named their group the Loki Committee and won unanimous support for taking control of time, fate, and the multiverse.
• Ben, transformed into Four Arms, defeated Magik, White Queen, Colossus, and Cable after mistaking them for criminals invading the Galactic Plumbers.

Ben defeated Magik, Cable, Colossus, and White Queen when they attacked the Galactic Plumbers' Earth Space Station to take Charmcaster. After the Plumbers arrested them, they revealed that they came from a universe where Scarlet Witch's Chaos Magic had erased the Mutants and wanted Charmcaster and the Phoenix Force to revive them, but Ben refused to let them take her.

• Magik and the others planned to rescue Charmcaster, but Charmcaster left with Ben before they could act.
• Magik, Cable, Colossus, and White Queen attacked Ben at the Galactic Plumbers' Space Station, and Four Arms quickly defeated them.
• Ben restrained Magik and sealed her magic, then learned that the group had come for Charmcaster.
• The Plumbers arrested the four Mutants, and Ben questioned them after their magic was sealed.
• White Queen explained that they wanted Charmcaster and the Phoenix Force to revive Mutants erased by Scarlet Witch's Chaos Magic in their universe, and Ben refused.

Benny confronted the White Queen and Cable over treating Charmcaster as a tool for mutant revival, then sentenced their group to exile on Sakaar. Charmcaster chose to keep her promise to revive the Mutants while rejecting the idea that this was her sole purpose.

• Benny used a device to incapacitate the White Queen, then challenged her and Cable for ignoring the harm mutant awakenings caused.
• Cable insisted that Charmcaster existed to revive the Mutants, and Charmcaster overheard him before entering and telling them to call her Charmcaster.
• Charmcaster promised to revive the Mutants but refused to be treated as their tool, then asked Benny to release the group.
• Benny refused and sentenced the intruders to regain their freedom by winning one hundred matches on Sakaar or completing three Champion Challenges.
• Benny told the White Queen that the Mutants had already revived, and he reminded everyone that Charmcaster had her own thoughts and life.
• Charmcaster became emotional and lunged at Benny, while Felicia objected that the others were not there yet.

Ben and Felicia’s team defeated Charmcaster in a lopsided ranked match, while Star-Lord’s crew found a Galactic Plumbers bounty for Ben Parker and learned that Drax had brought a muscular stranger aboard their ship. The crew realized the stranger had disappeared and questioned who was flying the ship.

• Ben used his duplication ability to turn Charmcaster’s five-on-one challenge into a twenty-five-on-five fight, and Felicia scolded Charmcaster afterward.
• Rocket studied the Tachyon Engine blueprints and proposed converting the engine’s power into weapon power.
• Rocket found a Galactic Plumbers bounty offering a hundred million Rare Metal and a planet for reporting Ben Parker’s location, and Star-Lord decided to pursue it.
• Drax said he had invited a muscular stranger aboard the ship at their last supply stop and claimed the stranger was Ben Parker.
• Rocket realized the stranger had disappeared and asked who was flying the ship.

Rampage Ben captured Star-Lord and the Guardians after defeating them aboard their ship, then ordered Rocket to take him to the Vreedle Brothers. The Vreedles headed for Kante with the Annihilarrgh, while a rocket carrying Jameson’s astronaut son also approached the planet after its flight went wrong.

• Rampage Ben’s Upgrade commandeered the Guardians’ ship, but Star-Lord’s Element Gun forced him back into human form.
• Rampage Ben transformed into Diamondhead, defeated the Guardians, and trapped Drax in crystal.
• Star-Lord and Rocket surrendered, and Rampage Ben shackled the Guardians and made Star-Lord serve as his footrest.
• Rampage Ben gave Rocket the Vreedle Brothers’ coordinates and threatened to kill him if he tried anything.
• The Vreedle Brothers arrived at Kante with the Annihilarrgh as a rocket carrying Jameson’s astronaut son headed there after something went wrong with its flight.

Norman told Ben that Mutants had hijacked the Solaris One rocket to reach a new planet, and Ben assembled a team to respond. Half a month earlier, Peter had rescued John Jameson from the Mutants, and John revealed that someone had paid his father to smear Spider-Man.

• Norman explained that Mutants had hijacked Solaris One to establish a nation on a newly discovered planet, and Ben decided to send Peter, Harry, Flash, Agent Venom, Green Goblin, Connors, and Doctor Otto.
• Peter defeated the Mutants aboard Solaris One and placed discs on them while John Jameson regained control of the rocket.
• John thanked Peter for saving him, and Peter asked him to persuade his father to praise Spider-Man in the media.
• John told Peter that a mysterious person had paid his father large sums to smear him.

Peter and John crash-landed on Contraxia after the planet’s beastmen destroyed their spacecraft, then set out for the city to find a way off the hostile world. They discovered that Contraxia’s rulers oppressed humans in the name of High Evolution, while Peter’s Galactic Plumbers badge had been destroyed in the explosion.

• John convinced Peter that Contraxia might threaten Earth because it closely resembled Earth and could have been artificially created.
• A Mutant attacked Peter with flames, and Peter knocked him down with his Web Shooter, but his Spider-Sense warned him of another danger.
• Ms. Ursula and Mrs. Fulmin called the spacecraft’s occupants enemies, while Tiger King regretted destroying the craft before learning whether they came in peace.
• The beastmen revealed that they ruled Contraxia and oppressed humans, whom they blamed for resisting and forming a Rebel Army.
• Peter transformed into Heatblast to slow their fall and landed safely with John in a forest, but the explosion had destroyed his Galactic Plumbers badge.
• Peter and John decided to reach the city to find a craft, and Peter offered to carry John there.

Peter and John entered a city where intelligent animals lived above humans, who were forced into poverty and treated with hostility. After Peter saved a child from a malfunctioning patrol robot, the child’s mother, Naoko, brought them to her clinic, where they learned their genes matched those of the humans on this strange planet.

• Peter and John disguised themselves as beastfolk and found that animals dominated the city while humans lived in squalid conditions below.
• A patrol robot targeted a child after a car crashed into it, and Peter destroyed the robot to save him.
• Naoko took Peter and John to her clinic with her child, Zayn, after John revealed that they were human.
• Peter disguised his face as a blond, blue-eyed man before Naoko and Zayn questioned whether he was a beastman.
• Peter scanned Naoko and found that her genes were identical to his, leading him to suspect the planet came from a parallel universe.