Chapter Summaries

Karen’s group used Mantis and Tiger King’s access card to enter Wonderdale Castle, hoping to install the regression-agent dispersal device and weaken the beastmen. The High Evolutionary watched them approach, recognized Karen as his granddaughter, and prepared to use her for his experiment; inside the castle, Blumley reunited with his long-lost brother, whose happiness Mantis sensed was hiding malice.

• Karen explained that Ram Knight had captured John, tracked him, and attacked the base, so her group planned to install Connorson’s dispersal device in Wonderdale Castle.
• Mantis joined Karen’s group and led them toward the castle using a secret passage and an access card given to her by Tiger King.
• The High Evolutionary spotted the intruders, recognized Karen as his granddaughter, and recalled modifying her as an infant before her father took her away.
• Karen’s group passed through the castle’s force field and advanced along the secret passage toward its power-supply floor.
• Blumley recognized his long-lost brother Delward, who welcomed him warmly, but Mantis sensed malice beneath his happiness.

Otto refused the High Evolutionary’s offer to leave Contraxia, and the High Evolutionary captured him and his companions. Otto woke in a prison beneath Wonderdale Castle, where Tiger King told him Karen had made a deal with the High Evolutionary and would soon look different.

• Delward betrayed Blumley and sided with the High Evolutionary, prompting Blumley to reject him and raise his gun.
• The High Evolutionary offered Otto a spacecraft and Peter’s Omnitrix in exchange for the Galactic Plumbers leaving Contraxia.
• Otto refused to make peace, and the High Evolutionary used his power to seize him.
• Otto woke beneath Wonderdale Castle and found Blumley, Kit, and Mantis imprisoned, while Karen was missing.
• Tiger King told Otto that Karen had made a deal with the High Evolutionary and might look completely different when they met again.

Otto and his allies escaped the prison and divided their forces to rescue Karen, activate a dispersal device, and confront High Evolutionary. Otto planned to exploit High Evolutionary’s human mind, while Mantis prepared to use her mind-control ability.

• Mantis urged Tiger King to abandon his loyalty to High Evolutionary, and he admitted she was right, though he doubted they could escape the prison.
• Otto’s team arrived with Flash and Venom, who disabled the prison’s energy bars and revealed Venom had devoured ancient Symbiotes to gain immense strength and resist fire and sonic attacks.
• Otto split the group: he, Tiger King, and Mantis went to confront High Evolutionary; Blumley and Kit took the dispersal device to Wonderdale Castle’s tower; and Venom went to rescue Karen.
• Otto gave Blumley and Kit Galactic Plumbers equipment and warned them that the castle guards would oppose them while he and the others held High Evolutionary back.
• Otto told Tiger King that High Evolutionary’s weakness was his mind, and that Mantis could control it.

Ram Knight agreed to cooperate with Rampage Ben to obtain the Annihilarg in exchange for access to Spider-Man’s watch. Meanwhile, Mrs. Fulmin tracked Peter to Doctor Naoko’s clinic and declared that she wanted to die with the man she loved.

• Ram Knight stormed off after his failed mission, while Mrs. Fulmin chose to follow Spider-Man rather than return to High Evolutionary.
• Rampage Ben approached Ram Knight and offered to let him study his watch in exchange for the Annihilarg.
• Ram Knight agreed to help Rampage Ben enter the castle and retrieve the Annihilarg, asking for genes that could help him rival High Evolutionary.
• Peter brought the Galactic Plumbers to Doctor Naoko’s clinic, where Naoko warned that sheltering them endangered her and Saiyan.
• Mrs. Fulmin arrived at the clinic, said she had abandoned High Evolutionary after her mission failed, and told Peter she wanted to die with him.

Blumley and Kit reached the tower to activate the dispersal device, but Kraven confronted them as the battle began. Meanwhile, the High Evolutionary examined Karen and declared that he would transform her into his perfect creation.

• Harry received Flash's message that Tiger King had joined them and Blumley and Kit were activating the device, prompting the group to hurry toward the tower.
• Blumley and Kit fought their way to the tower's peak, where an explosion below warned them that the others were still in danger.
• Kraven appeared and attacked Blumley and Kit, revealing that he worked for whoever paid him and had been hired by the High Evolutionary.
• The High Evolutionary examined Karen and confirmed that her genes could integrate those of any species.
• Karen rejected her grandfather's plans and vowed she would never become his slave, while the High Evolutionary insisted that humans were inferior.

Otto and the others confronted High Evolutionary after he injected Karen with a genetic-altering serum, but his power overwhelmed their first attacks. Peter and Mrs. Fulmin froze High Evolutionary long enough for Mantis to use Mind Control, leaving him caught in a painful memory from his human past.

• High Evolutionary injected Karen with a genetic-altering serum and left the laboratory, where he encountered Otto, Tiger King, and the Plumbers.
• Otto used his Plumbers combat suit and Vibranium mechanical arms to attack High Evolutionary while Tiger King unleashed powerful lightning, but High Evolutionary emerged unharmed and overpowered them.
• High Evolutionary pulled Flash and Venom from a ventilation duct and warned the group that they could not contend with his power.
• Peter and Mrs. Fulmin arrived and froze High Evolutionary with their cold currents.
• Mantis leapt onto High Evolutionary and activated Mind Control, causing him to experience a painful memory from when he was human.

The Rebel Army activated Blumley’s dispersal device, weakening beastmen across New York and restoring Green Goblin and Kit to human form. As the rain also began affecting Ram Knight, he injected himself with serum to transform before his powers faded further.

• Mantis briefly held the High Evolutionary under psychic control while John rescued Karen from the laboratory.
• Green Goblin and Vulture defeated Kraven, and Vulture dropped him from several thousand meters in the air.
• Blumley explained that the dispersal device would weaken ordinary beastmen but probably not the High Evolutionary, leaving Spider-Man and the Galactic Plumbers to confront him.
• Blumley activated the device, sending serum-laced rain across New York and causing beastmen to weaken and regress.
• Green Goblin returned to human form, and Blumley recognized him as a former Rebel Army companion; Kit also regained his original body.
• Ram Knight felt his powers and intellect fading in the rain, so he injected himself with serum to transform.

Rocket guided Mantis to trap the High Evolutionary in an illusion while a serum caused beastmen to regress. Tiger King killed the High Evolutionary, but the Ram Knight arrived as Peter proposed a new peace between humans and beastmen.

• Rocket instructed Mantis to make the High Evolutionary believe his ambitions had all come true, and the illusion took hold.
• The serum weakened the beastmen and shrank Rocket, while Tiger King’s intelligence regressed and his violent instincts grew stronger.
• Karen urged the others to kill the High Evolutionary before he escaped the illusion, and Tiger King beheaded him.
• Peter proposed that Karen and Tiger King represent humans and beastmen in building a peaceful planet.
• The Ram Knight arrived and crushed the High Evolutionary’s head, while Tiger King greeted him with a stream of insults.

Peter and his allies fought Ram Knight, whose many powerful alien abilities overwhelmed them and scattered them across the city. While hiding from Ram Knight’s robot search, Peter figured Rampage Ben had empowered him and selected Way Big as a possible counter.

• Ram Knight used chaotic gravity to pin down most of the group, while Peter, Flash, Connors, and Tiger King resisted and Harry led the others away.
• Ram Knight created duplicates and unleashed a devastating sonic shockwave that hurled Peter and his allies through the castle.
• Ram Knight’s duplicates struck the survivors out of the castle, and Peter wondered how Ram Knight had gained so many powerful abilities.
• Peter deduced that Rampage Ben had helped Ram Knight, then hid as Ram Knight deployed thousands of Wundergar Robots to search the city.
• Peter searched his watch for an ability Rampage Ben might have withheld and chose Way Big.

Peter chose to transform into Way Big to fight Ram Knight without regard for the danger to the city’s beastmen. Meanwhile, Otto and Rampage Ben confronted each other in Wonderdale Castle, where Ben’s malfunctioning Omnitrix turned him into Spider Monkey as Otto attacked.

• Peter recognized Way Big in the Omnitrix and transformed, hoping the beastmen could be evacuated before his fight with Ram Knight.
• Tiger King hid from Ram Knight’s robots, while Connors and Flash discussed hacking the robots to help evacuate the city’s animals.
• Otto returned to Wonderdale Castle and met Rampage Ben, who had entered to search for the Annihilarg.
• Rampage Ben rejected Otto’s proposed truce, and Otto attacked him with his mechanical arms.
• Rampage Ben took a soldier’s spear-gun and used it against Otto, but Otto’s arms blocked the shot and destroyed the weapon.
• With no other choice, Rampage Ben used his malfunctioning Omnitrix and transformed into Spider Monkey as Otto closed off his escape routes.

Peter and the others herded the devolved beasts to safety while Karen learned that Peter had become Way Big. Rampage Ben defeated Otto, took his Omnitrix receiver, and found the Annihilarg so he could leave.

• Peter noticed that Ram Knight's robots were pretending not to see him, unaware that Otto had changed their code.
• Naoko told the Rebel Army to drive the devolved beasts away rather than attack them, and Harry warned the people to hide because Ram Knight was searching for Spider-Man and the others.
• Harry, Tiger King, Star-Lord, Venom, Blumley, and the others herded the beasts toward the sewers while Mantis calmed them; Blumley and Tiger King reconciled.
• Karen wondered if she could fight Ram Knight, but Harry pointed out Peter as an orange giant standing among the buildings.
• Rampage Ben outmaneuvered Otto and wrapped him in Silk, then took Otto's Omnitrix receiver and found the Annihilarg.

Rampage Ben escaped the Ben 10 Universe with the Annihilarg while Peter defeated Ram Knight and banished him to the Null Void. On Contraxia, Tiger King and Karen proposed separate nations for humans and beastmen, with the Galactic Plumbers mediating between them.

• Rampage Ben took the Annihilarg and escaped the universe, while Peter captured Ram Knight as Way Big and knocked him unconscious.
• Peter banished Ram Knight to the Null Void Realm, and Otto revealed that Rampage Ben had also taken Peter's Omnitrix and fled.
• Otto reported Rampage Ben's escape to Galactic Plumbers Headquarters, but Peter forgot that Rampage Ben had taken the Annihilarg.
• Tiger King and Karen planned to establish separate human and beastman nations and asked the Galactic Plumbers to mediate between them.
• Peter agreed to the Plumbers' role and proposed that the Rebel Army and Wandagore Knights join the Galactic Plumbers.

Ben and Norman discussed the threat posed by Maltruant and the alternate Ben Tennysons, then Ben prepared teams to confront them and assist Thor and Loki. At the Time Administration Bureau, Maltruant’s allies turned on He Who Remains Kang, and Vilgax stabbed him through the chest.

• Ben and Norman discussed sending John Jameson to garrison Contraxia before turning their attention to Rampage Ben and the growing number of alternate Bens.
• Ben suspected Maltruant was gathering alternate Ben Tennysons and might have obtained the Annihilarg, a weapon capable of destroying universes and timelines.
• Ben decided to take the initiative against Maltruant and organized two teams, one to confront him and another to support Thor and Loki.
• Rampage Ben returned to the Time Administration Bureau and reported that his mission had failed, while keeping quiet about the Annihilarg because He Who Remains Kang was present.
• He Who Remains Kang confronted Maltruant over his repeated failures, and Vilgax stabbed Kang through the chest.

Ben interrupted Maltruant and his allies as they prepared to use the Annihilarg to destroy the multiverses and create a new world. After Ben blocked Rampage Ben's attack, Maltruant froze the area, but Ben's allies arrived and shattered his temporal domain.

• Vilgax stabbed He Who Remains Kang, and Maltruant said Kang was no longer important to the plan.
• Rampage Ben presented the Annihilarg, and Maltruant explained that he would use the Time Administration Bureau's temporal energy to complete the Origin Bomb.
• Ben arrived through a spacetime portal, snatched the Annihilarg, and blocked Rampage Ben's Four Arms attack with his enhanced strength.
• Maltruant froze the surrounding area while Vilgax charged at Ben to reclaim the Annihilarg.
• Ben's allies arrived, Looma knocked Vilgax back with her hammer, and the group's temporal domain shattered Maltruant's field.

Ben Parker’s forces attacked Maltruant and the Ben Tennyson variants at the Time Administration Bureau, while the battle spread through the tower and the future city. As reinforcements joined the fight, Negative Ben transformed into X Cthulhu, revealing a new threat to Ben.

• Maltruant ordered the Bens to seize the Annihilarg, and Quicksilver stopped Albedo from reaching it while Steve, Tony, Bill, and Felicia fought Void Illusion’s clones.
• Void Illusion struck Peter with a ray that aged Gravattack into dust, forcing Peter out of his transformation and leaving him to evade Void Illusion’s attack.
• Looma blasted Rampage Ben out of the tower and pursued him into the city, where they fought in midair.
• Ben Parker faced Maltruant, Vilgax, Ghostfreak Ben, and Negative Ben, then received reinforcements from Tian Xiaowen, Zombie Ben, and Animo.
• Tian Xiaowen drove Vilgax back, Zombie Ben attacked Ghostfreak Ben, and Maltruant urged Negative Ben to act before their plan failed.
• Negative Ben transformed into X Cthulhu, summoning a dark God Race warrior to face Ben.

Ben and Negative Ben transformed into Alien X and X Cthulhu, but their consciousnesses stalled over who should control them. While the two Celestialsapiens stood motionless, Maltruant seized the Annihilarg, and Albedo took it after Quicksilver briefly recovered it.

• Ben, Oyana, and Enara argued over whether to attack Negative Ben or try to persuade him, while Negative Ben and the two consciousnesses inside X Cthulhu refused to take action.
• Maltruant opened his time field and took the Annihilarg from the motionless Alien X.
• Steve called for the others to stop Maltruant, but Void Illusion clones and a Heatblast-form Ben variant blocked the heroes.
• Quicksilver snatched the Annihilarg, but Vilgax knocked it away with his sword, and Albedo pinned Quicksilver with Ultimate Gravattack.
• Peter tried to intercept the Annihilarg as Void Illusion killed another Alien Hero, but Albedo ultimately obtained the bomb.

Ben’s team struggled against the Time Administration Bureau’s countless clones while Maltruant took the Annihilarg toward the Bureau’s core. Loki and his variants arrived to reinforce the battle, and Tony and Peter began summoning more allies.

• Alien X fought X Cthulhu, but neither could gain an advantage because both Celestialsapiens acted without needing a motion.
• Maltruant took the Annihilarg from Albedo and headed deeper into the Time Administration Bureau to alter it with the Power of Time.
• Void Illusions overwhelmed Steve and held back Tony and the others, leaving them unable to stop Maltruant.
• Loki and a group of Lokis arrived through a rift and joined the fight against the clones.
• Tony asked Peter to contact the Spider Alliance, then reached Norman and told him to mobilize the Galactic Plumbers and Plumbers across the universe.

Plumbers and multiversal allies overwhelmed the Time Administration Bureau, but Maltruant seized the Annihilarg and escaped through a temporal domain. Loki followed him to the place where timelines converged, where Contradiction explained Maltruant’s plan and urged Loki to stop him.

• Plumbers, Nova Corps, Asgardians, Spider-Men, and other allies flooded the Time Administration Bureau to fight the clones.
• The Bureau’s employees mistook the reinforcements for Time Criminals and began pruning people, adding to the chaos.
• Peter spotted Maltruant with the Annihilarg, but Albedo pinned him down before he could act.
• Maltruant used his temporal power to slow everyone around him and escaped with the Annihilarg.
• Loki secretly followed Maltruant to the convergence of timelines, where Contradiction explained that Maltruant planned to destroy every universe and create new ones under his rule.

Loki learned that becoming the God of Stories would let him control the multiverse but leave him eternally alone, then pushed through visions of countless alternate lives to reach the throne. He took his place as the timelines converged around him, bearing the multiverse and its fates.

• Contradiction told Loki to sit on the throne and warned that becoming the God of Stories would cost him his life in the real world and leave him lonely.
• Loki entered the timelines and resisted visions of alternate lives, while the threads slowed him and Maltruant.
• Maltruant struck Loki and hurried toward the throne, believing Loki had been left behind.
• Loki appeared at the throne, revealing that the kneeling figure Maltruant had hit was an illusion.
• The timelines surged toward Loki, who sat on the throne and supported the multiverse as its fates intertwined around him.

Loki took the throne and erased most of the enemies at the Time Administration Bureau, but Maltruant escaped with the Annihilarg. As X Cthulhu continued fighting Ben, Contradiction asked Loki to travel back in time and make a small change to help fight the Beyonders.

• Contradiction watched Loki take the throne and hoped Thor and Doom could hold out against the Beyonders.
• A Time Beast emerged from a void and began devouring time, forcing Loki to deal with it while Maltruant escaped with the Annihilarg.
• Loki traced the Time Beast to beyond the megaverse, stripped it of its power, and erased it.
• Loki’s power aged and erased the Void Illusion clones and other enemies across the Time Variance Authority, while his restored memories stopped the Plumbers from fighting.
• Rampage Ben’s battle with Looma continued, while X Cthulhu resisted Loki’s interference and fought Ben.
• Contradiction told Loki that the Beyonders’ linear time gave him an opportunity and asked him to return to a certain point in time to make a small change.