Chapter Summaries

Ben and Peter fought Connors, using webbing to restrain him so Peter could inject the antidote, but Connors broke free and knocked Peter unconscious. Ben transformed with the Omnitrix into Four Arms to face him.

• Ben and Peter attacked Connors together, but he smashed through the floors and gained room to fight.
• Ben and Peter kept their distance and covered Connors in webbing to slow and immobilize him.
• Peter approached Connors with the antidote, intending to inject it into his eyelid.
• Connors burst out of the webbing and knocked Peter unconscious before threatening Ben.
• Ben activated the Omnitrix and transformed into Four Arms.

Ben transformed into Four Arms and defeated Connors in a brutal fight. Connors warned that Doctor Animo planned to use the Canary Device and Gene Variator to make everyone in New York evolve, and Ben continued attacking him in fury.

• Ben transformed into Four Arms and challenged Connors, rejecting Connors's plan to evolve humanity.
• Ben and Connors fought, and Ben stopped Connors's charge before smashing him into the ground.
• Ben grabbed Connors and demanded to know where Doctor Animo was.
• Connors revealed that Doctor Animo planned to use the Canary Device and Gene Variator to make everyone in New York evolve.
• Furious at the threat to his family, Ben hurled Connors into the air and unleashed a rapid barrage of punches.

Ben defeated Dinosaur Connors and escaped the collapsing school with Peter, then learned Doctor Animo had begun his plan to turn New York into a prehistoric world. The chapter ended with Animo activating the Canary Device from the tallest building in New York.

• Ben battered Connors with his four arms, then struck him hard enough to send him crashing through the school walls and bring down the Teaching Building.
• George Stacy arrived with police officers as the Teaching Building collapsed, while Ben carried Peter, the serum, and the unconscious Connors through the sewers.
• Ben called Uncle Ben and Felicia to tell them he and Peter were safe, then worried that Animo had already started acting and hoped the Canary Device could be countered.
• Peter woke, recognized the symbol on Ben's arm, and learned that Ben had transformed into Four Arms.
• Connors regained consciousness, and Ben told him that Animo intended to return the world to the Prehistoric Era rather than help humanity evolve.
• Doctor Animo aimed the Canary Device at the sky and declared that New York would return to the Jurassic.

Doctor Animo attacked Stark Tower with giant mutant creatures while Ben and Peter rescued Connors and prepared to stop him. With the Little Broken Watch cooling down, Ben decided to crack it open with Peter’s help before confronting Animo.

• Doctor Animo stood on Stark Tower and revealed a giant mutant bird and an enormous bullfrog monster to Tony Stark.
• Natasha alerted Nick Fury, who ordered her to keep Animo occupied until backup arrived.
• Ben gave Connors the serum antidote, and Connors admitted that his arrogance had led him to help Animo.
• Ben learned that Connors knew how to operate Animo’s Variable Device and prepared more antidote.
• Ben enlisted Peter to help crack the Little Broken Watch, then pressed its core to begin.

Ben and Peter examined the Little Broken Watch while Tony and S.H.I.E.L.D. fought Doctor Animo’s mutated monsters in New York. Steve Rogers joined the battle at Stark Tower but was struck by the giant bullfrog and disappeared into a crack in the building.

• Ben transformed into Grey Matter and guided Peter as he removed the Little Broken Watch’s wireless receiver, exposing its core.
• Tony battled the monster bird while ordering Jarvis to evacuate Stark Tower and learning that a giant bullfrog was inside.
• Nick Fury sent Hawkeye, Natasha, Steve Rogers, and a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to handle the bullfrog and evacuate the tower.
• Natasha ran out of ammunition while the bullfrog chased her into a dead end, and Steve arrived by leaping from the helicopter without a parachute.
• Steve struck the bullfrog’s eye with his shield and challenged it, but its tongue smashed through the tower and knocked him into a crack in the building.

The bullfrog monster was killed with an explosive arrow, but Animo transformed into a prehistoric mutant and nearly killed Steve Rogers. As Fury prepared to order an attack on Manhattan, a fiery figure arrived and crashed Monster Bird into Stark Tower.

• Natasha reported that she was stuck in a ventilation duct, while Steve lured the bullfrog monster away from the agents.
• Hawkeye shot an explosive arrow into the bullfrog monster's throat and killed it from the inside.
• Animo injected himself with serum, transformed using prehistoric animal genes, and smashed Steve through Stark Tower.
• Fury prepared to begin firepower coverage of Manhattan after Steve stopped responding.
• A burning figure identified as Ben struck Monster Bird and drove it into Stark Tower.

Ben transformed into Heatblast and confronted Doctor Animo in Stark Tower, using his fire to injure Animo despite the villain’s rapid regeneration. Ben prepared to raise the flames’ temperature and continue the fight with a Flame Punch.

• Ben revealed himself to Doctor Animo as the boy they had encountered at Osborn Tower and explained that his watch’s Life Lock Mode removed Heatblast’s time limit.
• Doctor Animo recognized Ben and declared that he would use Ben’s genes to create more powerful Mutant Creatures.
• Ben fired an explosive blast of flame at Animo, scorching his arm and knocking him across the lobby.
• Animo regenerated his injured arm within seconds and grew more determined to obtain Ben’s genes.
• Ben condensed his orange-yellow flames into a blood-red blaze as he prepared to attack Animo with a Flame Punch.

Ben used Heatblast’s flames and strength to fight Animo inside Stark Tower while Tony rescued Steve. He carried Animo into the stratosphere and blasted him downward, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ben’s flames engulfed Animo, who escaped into the air by regenerating his wings and body.
• Tony entered Stark Tower, and Ben sent Steve outside on a platform before Tony carried him to Coulson.
• Ben identified himself as a Galactic Plumbers Security Officer and told Tony that Steve would die if he stayed inside.
• Animo attacked Ben again, but Ben struck him in midair and forced a fireball into his mouth.
• Ben carried Animo through the top of Stark Tower and into the stratosphere, then blasted his abdomen with a high-temperature laser.

Ben pursued Animo into the lake, transformed into Ripjaws, and captured him after injecting him with the Lizard Serum antidote. Animo revealed that he had merged his Gene Variator with the Canary Device to mutate New York, but Connors returned with the machine before he could succeed.

• Ben blasted Animo from the sky, pierced his wings, and Animo crashed into the lake.
• Ben dove underwater, transformed into Ripjaws, caught Animo, and injected him with the Lizard Serum antidote.
• Ben dragged Animo to a sewer outlet and canceled his transformation, while the Little Broken Watch entered Calibration Mode and changed its appearance.
• Animo revealed that his Gene Variator was merged with the Canary Device and would fire a Mutation Ray across New York.
• Ben told Animo that Connors had been sent to stop the machine, and Dinosaur Connors returned carrying it.

Ben reversed Animo’s Variable Device to restore Connors, recruited him to work for a new company, and left with Animo. At Stark Industries, Tony and Nick Fury argued over the monsters and Fury’s plan for the Avengers.

• Connors returned with Animo’s Variable Device and told Ben that Iron Man and others were searching the area.
• Ben refused to hand Animo over to S.H.I.E.L.D., reversed the device’s program, and restored Connors to human form.
• Connors agreed to work for Ben and offered him his inventions, while Ben promised to protect Connors’s family and arrange a new identity.
• Ben destroyed the Canary Device, took the Gene Variator, and left with Animo after checking that Felicia and Mary Jane were safe.
• Tony found no trace of the monsters at the Stark Industries ruins, and Fury criticized him before proposing a dedicated team.
• Tony mocked Fury’s Avengers plan, and Fury said Tony might not qualify to join.

Tony and Fury discussed the Galactic Plumbers and prepared for the possibility that they might become enemies, while Benny returned home after the attack on the school. Mary Jane visited Benny to check on him, and he invited her into his room.

• Tony told Fury that Heatblast had called himself a Security Officer of the Galactic Plumbers, while Fury said Curt Connors was missing and Osborn Corporation was in trouble.
• Fury urged Tony to share intelligence and prepare for a possible conflict with the Galactic Plumbers, and Tony privately decided to plan how to fight Heatblast.
• Benny returned to Queens with the Omnitrix left behind by Animo and reassured Uncle Ben and Aunt May that he and Peter were safe after Spider-Man rescued them.
• Peter visited Benny to ask about the attack, learned that Connors had changed back, and was delighted to hear Connors planned to give him new camera equipment.
• Mary Jane came to check that Benny was unharmed, and Benny invited her to sit in his room.

Benny and Felicia bought Osborn Corporation laboratory equipment at a steep discount, and Benny brought a supercomputer to his laboratory to create an artificial intelligence. The program responded to Benny as Eunice.

• Felicia helped Benny negotiate with Osborn shareholder Mendel Stromm to buy laboratory equipment cheaply.
• Benny told Felicia he was working with Harry Osborn and declined her offer to seek funding from her mother.
• Felicia asked Benny to thank her by buying ice cream, and they shared some before he took her home.
• Benny went to his laboratory, transformed into Grey Matter, and modified Jarvis's underlying code on a supercomputer.
• The program responded with a clear female voice, and Benny greeted it as Eunice.

Benny established Primus Technology in Queens, repaired its laboratory equipment, and built Peter a new Spider Suit with gliding wings. He also helped spread rumors that the Hardy Foundation would acquire Osborn Corporation, leaving Norman pleased and Mrs. Hardy worried about Felicia’s loyalty.

• Benny had Eunice create files on Unitrix and the Ultimatrix as he considered making his own trix someday.
• Benny used Grey Matter and Upgrade to repair Osborn Corporation’s damaged equipment and set up Primus Technology in Queens, with dedicated spaces for Connors and Peter.
• Benny designed Peter a new Spider Suit with added functions and gliding wings, while Peter gained popularity in Queens and earned money selling Spider-Man photos to the Daily Bugle.
• Benny decided to buy and modify an RV for the family and went to Osborn Manor to help Norman acquire a company.
• Norman praised Benny for involving Felicia and the Hardy Foundation in buying Osborn equipment, which fueled rumors that the foundation would acquire Osborn Corporation and drove its stock toward its limit down.
• Mrs. Hardy confronted Felicia about the rumors, and Felicia avoided answering as her mother worried she would give the Hardy Foundation to an outsider.

Benny planned to expand Primus Technology through communication devices and Connors's Lizard Serum while eyeing Hammer Industries for a future acquisition. At Primus, Benny and Connors began improving the serum, but they questioned whether genetic compatibility would limit who could use it.

• Norman offered Benny a chance to buy Osborn Corporation stock, and Benny accepted after Norman explained that he trusted him.
• Benny told Harry that Primus would start with communication devices and later focus on Connors's Lizard Serum, while he considered taking over Hammer Industries.
• Justin Hammer plotted to use the destruction of Stark Tower and the monster fight to pressure Tony Stark into revealing Iron Man armor technology.
• Benny welcomed Connors to Primus and transformed into Grey Matter to help him improve the Lizard Serum.
• Benny and Connors discussed genetic compatibility as a reason Peter inherited spider powers without becoming a monster, and Benny reminded Connors that their serum was meant to treat disabilities, not grant Superpowers.

Ben and Connors planned to redesign the Lizard Serum as a treatment and protect its formula by keeping a key ingredient secret. Ben then introduced Connors to Norman and Harry Osborn, claiming the serum could cure the Osborn family’s hereditary illness, and left them hopeful about a cure.

• Ben rejected diluting the Lizard Serum and proposed redesigning it as a therapeutic drug that could remove Superpowers without granting extraordinary abilities.
• Ben and Connors agreed to keep an indispensable serum ingredient secret, then began developing a small laboratory ecosystem and researching lizard stem cells.
• Ben told Connors that Norman Osborn was coming and instructed him to say the serum had been successfully developed without revealing more.
• Ben introduced Norman and Harry to Connors and blamed Norman’s executives for pushing him toward unfinished serum trials.
• Norman revealed the Osborn family’s hereditary illness to Harry, and Ben assured them that the serum could cure it.

Ben used the Omnitrix to cure Norman and Harry Osborn, then agreed to sell the treatment through a collaboration between Primus and Osborn. Norman regained control of Osborn and gave Ben a 20% stake, while Mendel Stromm plotted against the company and Peter faced trouble in Hell’s Kitchen.

• Norman chose to undergo Ben’s gene repair treatment first, and Ben used Earth human genes to cure him before treating Harry.
• Norman recovered his strength, then proposed using Osborn’s name to market the serum and shield Primus from hostile companies.
• Ben agreed with Norman’s plan, and Norman left with Harry to reclaim Osborn and retaliate against those who had betrayed him.
• Norman appeared at a press conference the next day, and Harry later delivered Ben a certificate transferring him 20% of Osborn Corporation’s shares.
• Ben selected a factory and had Eunice assess data and draft a sales plan, while Mendel Stromm realized Norman had been buying Osborn shares and dismissed his chances of recovery.
• Peter, unaware of Ben’s recent events, encountered trouble in Hell’s Kitchen.

Peter entered Hell's Kitchen to investigate a human trafficking deal and encountered Matt, who mistook him for a criminal. After introducing himself as Spider-Man, Peter ignored Matt’s warning and swung toward the armed gang members.

• Peter found people being traded in an underground deal in Manhattan and decided to help them.
• Matt attacked Peter after hearing him nearby, but Peter dodged his blows and fired Silk at him.
• Matt mistook Peter for a young criminal and warned him to leave Hell’s Kitchen.
• Peter told Matt he was Spider-Man, but Matt dismissed him as a kid imitating a hero.
• Peter ignored Matt’s warning and swung toward the armed gang members.

Ben completed a healing serum with Connors and arranged its launch with Norman, while planning to take a vacation and seek Asgardian genes. His plans were interrupted when an injured Peter brought an unconscious Matt into his room.

• Ben and Connors finished the serum, and Ben agreed with Norman to release its powerful basic version first and other versions later.
• Ben warned Norman that Osborn Corporation's former directors might realize they had sold their shares at a loss, but Norman left with the serum unconcerned.
• Connors received a new identity, Curtis Shallu, as he hoped to reunite with his wife and child.
• Ben considered traveling to Mexico to pursue Asgardian genes, then planned to tell Uncle Ben and Aunt May about his trip.
• Peter arrived injured, dragged an unconscious Matt into his room, and stood there looking exhausted and helpless.

Ben treated Matt with an improved healing serum after Peter brought him home, then warned Peter not to expose his identity or put Ben and Aunt May at risk. Ben and Peter set out in new Spider Suits to investigate the terrifying figure who had attacked them, while Muse of Art continued his bloody killings in Hell's Kitchen.

• Ben injected Matt with the improved serum, then knocked him unconscious again to keep him from learning Peter's identity and home address.
• Peter explained that he and Daredevil had been attacked in Hell's Kitchen by a terrifying figure whose presence had disabled both Spider-Sense and Daredevil's senses.
• Ben gave Peter a new Spider Suit, changed into his own suit, and left with him to investigate the attacker.
• Muse of Art killed a Black police officer, collected his blood, and complained that he needed more for his artistic creation.

Ben transformed into Wildmutt to track the monster in Hell's Kitchen, but his heightened senses could not detect the killer Muse. After Muse slipped away, Ben realized the enemy could suppress his senses, just as Spider-Man and Daredevil arrived and Matt mistook him for a threat.

• Ben transformed into Wildmutt and began searching Hell's Kitchen while Peter stayed behind with the unconscious Matt.
• Ben followed the scent of blood to a house and found a wall painted with victims' blood and a recently dead body.
• Muse, an Inhuman who could devour other senses, watched Ben unnoticed and quietly left when he decided the beast was not his art.
• Ben noticed his senses recover after Muse left and realized he had encountered an enemy who could not be sensed.
• Spider-Man and Daredevil arrived, and Matt mistook Ben for an enemy until Ben slapped him to the ground.