Chapter Summaries

After Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne organized relief for the Shadow Incident, Robet learned that nine Hell Demon King Human Vessels had appeared on Earth. He planned to have his allies fight them for training, while Constantine hoped to use them to pay off his debts.

• Pepper warned Tony Stark that compensating victims would cost tens of billions and anger Stark Industries' board, but Tony quickly silenced the board's objections.
• Souls from the Shadow Incident drew the attention of Hell Demon Kings after Mephisto went into seclusion, and Constantine discovered nine of their Human Vessels on Earth.
• Constantine contacted Robet and urged him to eliminate the Human Vessels, hoping to claim the demons and settle his debts.
• Robet decided to let Pietro, Kara, Lana, Tony Stark, and their allies fight the Human Vessels for training, while excluding the injured Peter Parker.
• Constantine asked Robet how many of the Hell Demon Kings he would get, realizing Robet would not let him claim all nine.

Tony Stark tracked the nine Hell Demon Kings to a supernatural tavern and confronted the One-Eyed Demon King, who mistook him for an agent of a hidden mastermind. Their battle began with the Demon King wounded by Tony’s armor, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Tony Stark sent Jarvis to locate the nine Hell Demon Kings and flew to their gathering place in a group of armors.
• Tony Stark tried to clear the supernatural patrons from the tavern, but they mocked him, so he used an old armor to destroy the tavern in an explosion.
• The bartender, formerly the Shadow Hunter, identified the One-Eyed Demon King and escaped through a Portal before the Demon King could strike him.
• The One-Eyed Demon King survived the blast and accused Tony Stark of serving a mastermind, then attacked him.
• Tony Stark used Jarvis’s calculations to pierce the One-Eyed Demon King’s chest with a laser sword, then drove him back with energy from the armor’s neck and spinning blades.

Tony Stark's suits overwhelmed the One-Eyed Demon King while Robet and Constantine prepared to capture another Hell Demon King. Their plans changed when Hellboy arrived, revealing that a demon raised on Earth had grown to Demon King strength.

• The One-Eyed Demon King attacked Tony Stark with an energy shockwave, but Tony's shield blocked it and the attack's mind-altering power had no effect on him.
• Jarvis exploited the One-Eyed Demon King's hesitation and coordinated several suits of armor in a chain attack, leaving the Demon King unable to find a chance to escape.
• Robet brought Constantine to a tavern and agreed to capture a third Hell Demon King for him, after refusing Constantine's attempt to call him his brother.
• Robet and Constantine sensed another Hell Demon King approaching, and Constantine recognized him as Hellboy.
• Constantine explained that Hellboy had been summoned to Earth as a child, raised by the military, and had grown from Super Soldier strength to Demon King strength by fighting Hell Demons.
• Robet wondered whether the military could reproduce Hellboy's development by raising other demons on Earth and build an army of them.

Hellboy confronted Zeldar, a top-tier Demon King investigating Earth for a Hell Lord, and attacked after mistaking his plans for an imminent threat. Robet and Constantine watched from nearby as Hellboy trapped Zeldar with a space-distorting punch, and Zeldar prepared to fight back.

• Robet chose to watch Hellboy face Zeldar, while Constantine hoped to claim the Demon King's spoils if Hellboy lost.
• Zeldar sensed Hellboy's powerful Hell Lord bloodline and assumed he had come to discuss cooperation.
• Hellboy cleared the tavern of bystanders, then questioned Zeldar about his reason for coming to Earth.
• Zeldar mentioned the Hell Lord behind him and Lord Mephisto, prompting Hellboy to attack and miss with his first punch.
• Hellboy attacked again with a punch that distorted the space around Zeldar, who decided to stop dodging and fight.

Hellboy fought Zeldar, but the Demon King vanished before their battle could reach its climax. Hellboy then confronted Constantine and Robet, while Robet left to check the other battlefields.

• Zeldar broke free and smashed Hellboy backward, but Hellboy's injured right hand quickly regenerated.
• Hellboy attacked Zeldar with a modified revolver loaded with energy and silver Holy Light, enraging the Demon King.
• As Zeldar's power surged and he disappeared, Robet recognized that he had simply run away.
• Constantine realized Zeldar had escaped and argued with Hellboy over who would handle the Demon King.
• Hellboy warned Robet that Constantine had betrayed a companion before, but Robet left to visit the other battlefields.

Hellboy and Constantine separately pursued Zeldar after Robet urged them to find the Hell Demon King, while Kara defeated another top-tier Demon King by punching him into space before he could self-destruct on Earth. Robet and Ancient One discussed containing future battles, and Ancient One offered to teach Robet the Mirror Dimension.

• Hellboy refused to work with Constantine and went after Zeldar, while Constantine secretly planned to steal Hellboy's spoils and followed him instead of using Tracking Magic.
• Zeldar withdrew to recover and planned to summon his Hell Lord boss to Earth, then evaded Hellboy and left Constantine to trail after him.
• Kara overwhelmed a top-tier Hell Demon King in battle, despite being vulnerable to his soul attacks.
• When the Demon King began to self-destruct, Kara repeatedly punched him into the sky and sent him beyond Earth's range, where he exploded harmlessly in space.
• Robet watched Kara's victory and compared it to blasting an enemy into the sun; Ancient One warned him against risking the sun and offered to teach him the Mirror Dimension.

Robet and Kara checked the ongoing battles against the Hell Demon Kings and helped Steve, Bucky Barnes, and Morbius finish off the Four-Armed Demon King. Robet suspected Zeldar was acting on behalf of a Hell Lord seeking a way to enter Earth, while the remaining battles continued.

• Robet told Kara that most of the Demon Kings were still alive, and they flew to check the other battlefields.
• Steve, Bucky Barnes, and Morbius wore down the Four-Armed Demon King but struggled to kill him as their strength declined.
• The Four-Armed Demon King tried to escape, but Robet intercepted him and left him stunned.
• Morbius seized the opening and destroyed the Four-Armed Demon King's body and soul by attacking and controlling his blood.
• Robet told Steve that several battles remained and said the other Demon Kings might have come to exploit the deaths from the Shadow Incident.
• Robet recalled Zeldar's conversation with Hellboy and suspected a Hell Lord planned to use a contract and rule to bring his power to Earth.

Robet reassured Steve that Hell Demon Kings faced barriers to reaching Earth, then went with Kara to survey the remaining battles. Johnny Storm, Susan Storm, and Barry Allen kept fighting a Giant Demon King for days without defeating it, while Robet refused to interfere; they watched the battle continue into 2011 as the Avengers gathered.

• Steve worried that more Hell Demon Kings might appear, and Robet explained that powerful demons had to pay a price to invade Earth and promised to watch for a possible Hell Lord.
• Robet and Kara left Steve, Bucky Barnes, and their companion to recover, then learned that Lana and Clark had defeated their opponent.
• Robet sensed that Tony's and Pietro's battles were nearing their ends, but Johnny Storm's team was still struggling against a Giant Demon King.
• Johnny's Explosive Flames barely harmed the Giant Demon King, while Susan supported the team and Barry distracted the monster; Robet and Kara watched without stepping in.
• Tony defeated his opponent and Pietro and Lorna won their battle, but Johnny's team continued fighting as Robet, Kara, and other Avengers watched through New Year's and into 2011.

Johnny Storm, Susan Storm, and Barry Allen fought the Giant Demon King while Robet and the Avengers watched, with Robet keeping the demon trapped. After the Giant Demon King survived Johnny's strongest flames and nearly killed him, Barry rescued Johnny and the trio vanished under Susan's invisibility to set up one final attack.

• The Giant Demon King tried to flee but crashed into Robet's Telekinetic Barrier and was badly injured.
• Johnny Storm charged an Explosive Flames attack while Susan Storm restrained the Giant Demon King, but the demon began breaking free and injured Susan through the strain.
• Barry Allen used a speed-charged punch to break the Giant Demon King's leg, creating an opening for Johnny to land his Explosive Flames attack.
• The Giant Demon King survived the flames and lunged at Johnny, but Barry Allen rescued him at the last moment.
• Susan Storm made herself, Johnny Storm, and Barry Allen invisible as they prepared their final coordinated attack, while the Giant Demon King unleashed a wind pressure to find them.

Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, and Barry Allen baited the Giant Demon King into opening his mouth, then killed him with compressed Explosive Flames trapped by Robet’s Telekinetic Barrier. Robet counted their mission as incomplete because his intervention helped secure the kill, but spared them serious punishment and assigned them a meal treat.

• The Giant Demon King’s wind-pressure attack forced Susan Storm out of invisibility, and he charged at her while Tony Stark and the others tried to intervene.
• Johnny Storm and Barry Allen rescued Susan Storm, and Johnny threw a compressed spark of Explosive Flames into the Giant Demon King’s mouth as Robet contained the blast with his Telekinetic Barrier.
• The trapped explosion repeatedly damaged the Giant Demon King from within until he died, leaving only a battered remnant of his body.
• Tony Stark explained that Robet’s barrier had supplied the extra damage needed to kill the Giant Demon King, and Robet agreed that his intervention meant the trio had not fully completed their mission.
• Robet healed Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, and Barry Allen, excused them from serious punishment, and told them to treat everyone to a meal.

Tony Stark arranged a feast for the Avengers and asked Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, and Barry Allen to let him study their powers for his mech designs. Meanwhile, Peter Parker investigated his father Richard Parker’s past with Harry Osborn and recovered a damaged videotape that revealed Richard had secretly pursued his own experiment.

• Tony Stark offered to study Susan Storm’s invisibility and energy barriers, Johnny Storm’s flames, and Barry Allen’s speed in exchange for treating them to dinner.
• At a later Avengers meal, Johnny Storm asked why Peter Parker had missed the gathering, and Tony Stark said Peter was dealing with a private matter related to his background.
• After recovering in the Nutrient Healing Pod, Peter Parker decided to confront Richard Parker and seek the truth about the mutated spider and his father’s motives.
• Peter Parker told Harry Osborn what he knew about Richard Parker, easing the guilt and tension between them.
• With Harry Osborn’s help, Peter Parker searched Osborn Tower and found a damaged videotape that Jarvis partially restored.
• The recovered footage showed that Richard Parker had shifted away from Norman Osborn’s research and planned to use the Osborn Group to hatch his own egg.

Peter Parker and Harry Osborn watched damaged footage revealing that Richard Parker had secretly pursued spider research, gained Norman Osborn’s trust, and then fled with his wife and their results. After Peter and Harry prepared equipment together, they confronted Richard at the abandoned subway station, where he had begun studying supernatural power.

• Jarvis’s footage showed Richard Parker secretly conducting spider experiments and presenting results that improved Norman Osborn’s condition, prompting Norman to dismiss the other research teams and fund Richard and his wife.
• The footage revealed that Richard and his wife later vanished with their research, leaving Peter and Harry uncertain about what had driven them to flee.
• Peter vowed to investigate Richard alone, but Harry insisted on helping him and refused to let him face the danger by himself.
• Peter helped Harry modify the Green Goblin Armor and Gliders, and several days later they rode together toward the abandoned subway station.
• Richard continued his research with a strange substance in his palm while the Giant Spider watched fearfully nearby.
• Peter and Harry arrived openly, and the piled-up garbage blocking the subway station entrance collapsed.

Peter Parker and Harry Osborn confronted Richard Parker, who revealed his plan to turn the world into a kingdom of spiders for his lord. Richard disabled Peter’s spider-derived powers, but Peter used his remaining thunder power to blast the Giant Spider as he continued his attack.

• Harry Osborn fired at Richard Parker, but the Giant Spider blocked the laser and attacked Harry with a web that Peter destroyed using thunder.
• Richard Parker revealed that he had obtained Peter Parker’s mutated genes, and a shadowy Spider-Spear Man attacked Peter after his Spider-Sense failed.
• Harry Osborn knocked Peter out of the Spider-Spear Man’s attack, sacrificing his Glider, while Richard described the Spider-Spear Man as a failed experiment.
• Richard Parker declared that he wanted all life to evolve into spiders and the world to become his lord’s back garden.
• Peter charged Richard, but Richard suppressed Peter’s spider powers; Peter used thunder to blast the Giant Spider, sending it crashing down injured.

Peter Parker fought Richard Parker’s enhanced Spider-Spear Men and Giant Spider while his spider abilities remained suppressed, but strange patterns eventually took control of his body. His body regained and greatly amplified its spider power, then drained two Spider-Spear Men of their essence while Peter watched helplessly.

• Peter Parker used lightning to defeat the Giant Spider and several Spider-Spear Men, then Richard Parker infused them with strange matter that healed and strengthened them.
• The altered Spider-Spear Men gained signs of self-awareness, and Richard Parker sent them after Harry Osborn while Peter struggled to protect him.
• Jarvis installed a combat guidance program in Harry Osborn’s armor, helping him delay the Spider-Spear Men as Peter fought the enhanced creatures.
• Richard Parker’s strange patterns overwhelmed Peter Parker and took control of his body, restoring his spider power at a greatly increased level.
• Two Spider-Spear Men attacked the immobilized Peter, and his uncontrolled body pierced them with spider silk and absorbed their essence, leaving them as dried corpses.

Richard Parker captured Harry Osborn and began injecting him with an experimental liquid while using the strange substance to control Peter Parker and the Giant Spider. The Avengers arrived and rescued Harry, but Richard strengthened Peter and used him to attack Pietro as the Giant Spider blocked the team; Barry Allen was then struck through the abdomen by Harry.

• Richard Parker had the Spider-Spear Men strip Harry Osborn of his armor and carry him to the experiment table, where he began injecting him with a liquid.
• Peter Parker remained unable to control his body as he watched Richard experiment on Harry.
• Pietro rushed in with the Avengers, knocked Richard aside, and pulled the syringe from Harry before the injection was complete.
• Richard used the strange substance to strengthen Peter, who attacked Pietro, while the Giant Spider blocked Tony Stark and the others.
• Barry Allen took Harry away from the fight, but as he tried to return, Harry's palm pierced through his abdomen.

Harry Osborn attacked Barry Allen after Richard Parker’s experimental substance altered and controlled him, while the Avengers struggled to contain the Giant Spider and reach Peter Parker. After Pietro broke through to Richard Parker and badly wounded him, Richard Parker decided to use the strange substance on himself.

• Susan Storm restrained Harry Osborn after he stabbed Barry Allen, and Steve shielded Harry from the Giant Spider’s attack.
• Steve ordered Susan to protect Harry and Barry while the others dealt with the Giant Spider; Tony Stark limited his firepower to avoid collapsing the underground space.
• Peter Parker’s growing speed overwhelmed Pietro, who could not fight back without risking serious harm to him.
• Pietro killed the Spider-Spear Men that rushed him, then dodged Peter Parker’s webs and struck Richard Parker with all his strength.
• Richard Parker survived Pietro’s attack and merged the strange substance into his own body.

Richard Parker summoned a Dimensional Being, whose consciousness discovered that Earth was a composite universe and became eager to claim it. The Avengers rescued Peter Parker and attacked the Giant Spider’s cocoon, but the Dimensional Being saved Richard Parker from Tony Stark’s blast.

• Richard Parker opened a spatial rift, prompting Tony Stark to call Robet for support as a terrifying presence began to arrive.
• The Dimensional Being questioned Richard Parker, then recognized the universe as a composite one and considered claiming it for himself.
• Pietro knocked the helpless Peter Parker unconscious and carried him back to the Avengers.
• The Giant Spider entered a cocoon, and Tony Stark pierced it with a powerful Repulsor Blast that continued toward Richard Parker.
• Richard Parker begged for help, and the Dimensional Being annihilated Tony Stark’s blast with a wisp of aura.

Naxhi possessed Richard Parker, transformed the Giant Spider’s body into a swarm of obedient spiders, and sent them to attack the Avengers. As the Avengers struggled to defend themselves from the spiders’ poisonous ambushes, Naxhi grew interested in recruiting their unusual abilities.

• Naxhi took control of Richard Parker’s body and transformed his lower half into a spider-like form.
• Naxhi used the dying Giant Spider’s body to spawn a swarm of small spiders and ordered them to cultivate subordinates and turn the Avengers into his children.
• Tony Stark called for his Mech Legion after Jarvis detected many new life-forms underground.
• The spiders scattered into the darkness and attacked the Avengers, while Pietro killed one near Harry Osborn and Lorna neutralized the released toxin.
• Naxhi watched Lorna, Pietro, and Tony Stark defend the group and became excited by the abilities they could bring to his dimension.

The Avengers fought Naxhi’s poisonous spiders, unaware that their deaths were helping toxins gather in the air. Jarvis detected more than a thousand Spider-Man-like people approaching, and Tony Stark led the Avengers into the air to avoid fighting them while they waited for the hidden enemy to reveal himself.

• Tony Stark reassured the Avengers that Lorna could protect them until reinforcements arrived, and Johnny Storm and the others attacked the spiders in the darkness.
• The Avengers killed numerous spiders as Naxhi watched from hiding and the spiders’ toxins accumulated in the air.
• Jarvis detected over a thousand people with abnormal life signs resembling Peter Parker, and the Avengers realized a Spider-Man Army was approaching.
• Naxhi revealed in his thoughts that he intended to use his Spider-Man-producing ability to evolve into a Spider Demon God.
• The Spider-Man Army surrounded the Avengers, and Tony Stark ordered them into armor so they could fly out of reach while waiting for their enemy to appear.

Naxhi trapped the Avengers in a toxin-filled domain, poisoned and captured them, then began transforming Peter Parker and Harry Osborn. Robet arrived, rescued the captives, and restored Peter Parker’s control of his body.

• Tony Stark and the Avengers realized they had been poisoned, while Lorna discovered the toxins had merged with the air and were difficult to remove.
• Johnny Storm tried to escape but was forcibly returned, and Morbius concluded they were trapped inside a domain.
• The Spider-Man Army bound the unconscious Avengers in webs and lowered them to the ground, where Naxhi revealed himself.
• Naxhi awakened Peter Parker with his power and prepared to continue transforming Harry Osborn.
• Robet arrived, pierced Naxhi’s attack with a beam, rescued the captives, raised a barrier, and healed the Avengers.
• Peter Parker woke with his strength increased and his control of his body restored.