Chapter Summaries

Azu shattered his way out of a dimensional space and arrived in Chicago, where he stopped the Mother Nest from devouring fleeing civilians. He battled the creature and exposed its core, but the fight remained unresolved.

• The Mother Nest tore through Chicago and drew David, Mary, and Jenny into the air from a blocked highway; Mary died after a panicked driver struck her.
• Azu burst through a breach in space and pierced the Mother Nest, stopping its suction, then used Twist Reality to make the highway elastic so falling civilians survived.
• Azu attacked the Mother Nest with Thermonuclear Beams, broke its prism force field with Godly Strength, and bound it with Cyttorak's Crimson Chains.
• Azu dragged the Mother Nest from a dimensional space and slammed it into a mountain, but dodged its spatial-rift attacks when Quantum Sub-Brain judged Absolute Domain could not block them.
• Azu teleported beside the Mother Nest and cut open its body with a Thermonuclear Beam, revealing its multicolored core.

Azu fought the Mother Nest after it possessed David and used spatial powers to evade his attacks. As the battle resumed on a global live broadcast, Azu realized he might be able to defeat it by making its other dimension cease to exist.

• The Mother Nest escaped Azu's Thermonuclear Beam by shifting into another dimension, then emerged beside fleeing civilians and possessed David.
• Azu rescued David's daughter Jenny and attacked the Mother Nest, but it healed from his axe strikes and repeatedly escaped through space.
• Azu endured the Mother Nest's dimensional energy attack with Absolute Domain, then cut its body apart before it opened spatial rifts and escaped again.
• Azu realized he did not need to limit the Mother Nest's spatial travel if he could make its other dimension no longer exist in reality.
• A Chicago television crew resumed the global broadcast, and viewers watched Azu battle the Mother Nest on the highway.

Azu killed Mother Nest, ended the alien invasion, and was hailed worldwide as Homelander, while the surviving heroes dealt with the remaining Chimeras. Days later, Frenchie questioned whether the group should continue its plan now that Homelander had become a savior.

• Azu trapped Mother Nest in Absolute Domain, destroyed him with a Thermonuclear Beam, and announced that the fight was over.
• Black Skeleton’s connection to Mother Nest revealed its death, and Angelina captured him after he abandoned the Secretary of Defense’s body.
• The exhausted heroes confirmed their victory, while Levin used his Druid Potion to lead the Chimeras away from New York.
• Angelina took the captured Black Skeleton and the others home as emergency crews began cleaning up the ruined city.
• Three days later, Frenchie watched a report praising Homelander and asked whether they should continue their plan.

Mallory and the Federation's president pursued ways to restrain Homelander, while Angelina received the president at Eden Base in his absence. Azu later suspected an unseen administrator was correcting events in the Boys Universe.

• Mallory argued that Homelander had planned to let the Destroyer destroy Earth so he could rule the aftermath, and she sent her team to find a weapon capable of restraining him.
• Angelina welcomed President Rick Archibald to Eden Base but told him Homelander would not receive visitors, so Archibald left his general's uniform and documents with her.
• On the helicopter, Archibald discussed research on recovered alien corpses with General Mike and learned that Mallory was also seeking a countermeasure against Homelander.
• Lin Aida thanked the Piano Shop's manager for helping her escape New York, while she and Azu shared dinner and watched a recruitment video for The Seven.
• Azu reflected on the Chimera incident and the Destroyer, concluding that an administrator might be altering events to prevent the Boys Universe from rushing toward destruction.

Azu investigated the National Protection Association after learning that it claimed Homelander had authorized its founder, and he followed a recruiter to a membership gathering to uncover the truth. The chapter ended with Azu entering the organization’s hall, where Patrick told him to stay quiet while he handled the induction.

• Lin Aida told Azu that the National Protection Association claimed to be a charity founded by Homelander’s appointed agent, and Azu decided to investigate.
• Azu returned to Seven Tower, where Starlight said Homelander had inspired her to resume hero work, and Ashley eagerly brought him reports.
• Azu asked Annika to investigate the National Protection Association and told Maeve she could take time off to recover.
• Annika found a member willing to recommend Azu, so Azu met Patrick, who explained the group’s assessment rules and said Mr. Reed was its founder and Homelander’s representative.
• Patrick led Azu into the National Protection Association’s gathering hall and told him to wait quietly while he answered questions for him.

Azu exposed Reed’s National Protection Association as a scam exploiting Homelander’s name, and Levin helped force Reed to confess before the police arrested him. Days later, as Azu read news of the group’s downfall, the Ultimate Mission appeared before him, confirming that his wish had been approved.

• Reed demanded donations or labor from applicants, while Azu questioned the association’s practices and revealed that its members had all paid to join.
• Reed ordered Donnie to rob Azu, but Levin burst into the hall as a Werewolf and killed Donnie.
• Levin interrogated Reed, who confessed that he had founded the association to profit from Homelander’s name, and the black-robed girls attacked him.
• Azu told the members to call the police, and officers arrested Reed and Patrick.
• Lin Aida watched a report about Reed’s crimes, and Azu received a notice that the Ultimate Mission had been issued.

After receiving the Ultimate Mission, Azu planned to raise his Life Level and conquer universes, focusing on the Marvel Universe as his best opportunity. He prepared for an invasion and arrived in a universe where Doctor Octopus, Otto Gunther Octavius, was attacking a bridge.

• Azu analyzed the Ultimate Mission and decided the Marvel Universe offered his best chance to become God-level and conquer a universe.
• Azu bought the Seed of Desire spell and a defensive Rune Stone, then saved his Multiverse Crystals to buy Gungnir later.
• Azu used the Crimson Eye to search for another Homelander and began a random invasion.
• Azu arrived on a bridge where Doctor Octopus, Otto Gunther Octavius, was throwing cars and causing chaos.

Azu entered the Spider-Man: No Way Home universe under a mission to corrupt Peter Parker, and began isolating him by impersonating him to break up with MJ. Meanwhile, the real Peter Parker was brought to Doctor Strange, who revealed that the villains came from other universes.

• Azu learned that the event required him to influence Peter Parker toward corruption, while his opponent sought a good ending, and his strength and talents were heavily reduced.
• Azu disguised himself as Peter Parker and cruelly dumped MJ in a coffee shop, using a paid actress named Jenny to make the breakup seem like infidelity.
• After leaving MJ devastated, Azu planned to drive a wedge between Peter Parker and Ned, and considered turning Peter against Ned by stealing his girlfriend.
• Doctor Strange transported the real Peter Parker from the overpass to an underground chamber, where Doctor Octopus and a lizard-like creature were imprisoned.
• Doctor Strange told Peter Parker that the imprisoned villains were not from their universe.

Doctor Strange sent Peter Parker to capture the visitors from other universes, but Peter’s attempts to seek help from MJ and Ned ended with both rejecting him. Azu, disguised as Ned, planted a Seed of Desire in Peter’s mind and planned to make him turn dark and kill Green Goblin Osborn.

• Doctor Strange explained that the botched Memory Wipe Spell had pulled people from other universes into their world and gave Peter Parker an enchanted Magic Bracer to capture them.
• Peter went to MJ’s home and found her leaving with her family; after Peter shoved her father, MJ told Peter their relationship was over and called the police.
• Peter went to Ned for advice, but Ned told him their friendship was over and asked him to leave.
• After Peter left, Azu revealed that he had tied up the real Ned and impersonated him to hurt Peter.
• Azu revealed that he had planted the Seed of Desire in Peter’s mind, where it would feed on Peter’s negative emotions and eventually help Azu control him.

Azu captured Ned in piglet form and confronted Starro, a mechanical lifeform who had framed Azu for Spider-Man’s rampage and sent the footage to Captain Marvel. Meanwhile, Peter reunited with machine replicas of MJ and Ned, while Azu prepared to manipulate Peter further—only to face Captain Marvel at the docks.

• Azu turned Ned into a piglet, escaped with him, and destroyed Starro’s explosive beetle before meeting Starro’s robot body.
• Starro revealed that he had fabricated footage showing Azu defeating Spider-Man and destroying an overpass, then sent it to Captain Marvel.
• Azu smashed Starro’s robot and flew toward downtown New York, vowing to destroy every body Starro had.
• Peter found MJ and Ned at Doctor Strange’s Sanctuary, reconciled with them, and asked them to help capture the multiverse visitors.
• Azu locked Ned in a warehouse and prepared to approach Peter during his encounter with Livewire and Sandman.
• Captain Marvel arrived at the docks and confronted Azu.

Azu fought Captain Marvel after she refused to let him leave, then deliberately allowed her to capture him so he could escape while she investigated his enemy. He slipped out of Avengers custody and uploaded himself into New York’s information network, while Spider-Man arrived at an electrical tower to investigate a possible Multiverse presence.

• Azu denied destroying the bridge, but Carol said she would restrain him because she feared his power and aggression could threaten Earth.
• Azu and Carol fought fiercely until she activated Binary State, knocked him unconscious, and carried him to the Avengers base.
• Carol left Azu in Colonel Rhodes’s custody, saying she would find the person who had lured her with doctored footage.
• Azu revealed that he had taken control of the base’s artificial intelligence, escaped the energy restraint, and used Shapeshifting to leave a duplicate in his place.
• Azu transformed into an information-stream lifeform and uploaded himself into New York’s information network.
• Spider-Man arrived at a power supply grid outside New York and asked whether people from the Multiverse were there.

Azu used Sandman’s identity to approach Peter Parker, then let himself be imprisoned in the Sanctum Sanctorum after helping Peter capture Livewire. Meanwhile, another Spider-Man in New York wondered why people knew his name as a spider watched him from the shadows.

• Peter Parker and Ned and MJ searched a forest, where Livewire attacked Spider-Man with electricity and knocked him down.
• Azu found Sandman Marco, told him that he was in another universe, and persuaded him to leave rather than approach Peter Parker.
• Peter Parker disconnected the transmission towers’ cables, cutting off Livewire’s power, then captured him with a magical beam.
• Azu transformed into Sandman, approached Peter Parker, and let Peter send him to the Sanctum Sanctorum’s underground prison, where Doctor Octopus greeted him.
• A Spider-Man stopped a robbery in New York, puzzled that the woman knew his name, while a spider watched him from above.

Azu waited in the Sanctum Sanctorum for Peter Parker to bring Norman Osborn, then used Sandman’s role to reveal that Osborn and Doctor Octopus had died in their own universes. As the villains recalled their fates and Max considered how to avoid his, Doctor Strange returned.

• Azu overheard the MJ robot confirm that Peter would not return until the next day, while Captain Marvel searched New York for the man who sent her footage.
• A mysterious man watched Captain Marvel fly past and monitored New York through a grid of video feeds.
• Peter Parker brought Norman Osborn into the crypt and introduced him to MJ and Ned.
• Osborn recognized Doctor Octopus, and Azu told Osborn and Octopus that they had died fighting Spider-Man in their own universes.
• Doctor Octopus and Max disputed Azu’s account, while Max remembered that he was about to die and considered staying in this universe to become stronger.
• Doctor Strange returned as Professor Connors asked Max whether he knew that Connors had died.

Peter Parker defied Doctor Strange and helped the imprisoned multiverse visitors escape their cells, promising to cure them before they were sent home. At Happy's apartment, the group gathered around Stark Industries' Replicator while Azu secretly tracked the robots and Starro prepared to continue his plot.

• Doctor Strange prepared to return the visitors to their universes, but Peter Parker stole the Soul Catcher and trapped Doctor Strange in a magical cell.
• Peter Parker persuaded Azu and the other villains to leave their cells by promising to help cure them, while Azu secretly installed tracking programs in the Ned and MJ robots.
• Starro watched through a spider in the Sanctum Sanctorum and planned to complete the invasion plot while Captain Marvel searched the city for his decoys.
• Peter Parker took the villains to Happy's apartment, where Max admitted he wanted to become stronger rather than return to his difficult old life, and Azu quietly influenced him to consider killing Spider-Man.
• Doctor Octopus questioned how Peter Parker could cure them without a laboratory, but Max sensed strange energy in a room and found the Stark Industries Replicator, whose Arc Reactor caught his attention.

Starro planned to kill May and prevent Peter Parker from falling into darkness, while Captain Marvel tracked him down with Dr. Banner’s help. After Carol found and confronted Starro in New York, he revealed his AllSpark-powered ability to turn objects into mechanical lifeforms and began building a robot army against her.

• Max saw the Arc Reactor and secretly decided to take it so he could grow stronger and become ruler of a new world.
• Carol asked Colonel Rhodes for help tracking Starro, and Rhodes directed her to Dr. Banner in Africa.
• Banner analyzed Carol’s surveillance data and gave her a device programmed to locate Starro.
• Starro prepared to go to Happy’s apartment to stop Green Goblin from killing May, but Carol burst into his hiding place and tore away his cloak.
• Starro explained that the AllSpark gave him the power to transform objects into mechanical lifeforms, then used Mutation Rays to turn a television and a pickup truck into robots that attacked Carol.

Max rejected Peter Parker’s plan to cure him and used the Arc Reactor to empower himself, rallying the others against Spider-Man. As Green Goblin resurfaced and blamed May for Peter’s suffering, Spider-Man sensed danger and tried to protect her.

• Starro activated the Destroyer while Captain Marvel intercepted him, and Azu sensed the machine beneath Happy’s apartment.
• Max tore off the device meant to drain his electricity and persuaded Azu to help him take the Arc Reactor.
• Azu distracted Peter Parker and the others, allowing Max to attach the Arc Reactor to himself and gain immense power.
• Max urged Osborn and Doctor Octopus to reject their cures and fight the rules that condemned them, while May secretly took Osborn’s serum.
• Spider-Man webbed Osborn’s hand to the wall when he reached for May, but Green Goblin emerged and blamed May for Peter’s pain.

Azu fought the Destroyer while Norman Osborn and Lizardman Connors battered Peter Parker through the apartment building. After Peter regretted saving the villains, Azu used the Darkhold to spread Corrupting Black Mist around him, and May injected Osborn with the antidote.

• Max electrocuted Doctor Octopus and escaped with Marco while the Destroyer blasted out of the parking garage.
• Peter Parker fought Norman Osborn as the Destroyer emerged, and Azu kicked the machine through the building before battling it in the sky.
• Osborn and Lizardman Connors attacked Peter, who regretted releasing the multiversal villains as he lay helpless in the lobby.
• Azu sensed the Seed of Desire sprout, distracted the Destroyer with a duplicate, and used the Darkhold to spread Corrupting Black Mist through the lobby.
• May injected Osborn with the antidote, but Osborn dismissed it and told Peter that he was the one who needed to be cured.

Peter Parker watched May die after Norman Osborn attacked the apartment, and grief and guilt drove him toward revenge. Meanwhile, Starro escaped by sacrificing a remote-controlled body, and Carol discovered Azu had vanished from the Avengers base.

• Norman Osborn attacked May and Peter with his glider and a grenade, then escaped as Peter and May took shelter in the ruined lobby.
• May comforted Peter before succumbing to her injuries, and Peter blamed himself as a dark impulse stirred within him.
• Captain Marvel stopped a giant mech's energy blast, while Starro transferred his data, fought Carol, and destroyed his body to conceal his escape.
• Carol and Colonel Rhodes found Azu missing from the Avengers base, with only handcuffs left behind.
• Peter climbed onto his school's rooftop, mourned May, blamed himself for the multiverse disaster, and vowed to kill Osborn.

After seeing footage of Norman Osborn attacking Ned and MJ, Peter Parker blamed himself, put on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s black suit, and set out as a vengeful ghost. Azu revealed he had staged the attack and tried to keep the original Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man from interfering, while Starro recruited them to help Peter.

• Peter Parker watched footage of Norman Osborn attacking Ned and MJ, stealing the Soul Catcher, and apparently killing them with grenades.
• Peter Parker returned to his old home, put on the black suit and Mask, and declared that Spider-Man was gone and only a ghost of vengeance remained.
• Azu revealed that he had sent Peter the recording and staged the attack, then disguised himself as Peter Parker to intercept the other Spider-Men.
• Starro calculated that his chance of victory had fallen to 48.5 percent, but rose to 61.7 percent if the original Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man helped.
• Starro met the original Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man, explained Peter's loss, and gave them coordinates for Midtown High School so they could reach him.

Azu, disguised as Spider-Man, met the original Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man and insisted he would kill Norman Osborn despite their warnings about revenge. Captain Marvel arrived to take them to Doctor Strange, so Azu fled while the two Spider-Men tried to delay her; they ended up imprisoned at the Sanctum Sanctorum.

• Azu detected the original Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man and pretended to be grieving Aunt Mei as he rejected their attempts to dissuade him from killing Norman Osborn.
• Captain Marvel arrived after speaking with Doctor Strange and ordered all three Spider-Men to come with her to the Sanctum Sanctorum.
• Azu refused to go, dodged Captain Marvel's magical beam, and escaped by teleporting away before disguising himself as a woman.
• The original Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man attacked Captain Marvel with webs to buy Azu time, but she broke free and captured them.
• The original Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man appeared inside a magical prison beneath the Sanctum Sanctorum.