Chapter Summaries

Peter received Wakanda’s Vibranium Spider Spears and began training to coordinate them with his fighting style. Meanwhile, Strange, Vision, and Wanda asked Shuri to find a way to separate the Mind Stone from Vision, and Shuri proposed keeping it protected in Wakanda while the team took the Time Stone with them.

• T'Challa explained that the Vibranium Spider Spears used Vibranium B alloy, which could emit vibrations capable of damaging metals, and warned Peter about their limits against Uru Metal weapons.
• Peter connected the retractable spears to Karen, learned their close-combat and ranged modes, and went to a Wakandan training room to practice using them.
• Strange told Vision and Wanda that Thanos was targeting the Mind Stone and suggested removing it before Thanos could take it.
• Wanda worried that removing the Mind Stone might kill Vision, while Vision admitted he had believed there was no way to separate it.
• Strange, Vision, and Wanda asked Shuri for help, and she proposed separating the Mind Stone from Vision and leaving it in Wakanda while Strange carried the Time Stone.

Peter studied Shuri’s procedure to remove the Mind Stone from Vision, then entered Wakanda’s Virtual Combat Room to test his combat skills. The room generated a virtual version of his suit and explained that all combatants had equal physical abilities.

• Shuri explained how she would encode and replicate neural synapses to replace Vision’s Mind Stone, while Peter watched and gained ideas about artificial intelligence.
• Shuri completed the first neural-synapse encoding and left Grio to handle the rest of Vision’s procedure.
• T’Challa mobilized Wakanda’s forces as everyone prepared for the coming battle, and Peter received his Vibranium Nano Iron Spider Suit.
• Peter entered Wakanda’s Virtual Combat Room, where Grio explained that the simulation created his suit and equalized everyone’s physical abilities.
• Peter braced himself to begin training in the virtual plaza.

Peter trained in Wakanda’s Virtual Combat Room to sharpen his technique for the coming battle against Thanos and the Black Order. Meanwhile, Thanos’s forces devastated Xandar, and Queen Adora demanded to know why he had attacked her planet.

• Peter fought a Black Panther phantom in the Virtual Combat Room and trained there throughout the morning.
• Peter reflected that overpowering weaker opponents had dulled his combat instincts and decided he needed better technique against Thanos and the Black Order.
• Thanos’s Chitauri army and Sakaaran mercenaries ravaged Xandar, killing civilians and Nova Corps soldiers while the invaders gathered corpses as spoils.
• Queen Adora knelt among the ruins of the Nova Corps command center and demanded that Thanos explain his attack on Xandar.

Thanos crushed the Cosmic Orb, claimed the Power Stone, and killed Queen Adora after revealing that he had sent Ronan against Xandar. As Thanos headed for Knowhere, Richard Rider vowed to avenge Xandar, while the Collector fled and left a box containing a deadly red gem behind.

• Thanos removed the Power Stone from the Cosmic Orb and placed it in his Infinity Gauntlet.
• Thanos admitted that he had sent Ronan to attack Xandar, then crushed Queen Adora's head and ordered the Black Order to move out for Knowhere.
• Richard Rider swore to avenge the Xandarians and flew toward Asgard to seek All-Father Odin's help.
• Thanos and the Dark Order arrived at Knowhere, where the Collector had recently fled after learning Thanos had obtained the Power Stone.
• A scavenger opened the box the Collector had left behind, and a red energy wave killed the nearby scavengers and cosmic pirates as the red gem fell to the ground.

Thanos found Knowhere deserted and destroyed, then ordered a search for the missing Collector and resolved to pursue the Infinity Stones with his full army. He planned to go to Asgard for the Space Stone and then send Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight to Earth for the Mind Stone.

• Thanos arrived at Knowhere and discovered that its city had been destroyed and the Collector was missing.
• Thanos learned that Gamora might be among the Guardians of the Galaxy and concluded that the locations of all six Infinity Stones were known.
• Thanos ordered Chitauri soldiers to search Knowhere and rebuked Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight for failing to watch the Collector.
• Corvus Glaive took satisfaction in Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight's failure after explaining how he had maneuvered them into the assignment.
• Thanos refused Ebony Maw's offer to lead the Chitauri to Asgard and ordered them to accompany him there, then retrieve the Mind Stone from Earth.

Thanos recovered the Reality Stone from the ruins of The Collector’s residence on Knowhere and added it to the Infinity Gauntlet. With the Power and Reality Stones in his possession, he set a course for Asgard to pursue the Space Stone.

• A Chitauri officer told Thanos that a red substance in the ruins might be the Reality Stone and that it had destroyed soldiers who tried to retrieve it.
• Thanos reached the ruins, touched the red crystal, and used the Power Stone to suppress the Reality Stone’s attempt to erase him.
• The Collector’s hidden trap erupted, destroying the nearby buildings and Chitauri soldiers, but Thanos survived and placed the Reality Stone in the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Thanos recalled how he had learned about the Infinity Stones from Lorespeaker and resolved to collect them all to achieve his goal.
• Thanos returned to his Floating Throne and ordered it to set course for Asgard, where Hela held the Space Stone.

Asgard was destroyed after Thor released Surtur, leaving its survivors to mourn their lost homeland aboard their escaping spacecraft. On Earth, Strange located Asgard while Peter, Stark, and the Wakandan expedition prepared to pass through a portal to reach it.

• Hela attacked Surtur, but he killed her and destroyed the Bifrost as Asgard burned.
• Thor and the surviving Asgardians watched Asgard explode into dust, and Heimdall told Thor that Asgard was its people.
• Strange and the sorcerers at the New York Sanctum Sanctorum sensed Asgard and opened portals.
• Peter, Stark, Vision, Wanda, T'Challa, Captain America, and their forces gathered in Wakanda with aircraft and weapons for the expedition.
• A massive portal appeared in Wakanda's square.

Peter, Stark, Vision, and Strange reached the ruins of Asgard and learned how Hela’s conflict with Odin had made its destruction inevitable. They located Thor’s ship and arrived just as Thor’s people prepared to crown him king, leaving Thor and Hulk stunned to see the familiar-looking Quinjets.

• Peter and the others emerged from portals near the blazing remains of Asgard and searched for Thor’s ship.
• Strange explained that Hela had helped Odin conquer the Nine Realms before their feud led to her imprisonment, and that she would eventually have returned to threaten Asgard.
• Friday located the Asgardian ship, and Strange opened a portal so Peter, Stark, and the others could reach it quickly.
• As Thor’s people prepared to crown him, an Asgardian warrior reported unknown energy signals near the ship, prompting Thor and the others to prepare for battle.
• Peter’s three fighters appeared beside the Asgardian ship, and Thor and Hulk recognized their resemblance to a Quinjet.

Thor joined Stark, Rogers, Strange, and Peter to plan an ambush for Thanos’s forces, sending Asgard’s civilians to Earth while keeping the ship as bait. After the evacuation, Peter met Korg and discovered that Miek was alive and could build armor from metal.

• Stark asked Thor if he could still fight, and Thor said he would lead the Asgardian warriors who remained.
• Strange coordinated portals to Earth while Thor and Heimdall organized the civilians’ evacuation.
• The Asgardian civilians went through the portals, and Heimdall stayed on Earth to prepare for the expeditionary force.
• Peter approached Korg and learned that the rock-skinned warrior came from Planet LIA and was holding Miek, whom he thought he had killed.
• Miek came back to life, broke free of Korg, and made armor and blades from pieces of a metal table.

Peter and the others chose Kampa Star as a likely battleground and waited there while the Asgardian ship acted as bait for Thanos. After a week of fighting sandworms for amusement, Peter, Hulk, and Korg learned that Thanos's forces had attacked the ship.

• Peter confirmed that Korg did not know Mister Fantastic or Invisible Woman, then returned to Stark and the others.
• Thor and the others chose Kampa Star, a deserted planet on the route to a nearby Star Gate where Strange predicted the Black Order might attack.
• Strange opened portals so the three Earth aircraft could reach Kampa Star, while the Asgardian ship continued onward as bait.
• Peter, Stark, and the others built defensive fortifications on the planet's red stone mountain and waited a week for Thanos.
• Peter, Hulk, and Korg went into the desert to fight the attacking sandworms and competed to see who could kill the most.
• Friday called Peter, Hulk, and Korg back to base after reporting that Thanos's forces had attacked the Asgardian ship.

Thanos intercepted the Asgardian ship and entered it, only to discover a portal that led into a prepared ambush. After using the Reality Stone to turn the portal into a wormhole, he led his forces through and faced a missile barrage from Stark and his allies.

• Thanos surrounded the slowed Asgardian ship with his forces and used the Reality Stone and Power Stone to seize it.
• Thanos and Corvus Glaive boarded the ship and found it empty except for a glowing portal.
• A spiderweb pulled an elite Chitauri soldier through the portal, and Thanos shattered the illusion hiding a landscape of yellow sand.
• Thanos used the Reality Stone to turn the portal into a natural wormhole and led Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, and the Chitauri soldiers through it.
• Stark and his allies bombarded the arriving forces with missiles, killing the Chitauri soldiers while Thanos, Corvus Glaive, and Cull Obsidian survived.

Peter and the others ambushed Thanos and the Black Order on Kampa Star, where the battle quickly split into several fights. Peter broke Cull Obsidian’s wrist, then used his Vibranium Spider Spears to pierce the armor on his back.

• Peter, Stark, Thor, Hulk, and Loki confronted Thanos, while Strange sent Wanda and Vision to the second-echelon front.
• Thor charged Thanos, and Stark, Hulk, and Loki joined the fight as Peter attacked Cull Obsidian.
• Peter broke Cull Obsidian’s wrist with a punch, shocking Corvus Glaive and drawing Thanos’s attention.
• Thanos summoned red sand-and-stone giants, captured Loki, and demanded to know where Loki had hidden the Mind Stone Scepter and the Tesseract.
• Corvus Glaive kept Stark and Hulk at bay, while Peter tested Cull Obsidian’s strength before changing tactics.
• Peter slipped around Cull Obsidian’s swinging arm and drove his Vibranium Spider Spears through the armor on his back.

Peter killed Cull Obsidian with the Vibranium Spider Spears, then moved to help Stark against Corvus Glaive. As Peter entered the bombardment zone, Corvus asked where Cull Obsidian was.

• Peter pierced Cull Obsidian with the Vibranium Spider Spears and fired their energy beams from inside his body.
• Peter stunned Cull Obsidian with blows to the head and jaw, then pierced his head with a spear and killed him.
• Peter saw Stark pinning Corvus Glaive beneath relentless fire while Hulk, Thor, and Loki fought Thanos.
• Peter told Stark he had taken out Cull Obsidian, and Stark opened a path through the barrage for him.
• Peter rushed toward Corvus Glaive, who spotted him and asked where Cull Obsidian was.

Peter fought Corvus Glaive while Stark supported him with missile fire, using his symbiote’s healing and speed to overcome Corvus’s Uru Metal weapons and Telekinetic Barrier. Peter killed Corvus, leaving both him and Cull Obsidian dead.

• Peter’s Spider-Sense helped him dodge Corvus Glaive’s Uru Metal shuttles, but one pierced his body before his symbiote-enhanced healing closed the wound.
• Peter told Stark he had a way to kill Corvus and charged in while storing kinetic energy in his Vibranium Spider Spears.
• Peter used a lightweight Second Generation Venom Suit to evade the shuttles and get close to Corvus.
• Peter combined a punch with three charged energy beams to break Corvus’s Telekinetic Barrier, then stunned him with an Electric Web.
• Peter dragged Corvus toward him and punched his head apart, killing him alongside Cull Obsidian.

Captain America and Black Panther led teams into two Chitauri motherships to disable them, while Captain America’s team fought through the ship and used Grio to shut it down. The chapter left T’Challa’s team facing fierce resistance aboard Ebony Maw’s personal vessel.

• Captain America and Black Panther’s teams infiltrated separate Chitauri motherships aboard Royal Talon Fighters, using Wakandan gear and Grio’s support.
• Captain America’s team reached its mothership’s main control room and held off waves of Chitauri soldiers while Grio hacked the controls.
• Grio forced the mothership to shut down, and Captain America’s team withdrew with four dead Wakandan warriors and more than twenty wounded.
• Captain America wondered how Tony Stark and the others were faring against Thanos as his team headed toward the next mothership.
• T’Challa’s team encountered fierce resistance after entering Ebony Maw’s personal vessel.

T’Challa’s team fought Ebony Maw aboard the mixed warship until Vision arrived to help, while Doctor Strange returned to Kampa Star and found Thanos battling alone. Peter faced Thanos’s Power Stone attack head-on and survived after being driven deep underground, where sandworms began closing in.

• T’Challa and the Wakandans were trapped by Sakaaran mercenaries, and Ebony Maw killed several warriors before Black Panther and the Dora Milaje held him back.
• Vision arrived and knocked Ebony Maw away, stabilizing the fight, while Doctor Strange left to support Peter’s team on Kampa Star.
• Thanos caught Loki trying to stab him, crushed his head, and hurled him away before punching through Hulk’s spine; Thor rescued Hulk but was quickly defeated.
• Thanos sent a towering wave of red sand at Peter, who refused Iron Man’s offer of help and met the attack with his Nano-Iron Suit and Second Generation Venom Suit.
• The impact drove Peter thousands of meters underground and badly damaged his suits, but Karen repaired them enough to protect him as sandworms approached.

Peter used the Second Generation Venom Symbiote to repair his injured body, then fought off a sandworm as he returned to the surface. Aboveground, Stark deployed his numbered Iron Man Armors to protect Peter, but Thanos unleashed sandstorms that disrupted the armors and scattered the battlefield.

• Peter used the Second Generation Venom Symbiote to replace damaged tissue and fully heal himself within moments.
• A giant sandworm swallowed Peter, but he stabbed its neural center and made it burrow rapidly toward the surface.
• Thanos tried to pull Peter from the ground with the Reality Stone, but Stark ordered Friday to deploy the numbered Iron Man Armors.
• Stark's armors surrounded Thanos and attacked, but Thanos created numerous sandstorm tornadoes that disrupted Friday's control and swept armors away.
• Stark switched to semi-manual control as the sandstorms obscured the battlefield and left Hulk and Thor lost.

Stark used a nuclear missile against Thanos, but the Reality Stone transformed it into sand, and Thanos gravely wounded Stark. Strange returned in time to rescue him, but Stark chose to keep fighting while Strange refused to retreat.

• Stark redirected the Iron Man Armor units skyward, where their Arc Reactors formed a signal matrix that weakened the electromagnetic interference and let the suits attack Thanos.
• Stark lured Thanos into position for a nuclear strike and sent Hulk and Thor away, while Friday reported that Peter was injured but located several kilometers above the ground.
• Thanos used the Reality Stone to turn the nuclear warhead into red sand, then tore away Stark's faceplate and stabbed him in the abdomen after breaking his nano-blade.
• Strange returned and rescued Stark, who ordered him to send Thor, Hulk, and Peter back to Earth while he held Thanos off.
• Strange refused to retreat and stood beside Stark, who argued they needed to preserve their forces for a final battle.

Peter recognized that Thanos relied on the Infinity Stones for his strongest attacks and organized a plan to restrain him and take the Infinity Gauntlet. Thor returned to battle with newly awakened lightning powers, while Strange and Peter began their coordinated assault on Thanos.

• Peter explained that the group should distract Thanos, restrain him, and remove his Infinity Gauntlet, and Hulk and Thor agreed to the plan.
• Hulk charged toward Thanos, while Thor mourned Loki and awakened powerful lightning abilities that restored his ability to fly.
• Thor attacked Thanos and briefly matched him, but his lightning could not penetrate Thanos's body, and Thanos threatened him while preparing to strike.
• Strange and his duplicates bound Thanos's right arm with Magic Light Whips and revealed that they were Sorcerers Supreme.
• Peter, concealed in his Second Generation Venom Suit beneath his Nano-Iron Suit, lunged at Thanos when Strange called to him.

Thor, Strange, Stark, Peter, and Hulk worked together to restrain Thanos and remove the Infinity Gauntlet. Peter took the Gauntlet, leaving Thanos subdued as Thor approached him to avenge Loki.

• Thor restrained Thanos's Gauntlet-wearing hand while Strange bound his other hand, and Peter attacked him.
• Thanos fought back fiercely, but Stark's Iron Man Armors joined the others and locked him inside a layered iron coffin.
• Thor used lightning to disrupt Thanos's connection to the Infinity Gauntlet while Strange and Hulk held him down.
• Peter pulled the Infinity Gauntlet off Thanos, leaving him too weakened to resist.
• Thor walked up to Thanos and said he would kill him to avenge Loki.