Chapter Summaries

Peter reached the Symbiote Hive, found nearly ten thousand controlled hosts gathered around it, and abandoned the plan to destroy it with high-frequency weapons. He met Super Spider-Man and set a new plan in motion, leaving Super Spider-Man drawing the Hive’s forces into a passage.

• Peter examined the Symbiote Hive from every side and reported its size and the crowd of hosts to Tiger King.
• Peter and Tiger King agreed they could not use high-frequency weapons without risking the lives of the people near the Hive.
• Peter entered an Astral Projection state and formed a controllable symbiote body from the Second Generation Venom Symbiote.
• Peter introduced himself to Super Spider-Man as Peter Parker from a Parallel Universe, and the two embraced and agreed to cooperate.
• Super Spider-Man attacked the Hive, revealed himself, and led its pursuing hosts into a passage.

Peter and Super Spider-Man repeatedly lured Symbiote Hosts away from the Hive, allowing Peter to drain their biomass and weaken the Hive’s defenses. Peter then entered the Hive in astral form, claimed the Black Death Sword, and left the Hive afraid to approach him.

• Peter and Super Spider-Man lured groups of Symbiote Hosts away from the Hive and drained the Hive offspring from them, eliminating nearly a thousand Hosts and replenishing Peter’s biomass.
• Super Spider-Man stayed near the perimeter to await Tiger King’s rescue operation as the Mechanical Guards and human resistance began rescuing the underground survivors.
• Peter retracted his symbiote body, entered Astral Projection, and slipped through the isolation zone surrounding the Symbiote Hive.
• Peter followed the pull of Second Generation Venom to a small black sword deep within the Hive.
• Peter took the sword into his soul before the Hive could consume him, and learned that it was the Black Death Sword, the ancient symbiote created by Knull.

Peter fused Second Generation Venom with the Black Death Sword to create Venom Blade, then used his new suit to tear through the Symbiote Hive and pursue its mobile core. Outside the hive, Tiger King’s Mechanical Guards surrounded and restrained the symbiote hosts with sonic weapons.

• Peter named the fusion of Second Generation Venom and the Black Death Sword Venom Blade.
• The Symbiote Hive attacked Peter, who transformed into the Venom Blade Suit and discovered that his sword could cut through the hive and absorb its energy.
• Peter used his Spider-Sense Radar to locate the hive’s core, but the core moved away before he reached it.
• Peter tracked the mobile core as he continued hunting through the Symbiote Hive.
• Tiger King led the Mechanical Guards underground, where their sonic weapons helped them surround and restrain the symbiote hosts.

Peter returned from the alternate world after absorbing the Symbiote Hive core, then considered how to develop a nano-robot suit and arranged to examine his new Venom Blade Symbiote safely. He left for Avengers headquarters through a portal opened by Strange.

• Peter absorbed the Symbiote Hive core with the Venom Blade as the collapsing hive began to churn, then returned to his own universe.
• After Peter left, Super Spider-Man, the human resistance army, and the Knights of Wundagore defeated the symbiote outbreak, and Tiger King and the resistance formed a new government on Planet Kont.
• Peter considered how Super Spider-Man's Nano Suit used microscopic robots and decided to seek advice from Doctor Banner.
• Peter called Friday to arrange a sealed chamber with powerful sound-wave equipment and strong defenses before testing his Venom Blade Symbiote.
• Peter went to the Sanctum Sanctorum and persuaded Strange to open a portal to Avengers headquarters, promising Aunt May's grilled meat patties without onions.

Peter tested the Venom Blade Suit in Avengers Headquarters’ sonic weapon laboratory and discovered it boosted his strength far beyond his previous suit. The suit’s Black Death Sword stirred violent urges, but Peter concluded that the Second Generation Venom remained in control.

• Peter joked with Friday about her relationship to Karen before asking it to open Laboratory Three.
• Peter put on the Venom Blade Suit and sensed its effects.
• Peter found that the suit increased his strength from roughly sixty-seven tons to six hundred and seventy tons.
• Peter felt a desire for destruction and slaughter rise from the Black Death Sword.
• Peter reasoned that the Second Generation Venom had absorbed the weakened Black Death Sword and remained dominant, easing his concerns.

Peter suppressed the Poison Blade Suit’s violent urges by filling the sonic laboratory with fast-moving comedy and videos, then demonstrated the suit’s strength by smashing through a reinforced wall. He told Stark that Venom had evolved into a new suit, and Stark ended their conversation by teasing him.

• Peter asked Friday to play relaxing music and comedy to distract him from the Poison Blade Suit’s negative emotions.
• Friday filled the laboratory wall with multiple videos and sounds, which helped Peter suppress his violent urges.
• Peter punched through the reinforced wall, briefly fracturing his hand before it healed.
• Peter told Stark that Venom had transformed into the Poison Blade Suit, and Stark teased him about metamorphosis and development.

Peter visited Asgard Village after failing to make progress on the nanobot suit and found Hulk living peacefully among Asgardian children. As Vidar described his sand forest and hoped to become its guardian, Peter sensed faint energy coming from the boy.

• After several days of unsuccessful research, Peter trained Nova and assigned him tasks to complete while he was away.
• Peter used Strange's portal to reach a beach far from Asgard Village's castle and decided to walk there.
• Peter found Hulk helping children build sand structures and joined them, calling Hulk Doctor Hulk.
• Vidar told Peter he was creating Asgard's Eternal Forest, destroyed in a sea of fire, and hoped to become its Guardian Spirit.
• Peter noticed faint energy fluctuations coming from Vidar.

Peter considered the fleeting energy fluctuation he sensed from Vidar, then walked with Professor Hulk and learned about quantum computing. The explanation gave Peter a plan to make his Nano Suit’s particles into a quantum computer system secured and controlled by his DNA, Vocal Print, and Spider-Sense, with an AI assistant built in.

• Peter suspected Vidar had an Asgardian power that had not yet awakened, but chose not to interfere.
• Peter watched Vidar make sand sculptures with the children before Professor Hulk invited him to talk while they walked.
• Peter noticed that Professor Hulk lived in the village below the castle and that the villagers welcomed him warmly.
• Professor Hulk explained quantum computers, quantum coherence, decoherence, and quantum encoding schemes to Peter.
• Peter realized he could make the Nano Suit’s nanoparticles components of a quantum computer, using his DNA, Vocal Print, and Spider-Sense as security and control codes.
• Peter decided the system could also support an AI assistant and recalled Shuri’s method of programming Vision’s individual micro-neurons.

Peter studied nanobot suits with Princess Shuri’s help while keeping a careful distance from her romantic interest. Meanwhile, Thor, Star-Lord, and Groot left Nidavellir to recruit cosmic scavengers for a campaign against Ego, beginning with Starhawk.

• Peter visited Wakanda and learned from Princess Shuri as they worked on incorporating a Quantum Computer into his nanobots.
• Peter subtly rejected Princess Shuri’s advances, and she accepted his distance while continuing to help him.
• Thor obtained Stormbreaker from King Eitri, who also upgraded Star-Lord’s pistol; Star-Lord named it Kara.
• Groot grew into his teenage form after several months on Nidavellir.
• Star-Lord convinced Thor to help gather a scavenger alliance to fight Ego, and the group set out to recruit Starhawk.

Thor and Star-Lord found the Starhawk Corps destroyed on Arcturus, then discovered a message claiming Gamora and the others were alive and held at Ego. Star-Lord set course for Ego despite Thor’s warning that the message was a trap.

• During their journey, Star-Lord told Thor about Starhawk and the Starhawk Corps while venting his grief over Gamora, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, and Yondu.
• Star-Lord and Thor arrived near Arcturus and saw three destroyed Starhawk Corps battleships floating in space.
• Star-Lord searched one of the battleships and returned with a recording that said Peter Quill could save his friends by going to Ego.
• Thor replayed the message and warned that its sender was luring the Earth friends to Ego.
• Star-Lord insisted that Gamora, the raccoon, and Drax were alive and began steering the spacecraft toward Ego Planet.

Nova suspected that the injured person he had seen change form was an alien, so he followed the ambulance to a hospital to investigate. The Xandarians exposed him, ambushed him with energy weapons, and left him helpless on the ground.

• Nova noticed that the hit-and-run victim briefly appeared to transform into another kind of person and wondered if he was an alien.
• Nova used his Nova Force to follow the ambulance and watched it take the victim to a distant hospital building instead of the emergency room.
• The Xandarians recognized Nova and decided to kill him and take his form before their plan was exposed.
• Nova entered the empty hospital building to investigate and was struck by a surprise energy blast.
• The Xandarians fired their energy pistols at Nova, leaving him dizzy and unable to move.

Nova recognized the Skrulls who had captured him and learned they had been planning something on Earth for decades. As the Skrulls tried to take him away, Nova's Nova Force erupted, and he slammed their minor leader into a wall.

• A Skrull revealed his true form and ordered his companions to take Nova with them after they worried the Nova Corps might have discovered their plans.
• Nova's supercomputer identified the Skrulls and recalled their history of infiltration, their shapeshifting abilities, and their near-extinction at the hands of the Kree Empire.
• Nova resolved to warn Teacher Parker, but a Skrull mocked him, claiming the building blocked his signal and that they could impersonate him.
• The Skrulls struck Nova unconscious and began carrying him away, but his helmet started glowing and Nova Force surged from his body.
• Nova blasted several Skrulls aside, then charged into the minor leader and smashed him against a wall.

Peter investigated the Skrulls who had attacked Richard Rider and suspected they had infiltrated powerful organizations on Earth. He left Richard unconscious but stable, with the possibility of high-ranking Skrull infiltrators in S.H.I.E.L.D. or the military now looming.

• Peter, Stark, Antonia, and Colonel Rhodey examined a Skrull corpse and reviewed how Nova had killed the aliens after they attacked him.
• Antonia found no leads in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s records, while Peter and Stark concluded the Skrulls had likely been on Earth for a long time.
• Colonel Rhodey proposed investigating Richard as a possible threat, but Peter defended Richard and promised to uncover the truth.
• Peter checked on Richard and confirmed that the alien weapon had left him unconscious but not in danger of dying.
• Peter reasoned that the Skrulls could have erased all traces only if they had infiltrators in S.H.I.E.L.D. or the American military, possibly in high-ranking positions.

Richard discovered that Worldmind and the Nova Force had fused with him after the destruction of Xandar and the Nova Corps, and learned that Worldmind had taken control of his body to kill the Skrulls. Worldmind told him he could not wake for over three days unless he actively accepted the Nova Force, so Richard agreed to try speeding up the fusion.

• Richard found himself in Nova Space and learned that Worldmind had transferred the Nova Corps’ stored consciousnesses and Nova Force into his body.
• Worldmind explained that it had controlled Richard and killed the Skrulls after their attack left his primary consciousness unconscious.
• Richard objected to Worldmind controlling his body and insisted that rebuilding the Nova Corps could not take priority over his survival.
• Worldmind told Richard he was at the Avengers base beside Peter Parker and that the Skrulls were dead.
• Richard learned that he could accelerate his awakening by actively accepting the Nova Force, and agreed to do so.

Peter entered Richard’s Nova Space in astral form and learned that the Skrulls had infiltrated Earth and planned to take it over. He agreed to let Worldmind recruit suitable people to rebuild the Nova Corps in exchange for the large Anti-Skrull Device, while warning it not to force anyone.

• Peter discovered that he could fire Web Energy webbing in astral form and used it to enter the anomaly on Richard’s body.
• Peter found Richard in Nova Space, where he was receiving an inheritance of power, and learned why he had been unconscious.
• Richard told Peter about the Skrulls, their attack, and their plan to infiltrate and occupy Earth.
• Peter asked Richard whether Xandar had devices to identify Skrulls, and Richard consulted Worldmind about a large Anti-Skrull Device.
• Richard learned that Worldmind would provide the device only if Earth allowed it to select recruits for a new Nova Corps, and Peter agreed while warning Worldmind not to coerce anyone.

Peter obtained and built mini anti-Skrull devices, then used them to search the Avengers base. After detecting several possible infiltrators, he confronted Tony Stark and left the gym with him, having concluded who the Skrull was.

• Peter waited for Richard to complete the Nova Force's trial, then took the blueprints for a mini anti-Skrull device to his laboratory.
• Peter built several devices, fitted one to his transformation watch, and returned to the Avengers base with Richard.
• Peter and Richard found four Skrulls among the base personnel, and Peter's device alarmed again outside the gym where Tony Stark was working out.
• Peter entered the gym and found Stark with Colonel Rhodey; Rhodey's reaction made Peter suspect him.
• Peter asked Stark about his suit, then left the gym with him and reached a conclusion about the Skrull's identity.

Peter left Stark to deal with the Skrulls and returned home with Richard, planning to protect Aunt May and his friends after learning that his identity had been exposed. He invited Machine Strange and Nova to dinner, and Aunt May arrived as Peter waited for a chance to reveal the truth to her.

• Peter gave Stark a mini anti-Skrull device and information, and Stark insisted on handling the Skrull investigation alone.
• Peter took Richard home and decided to reveal his identity to Aunt May and leave protective measures for her, Betty, Ned, and the others.
• Peter asked Machine Strange to open a portal and join him and Nova for dinner, then teased Strange while they prepared the meal.
• Peter's Italian-style meat patties tasted terrible, so Strange and Nova made him stop cooking and wait in the living room.
• Aunt May came home, recognized Nova, and showed only mild surprise at meeting Strange.

Peter nervously prepared to tell Aunt May that he was Spider-Man, considering how other Spider-Men’s aunts had reacted. Aunt May revealed she had already figured it out and calmly explained the clues she had noticed.

• Peter worried about Aunt May’s possible reaction to learning he was Spider-Man and recalled how other versions of Aunt May had responded.
• After thinking through the possibilities, Peter decided to tell Aunt May and walked into the kitchen while Strange and Richard watched.
• Aunt May interrupted Peter and said she knew he was Spider-Man.
• Aunt May listed clues including Peter sneaking out, his connection to Tony Stark and the Avengers, and a baby onesie she had seen on Twitter.

Peter told Aunt May the truth about being Spider-Man, and she accepted and supported him while warning him to remember his responsibilities. Days later, his Spider-Sense detected distress signals from five Spider-Men across four worlds, including a signal from Blonde Spider-Man, whom Peter thought had died.

• Aunt May explained that Peter had revealed himself through the many things he had done, and Peter introduced her to Richard and Strange.
• Peter told Aunt May about his company and his other activities, and she reminded him that great power brought great responsibility.
• Peter promised to remain everyone's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, and Aunt May welcomed Richard into her home.
• Feeling supported by Aunt May, Peter became noticeably cheerful, and Spider-Man's fans and news outlets embraced his happy image.
• Several days later, Peter's Spider-Sense alerted him to distress signals from Shadow Spider-Man, Blonde Spider-Man, Black Spider, Amazing Spider-Man-B, and Spider-Gwen.
• Peter realized Blonde Spider-Man's signal came from earth-1610B alongside Miles Morales's, and wondered whether Blonde Spider-Man had returned to life.

Peter investigated Blonde Spider-Man’s distress signal and discovered that his body was being sustained by Quantum Energy from Kingpin’s Super Particle Collider. He found fragments of Blonde Spider-Man’s soul inside him, with the largest fragment taking human shape and possibly sending the signal.

• Peter considered the changed universe designations and concluded that the Spider-Men marked with a B came from similar parallel universes.
• Peter chose to possess Blonde Spider-Man to learn whether he had been resurrected and how he had sent a distress signal.
• Peter woke in darkness inside Blonde Spider-Man’s body and found it filled with Quantum Energy from Kingpin’s Super Particle Collider.
• Peter scanned the body, entered Blonde Spider-Man’s soul, and discovered fragments of it, including a large fragment forming a human outline.