Chapter Summaries

Peter partnered with Bill Foster, who explained that his Quantum Tunnel research aimed to cure Ava’s molecular instability using Ghost Particles. Bill revealed that the Second Generation Venom Symbiote sample Peter had supplied showed 99.32% compatibility with Ava’s Ghost Particles, leaving Peter to realize Bill wanted more of it.

• Peter and Bill Foster confirmed their partnership, easing the tension in the underground laboratory.
• Bill Foster explained that Ava’s Quantum Sickness came from Ghost Particles that repeatedly damaged and repaired her molecular structure.
• Bill described how S.H.I.E.L.D. had promised to cure Ava but instead wanted to use her as a Ghost Agent, and Peter noted Hydra’s influence within the agency.
• Bill revealed that the Second Generation Venom Symbiote sample had Quantum Energy 99.32% compatible with Ava’s Ghost Particles.
• Peter realized Bill believed he had kept some of the symbiote and was asking him for more.

Peter investigated Ava's worsening condition and determined that foreign quantum particles from multiple universes were disrupting her body. He designed the Phantom Suit as a way to stabilize and control those particles, leaving Doctor Foster to judge whether the treatment plan was feasible.

• Peter refused to let Bill Foster take the Second Generation Venom Symbiote to his Los Angeles laboratory, and Bill revealed what he had concealed about it.
• Peter learned the symbiote's special energy was likely spacetime Quantum Energy, but kept his knowledge of traveling between Parallel Universes secret.
• Ava collapsed and began flickering between reality and an illusory state, prompting Peter to suspect her condition resembled the incompatibility phenomenon he had encountered before.
• Peter compared Doctor Foster's research on Ava with Lady Octopus's records and concluded that quantum particles from several Parallel Universes had entered Ava's body during her father's device explosion.
• Peter designed the Phantom Suit to use Ghost Particle storage units to restrain and regulate the foreign particles in Ava's body, then asked Doctor Foster whether the plan was feasible.

Doctor Foster confirmed that Peter’s Phantom Suit design could be built to collect Ghost Particles and help Ava, while Peter planned to adapt the technology into his own Phantom Spider Suit. With several hours before his flight to New York, Peter decided to look for Scott Lang.

• Doctor Foster studied Peter’s design and realized he could modify his Local Quantum collection device to build the Phantom Suit.
• Peter imagined adapting the suit’s principles for himself and named his version the Phantom Spider Suit.
• Doctor Foster agreed to develop the suit after Peter arranged five million in funding in exchange for its data and parameters.
• Peter left after dinner with Doctor Foster and Ava, then learned his flight to New York would not leave until after seven.
• Peter recalled Scott Lang and decided to seek out the second Ant-Man.

Peter traveled to Los Angeles to visit Scott Lang and study the Pym Particles. After receiving approval to visit Scott, he reached Scott’s house and left the baffled F.B.I. monitor to continue his game.

• Peter decided to visit Scott Lang, both as an old friend and to learn about Pym Particles, and found Scott’s address in the Avengers’ archives.
• Peter rode the subway in his Spider-Man suit, where teenagers George and Paige mistook him for a cosplayer and took a photo with him.
• Peter arrived at Scott’s house and noticed an F.B.I. agent monitoring the home from a black sedan.
• Peter showed the agent his approved visit application and identified himself as Spider-Man and an Avenger.
• Peter headed to Scott’s door after reversing the agent’s Gomoku game, leaving the agent astonished.

Peter visited Scott in Los Angeles, met his daughter Cassie, and later discovered that Hank Pym was spying on Scott. The chapter left Scott and Peter confronting evidence that Hank had been watching the house.

• Peter heard Scott and Cassie playing indoor bumper cars and joined them, accidentally breaking part of one handmade car.
• Peter revealed his teenage appearance to Scott and explained that he had come to visit and needed Scott's help with something.
• Cassie asked Peter to help end her father's troubles, and Peter reassured her that Scott was a superhero, not a bad person.
• After Cassie left with Scott's ex-wife, Peter and Scott began discussing Hank Pym and the Avengers.
• Peter webbed a large ant carrying a miniature camera and warned Scott that someone was watching him.

Peter asked Scott about the Quantum Realm and learned that Scott had entered it after shrinking below the subatomic level. Peter demonstrated that his soul could leave his body, suggesting his Dimensional Magic might draw on Quantum Energy from the Quantum Realm, and asked Scott to let him study Pym Particles.

• Peter used the surveillance ant to provoke Doctor Pym’s attention, while Scott angrily realized that the ant had been spying on him.
• Peter asked Scott about the Quantum Realm, and Scott revealed that he had entered it while destroying Darren’s Wasp Suit to protect Cassie.
• Scott recounted that he had seen Janet in the Quantum Realm and later learned from Doctor Pym what the strange world was.
• Peter projected his soul from his body, frightening Scott, then returned to his body and explained that he suspected his Dimensional Magic used Quantum Energy from the Quantum Realm.
• Peter asked Scott to let him examine Pym Particles for clues about the Quantum Realm.

Peter offered Scott a way to shorten his remaining prison sentence by joining the Avengers, but Doctor Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne arrived before they could discuss it further. Peter’s mention of the Quantum Realm drew Pym’s interest, and the chapter left them on the verge of discussing its secrets.

• Peter released the surveillance ant and suggested Scott could join the Avengers to cut short his remaining prison sentence.
• Doctor Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne arrived, and Hope explained that ants had distracted the people monitoring Scott’s home.
• Pym accused Peter of trying to obtain his research for the Stark family, but Peter insisted he was pursuing the Quantum Realm for himself.
• Peter started to leave, then piqued Pym’s curiosity by lamenting that he would have to investigate the Quantum Realm alone.
• Pym recalled that Scott had accidentally entered the Quantum Realm and seen Janet, and asked Peter what he found regrettable.

Peter and Doctor Pym exchanged information about the Quantum Realm, and Pym left with a new research idea. After failing to recruit Scott, Peter hired him to design security systems, then flew home as Spider-Man and glimpsed a vision of a purple-skinned giant attacking him and his companions with a falling asteroid.

• Peter told Doctor Pym about his Astral Projection, glowing spiderwebs, and experience with a quantum maelstrom, inspiring Pym to devise a way to confine particles in a miniature force field.
• Hope exchanged contact information with Peter, and Pym hurried away with her to pursue his research.
• Doctor Pym forbade Scott from joining the Avengers and threatened to take back his Ant-Man suit, ending Peter's attempt to recruit him.
• Peter hired Scott to design security systems for his company and home, then left for the airport in his Spider-Man suit.
• During the flight, Peter saw a vision of himself, Stark, Strange, and others facing a purple-skinned giant who dragged an asteroid down on them.

Peter warned Tony Stark and Doctor Strange about a precognitive dream in which countless massive meteors fell, threatening Earth. After reaching the Sanctum Sanctorum, he drew the people he had seen, and Strange questioned his drawing skills.

• Peter woke from a dream of enormous meteors raining down and feared the vision foretold a disaster on Earth.
• Peter contacted Friday, which relayed his warning to Tony Stark.
• Tony Stark promised to investigate the people connected to Peter’s dream and told him to seek out Strange.
• Peter rushed to the Sanctum Sanctorum and told Strange they might have a huge problem.
• Peter drew the figures from his dream, and Strange asked whether he had learned to draw in kindergarten.

Peter showed Strange drawings of figures from his precognitive dream, and Strange identified their leader as Thanos and explained the threat posed by the Black Order. Strange agreed to reveal what he knew about the coming war and asked Peter to bring Stark in.

• Peter drew the figures from his dream, and Strange recognized one as Thanos.
• Strange consulted a travel journal and told Peter that Thanos led the Black Order, whose Children of Thanos could rival or surpass Sorcerer Supremes.
• Strange explained that the Chitauri army from the 2012 Battle of New York had served Thanos, and that it was only one part of his forces.
• Peter inferred that Strange had seen the war in the future with the Time Stone and urged him to believe that the future could be changed.
• Strange agreed to tell Peter what he knew and asked him to bring Stark so they could prepare.

Strange brought Stark through a portal and showed him and Peter a holographic image of Thanos and the Black Order. He explained Ebony Maw’s link to the Undying Blade and began discussing how difficult it would be to destroy.

• Peter checked that no one was nearby, and Strange opened a portal for Stark to join them.
• Stark examined the portal and activated his new Mark50 nanotech armor when Strange plunged the study into darkness.
• Strange projected Thanos’s image and repeated what he had told Peter about him.
• Strange introduced Ebony Maw, explaining that his soul resided in the Undying Blade and that destroying the blade could defeat him.
• Strange said the Black Order’s weapons were forged from Uru Metal, and Stark asked how strong it was.

Strange explained the Black Order’s weapons and revealed that Wakanda had abundant vibranium, giving Stark hope of making armor strong enough to destroy Ebony Maw’s blade. He identified the Guardians of the Galaxy as allies, though Peter and Stark did not recognize them.

• Stark questioned Strange’s claim that Uru Metal surpassed Captain America’s shield, and Strange said he had seen Thanos cut the shield apart in the future.
• Strange revealed that a vibranium meteor had created Wakanda’s reserves, and proposed seeking Wakandan help to make weapons capable of destroying Ebony Maw’s Undying Blade.
• Strange described Cull Obsidian’s strength and simple mind, and Peter considered testing himself against him.
• Strange explained that Proxima Midnight wielded a supersonic Uru Metal spear and that Corvus Glaive was a powerful but physically fragile telepath.
• Peter asked about the unfamiliar figures Strange had shown, and Strange identified them as the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Stark and Peter learned about the Guardians of the Galaxy and Thanos’s plan, then discovered that Hulk and Thor were on Asgard during Ragnarok. Strange warned them not to interfere and explained that Hela, Odin’s daughter, had once helped him conquer countless civilizations.

• Strange explained that the Guardians of the Galaxy were a small team and that Thanos planned to gather all six Infinity Stones and destroy half the universe’s population.
• Stark asked Strange to locate Hulk or contact Asgard, and Strange said Hulk and Thor were there.
• Stark wanted to join Hulk and Thor against Thanos, but Strange said Ragnarok was unfolding on Asgard and the two had their own missions.
• Stark grew worried about Thor after hearing Ragnarok’s name, but Strange said this Ragnarok differed from Norse mythology and could not be stopped.
• Strange told Stark and Peter that Hela had caused Asgard’s Ragnarok and had once helped Odin conquer countless civilizations.

Peter, Stark, and Strange discussed Hela’s return and realized Thanos might target the weakened Asgardian refugees to obtain the Space Stone. Peter proposed confronting Thanos away from Earth, and the chapter ended with Stark agreeing to assemble the Avengers.

• Strange revealed that Odin was dead and explained that defeating Hela required destroying Asgard.
• Peter suggested that Thor would lead the surviving Asgardians to refuge in Norway after Asgard fell.
• Peter and Strange confirmed that Thanos sought the Infinity Stones, including the Space Stone in Asgard.
• Peter argued that Thanos might exploit the refugees’ weakness and proposed ambushing him beyond Earth.
• Strange agreed to discuss Peter’s plan, and Peter called for the Avengers to assemble again.

Stark and Strange prepared to gather the Avengers and former Avengers for a coming battle, while Peter made arrangements with his friends and Aunt May. Strange opened a portal to Scotland, where Vision and Wanda were hiding, and the group met them.

• Stark identified Wakanda as the likely base of the Secret Avengers and planned to recruit Hawkeye, Vision, Wanda, and Rhodey for the battle.
• Strange assigned Wong and the other sorcerers to protect the Sanctums while the group prepared to leave Earth.
• Peter explained the situation to Betty and Ned, then left Karen an email to send to Aunt May if he did not return.
• Strange opened a portal to Scotland and found Vision and Wanda living together in a furnished room.
• Strange recognized Wanda as a master of Chaos Magic and watched her warily.

Stark assembled allies and traveled with them to Wakanda to discuss a threat to the universe. After T'Challa welcomed the group inside, Peter introduced Doctor Strange and the others to Captain America.

• Strange, Vision, Wanda, Hawkeye, and Mimic Master gathered after Stark summoned them for an urgent operation.
• Stark and Strange stopped Peter from bringing Ant-Man, while Strange hinted Scott might offer them another chance if they failed.
• Peter, Stark, Strange, and the others reached Wakanda's concealed barrier and Stark called Captain America to open it.
• T'Challa and Captain America came to meet the group, and Stark told them the danger concerned the entire universe.
• Everyone boarded T'Challa's aircraft, and Peter introduced Doctor Strange and the others to Captain America.

Strange and Peter explained Thanos’s plan to gather the Infinity Stones and the threat he posed, prompting T’Challa to consider the danger to Wakanda. The group arrived in Birnin Zana and entered a conference room to exchange intelligence and plan their response.

• Strange explained Thanos, the Black Order, and the search for all six Infinity Stones, while Peter described the possibility that Thanos would eliminate half or all life in the universe.
• T’Challa grew concerned about the threat to Wakanda’s millions of people, and Nakia and Okoye reacted to the warning.
• Peter inspected Wakanda’s advanced concealment technology and the contrasting buildings of its capital, Birnin Zana, as the aircraft approached.
• T’Challa led Peter, Stark, and the others into a conference room to exchange intelligence and discuss what they should do.

T'Challa offered Wakanda's advanced equipment and assembled forces for the coming space battle against Thanos, while the heroes planned around the approaching destruction of Asgard. The chapter ended with the first- and second-tier fighters identified for the expedition, with preparations due within two days.

• T'Challa described Wakanda's Royal Talon Fighters and vibranium weapons, and rejected Stark's request to buy vibranium.
• Strange's intelligence placed Ragnarok about two days away and the attack on the Asgardian refugee ship within the following ninety days, so T'Challa summoned Wakanda's tribes to prepare nearly ten thousand warriors.
• The heroes listed the fighters available for the space battle and separated them into combat tiers.
• Stark argued that Peter belonged in the first tier because Venom Peter could fight intelligently and might be stronger than Hulk.
• Strange's account of Thanos and the Black Order led the group to assign the first-tier fighters to face them.

The chapter detailed the Chitauri Legion and Sakaaran mercenaries serving under Thanos, describing their abilities, equipment, and battlefield tactics. It left the second-echelon Wakandan warriors preparing to face these forces, with Captain America and his team advised to use infiltration and avoid the Chitauri’s massive units.

• Stark shared research on the Chitauri Legion, including its hive-mind network, enhanced soldiers, military divisions, and vulnerability to destruction of its mothership terminal.
• Stark warned Captain America and the others to avoid Chitauri Leviathans and remain alert for the powerful Chitauri Giant Apes.
• The chapter described the Sakaarans as insectoid natives of a garbage planet who became mercenaries after the Grandmaster established his arena.
• The Sakaaran mercenaries accepted long-term employment from Thanos, sought Infinity Stones, and used biological weapons and integrated equipment.

The heroes assessed the overwhelming forces they would face in the mission against Thanos and prepared specialized equipment with Wakanda’s help. Peter received Stark’s Nano Iron Spider Suit and replaced its original spider spears with Vibranium ones.

• Strange described the Dark Vanguard’s numbers, abilities, and landing pods, leaving the heroes worried that their expedition force was too small.
• Shuri concluded that the mission needed an elite force equipped with Vibranium gear, and T'Challa agreed to outfit the warriors.
• Wakanda distributed Vibranium armor, weapons, barriers, communications beads, and electromagnetic boots to the expedition members.
• Stark lent Peter a Nano Iron Spider Suit, and Wakanda gave him three Vibranium Spider Spears.
• Peter replaced the suit’s original spider spears with Wakanda’s Vibranium set, gaining a Nano Iron Spider Suit equipped with three Vibranium Spider Spears.