Chapter Summaries

Adrian Toomes robbed a Damage Control convoy for Chitauri Energy Stones, but Gwen confronted him and fought to stop him. Toomes struck the stones with an energy blade, causing a catastrophic explosion as Gwen tried to rescue the truck drivers.

• Adrian Toomes used his Mechanical Wings and Phase Emitters to enter a Damage Control transport container and steal a bag of Chitauri Energy Stones.
• Gwen intercepted Toomes, identified him as Vulture, and webbed the stolen stones to the container.
• Toomes defended his theft by blaming Stark Industries and Damage Control for ruining his salvage business, while Gwen condemned his weapons sales to criminals.
• Toomes attacked Gwen with an Energy Pistol and deliberately aimed an energy blade at the stones; Gwen rescued the first truck's driver and tried to reach the next one.
• The Chitauri Energy Stones exploded, engulfing Gwen's truck and sending the lead truck crashing into the woods.

Gwen survived Adrian Toomes’s explosion and confronted him as he tried to steal Chitauri Energy Stones. After hearing his grievances and thinking of her father, she let him go with a warning, while Adrian cut through her web to reach the truck.

• Phineas Mason warned Adrian Toomes that five Iron Legion robots were on their way, but Adrian refused to leave without the Chitauri Energy Stones.
• Gwen emerged unharmed from the explosion, protected by the Hell's Eight Spider Spears, and blocked Adrian’s access to the truck with a scarlet spiderweb.
• Adrian tried to persuade Gwen that Tony Stark’s power and wealth had driven him to crime, and Gwen hesitated as his words reminded her of her deceased father, George Stacy.
• Gwen warned Adrian not to sell high-tech weapons in New York again, then turned away, believing Peter had already sent his men to the police station.
• Adrian attacked the scarlet web with his Mechanical Wings, then fired purple energy blades from his Energy Pistol and cut through it.

Adrian Toomes stole the crate of Chitauri energy stones while Gwen was forced to fend off the Iron Legion and then escape. At Stark Tower, Happy Hogan saw footage identifying Spider-Woman as the convoy attacker and called Tony Stark, who threatened to fire him if he had no convincing reason for waking him.

• Adrian Toomes ignored Phineas Mason's warning, searched the trailer, and found the crate of Chitauri energy stones as five Iron Legion robots targeted Gwen.
• Gwen dodged the robots' attacks, webbed two of them to the ground, and escaped the remaining three by luring them into a built-up area where their weapons shut down.
• Adrian Toomes saw Gwen fleeing, then left with Phineas Mason and the stolen crate, unaware that Peter Parker had already taken down his hideout and delivered his crew to the Queens Police Department.
• Happy Hogan rushed to Stark Tower and watched Iron Legion footage that appeared to show Spider-Woman attacking the convoy.
• Happy Hogan called Tony Stark to report the incident, and Tony warned that Happy would be out as head of security unless he had a convincing reason for waking him.

Tony Stark reviewed footage of Spider-Woman immobilizing two Iron Legion drones during a hijacking and told Happy Hogan to follow standard investigative procedures. Days later, Adrian Toomes and his captured crew arrived at Ravencroft Prison, while Phineas Mason had been arrested after the crew betrayed him to the police.

• Happy Hogan told Tony Stark that a black-and-white-suited Spider-Woman had appeared during a hijacking of trucks carrying Chitauri scrap and had immobilized two Iron Legion drones.
• Tony Stark watched the footage and concluded Spider-Woman had not attacked the convoy, then told Happy Hogan to follow standard investigative procedures.
• Tony Stark ended the call after asking Happy Hogan to investigate a suspected corporate spy, and Happy called Pepper Potts instead.
• A few days later, Adrian Toomes and his subordinates arrived under police escort at Ravencroft Prison.
• Phineas Mason had been arrested after his frightened accomplices betrayed him and told the police what they knew.

After Adrian Toomes was arrested and sent to Ravencroft Prison, Eddie Brock arrived as the Void Knight and began spreading Knull’s Loyalist Symbiotes among the inmates. Adrian recognized the symbiote-covered figure outside his cell as the prison outbreak reached him.

• Adrian Toomes hid his Mechanical Wings and the Chitauri Energy Stones with Phineas Mason, then was arrested by Frank Castle’s officers while trying to leave New York with his family.
• The police transferred Adrian to Ravencroft Prison after charging him with endangering public safety, and he settled into a four-man cell expecting his lawyer to secure bail.
• A prison alarm woke Adrian, and he heard cries and strange buzzing sounds approach through the corridor.
• Eddie Brock, transformed into the Void Knight, tore open a gate and infected prisoners with Loyalist Symbiotes while ordering them to await his command underground.
• Eddie’s symbiote-possessed followers charged through the prison as he spread more symbiotes, then reached Adrian’s cell, where Adrian recognized his form from television coverage of Kong.

Eddie Brock used Loyalist Symbiotes to transform and control prisoners at Ravencroft, including Adrian Toomes, while preparing to free Lord Knull. Nearly five thousand inmates vanished, and Adrian escaped into the night before the disappearance sparked panic across New York City.

• Three prisoners sharing Adrian Toomes's cell transformed into Symbiote Warriors and broke out, then Eddie Brock bonded Adrian with a Loyalist Symbiote.
• Adrian resisted the symbiote's attack on his consciousness, but Eddie uncovered his identity as the Vulture and took control of him while revealing his plan to recover the Gene Code from Carl Mala for Lord Knull.
• Symbiote-possessed prisoners rampaged through Ravencroft, killing guards and other inmates as the prison was devastated.
• Soldiers and police found the prison emptied and confronted Adrian on a rooftop holding the warden's severed head, but he fled despite their gunfire.
• The Daily Bugle reported the mass disappearance the next morning, spreading fear throughout New York City.

Eddie Brock fooled Black Widow’s tests and kept his role in the Ravencroft Prison escape hidden while the missing prisoners waited under his control. After seeing Adrian Toomes on the news, Gwen regretted letting him go and sought Captain Frank Castle’s help, but he warned her to stay out of the hunt.

• The Daily Bugle exposed the Ravencroft Prison escape, prompting New York police to search openly for the missing prisoners and Adrian Toomes.
• Eddie Brock watched the news, boasted about his plans for a symbiote army, and was taken by Black Widow to meet Nick Fury after she tested him with sonic devices.
• Gwen saw Adrian Toomes’s wanted sketch and blamed herself for having let him go.
• Peter Parker sent Gwen a message of comfort, but she put on her Spider-Woman suit and went to find Captain Frank Castle.
• Gwen asked Captain Frank Castle for details about Ravencroft Prison and Adrian Toomes, but he warned her not to get involved.

Gwen learned that Adrian Toomes escaped Ravencroft Prison wearing a Symbiote Suit, while a bloody spiral rune and the sentence “The gods are coming” were found inside. As reports linked the same clues to Misty Knight’s investigation, Nick Fury ordered a search for Toomes and took steps to monitor his family, while S.H.I.E.L.D.’s symbiote replication experiments stalled.

• Gwen told Sheriff Frank Castle what had happened and learned that Adrian Toomes had escaped Ravencroft Prison wearing a Symbiote Suit, leaving behind a red spiral rune and the sentence “The gods are coming.”
• A staff member told Sheriff Frank Castle that Misty Knight had found the same rune and sentence in Paterson City and could no longer be reached, so he set out to locate and support her.
• Black Widow told Nick Fury that Eddie Brock showed no signs of harboring a symbiote and that she had located Tinkerer, Adrian Toomes’s former associate.
• Nick Fury ordered Talos to replace Adrian Toomes’s daughter and monitor his family so S.H.I.E.L.D. could find Toomes before the police.
• The Symbiote Biological-State Research Laboratory reported to Nick Fury that none of its twelve Alien Symbiotes could produce child symbiotes and that every replication experiment had failed.

Nick Fury suspended S.H.I.E.L.D.’s symbiote-splitting experiments after a failure threatened his Titan Jaeger plans, unaware that Knull had locked the captured symbiotes’ abilities. Black Widow found Phineas Mason’s abandoned hideout, but Selene had already taken him to Sokovia, where she delivered him and his Chitauri technology to Dr. Samuel Sterns at Warp Group headquarters.

• Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to suspend its symbiote-splitting experiments until it captured more symbiotes.
• Black Widow searched Phineas Mason’s hideout and concluded that someone had forced him to leave within the past two days.
• Selene brought Phineas Mason to Sokovia, where he was astonished by the prosperous city.
• Selene took Phineas Mason’s weapons, Mechanical Wings, and remaining Chitauri energy stones to Warp Group headquarters.
• Selene introduced Phineas Mason, the engineer who had developed the Phase Emitters, to Dr. Samuel Sterns.

Samuel Stern recruited Phineas Mason into the [Warp Group] and learned that [Super Serum: Phase One] had been successfully created. Carl agreed to test it, and the injection unleashed a tremendous surge of energy as the serum began taking effect.

• Selene escorted Phineas Mason and the weapons shipment to Samuel Stern, who dismissed most of Mason's inventions but praised the [Phase Transfer Device].
• Samuel Stern pressured Phineas Mason into joining the [Warp Group] and warned him against disobeying or doubting Boss.
• Rebecca Chambers told Samuel Stern that the [Super Serum: Phase One] sample was ready, and he rushed with her to inspect it.
• Samuel Stern explained to Carl that the serum had been divided into three phases to make development easier, and Carl approved the plan and agreed to test the first phase.
• Samuel Stern injected the golden serum into Carl, triggering a powerful surge of energy that illuminated and shook the office.

Carl received Super Serum: Phase One, which greatly enhanced his physical abilities and began awakening the Extraordinary Factors in his body. After tests confirmed the effects surpassed Samuel Stern's expectations, Carl agreed to continue with Phase Two and Phase Three in the future.

• Samuel Stern and Rebecca Chambers monitored Carl as Super Serum: Phase One merged with his body and awakened some of the Extraordinary Factors.
• Carl's body transformed, his strength and other physical functions increased, and the serum reached full integration.
• Carl told Samuel Stern that his abilities had improved tremendously and that the Extraordinary Factors were beginning to awaken.
• Carl followed Samuel Stern and Rebecca Chambers to the laboratory for several hours of examinations.
• Samuel Stern examined the results and discovered that Carl had awakened Extraordinary Factors during Phase One, earlier than expected.

Carl reviewed the success of his serum test, expanded Warp with his Prestige Points, and considered how to exploit Knull’s approach to Earth. Meanwhile, Sheriff Frank Castle reached an abandoned town while searching for the missing Misty Knight.

• Carl praised Samuel Stern’s research and authorized him to advance the second phase of the serum project, prompting Samuel Stern and Rebecca Chambers to push the laboratory staff to work overtime.
• Carl met with The Five, reviewed their plans, and distributed rewards after the Eye of Terror earned nearly 300 million Prestige Points.
• Carl spent 400 million Prestige Points expanding Warp’s public areas and planned to use the Space Stone to let the Eye of Terror consume much of the Nine Realms.
• Carl considered using Knull and the Symbiotes to create suits for the Thunder Warrior Legion, while Selene approached him again.
• Sheriff Frank Castle followed Misty Knight’s phone signal to an abandoned town near Paterson City and wondered why she had gone there.

Sheriff Frank Castle rescued Agent Misty Knight from a cross in an abandoned town and learned that cultists had killed her informant Eric and offered his brain and spine to a monster. Misty recounted how she and Eric had uncovered a string of headless corpses whose spines had been violently removed, leaving the mystery unresolved.

• Sheriff Frank Castle found Misty Knight bound and barely alive, freed her, treated her wounds, and covered her with his jacket.
• After recovering, Misty warned Frank that cultists had killed Eric and sacrificed his brain and spine to a monster, then explained what had happened over the previous two days.
• Misty recalled meeting former sheriff Eric in Paterson City, where he led her to a hospital morgue and showed her several headless bodies.
• Misty recognized one corpse as the suspect she had been tracking and found that the victims had similar skull tattoos and missing spines.
• Eric told Misty that the victims were mostly vulnerable people whose deaths had been ignored by the police, prompting him to resign as sheriff.

Misty Knight and Eric investigated a string of killings involving missing human and animal spines and suspected the Dark Church was behind them. After its founder, Dihal, refused to let them inspect the church, Misty Knight bluffed that a search warrant was coming and went to watch the church that night, hoping to draw the culprits out.

• Eric told Misty Knight that hunters had found wild animals with their heads eaten and spines removed, and said he suspected the Dark Church was responsible for the killings.
• Misty Knight and Eric went to the church, where guards initially barred them from entering but brought them to meet its founder, Dihal.
• Dihal refused Misty Knight's request to inspect the church and identified its blood-red spiral emblem as the symbol of the god Knull.
• Misty Knight accused Dihal and her congregation of being linked to the strange cases, then threatened to obtain a search warrant as she left.
• Misty Knight told Eric she had bluffed to provoke the suspects and checked into a nearby hotel to watch for developments.
• After midnight, Misty Knight woke, armed herself, and quietly headed toward the church.

Misty Knight broke into the Dark Church’s cathedral to save Eric and discovered Dihal leading a sacrificial ritual for Knull. Dihal’s web-shooting ally trapped Misty, and the chapter ended as Dihal approached Eric after declaring that the god was coming.

• Misty Knight crept to the cathedral and recognized Eric’s cries for help inside.
• Misty Knight burst through the doors and found cultists flaying Eric’s chest as part of a ritual.
• Misty Knight aimed her revolver at the cultists, but they ignored her warning and Dihal revealed herself.
• A tall, hooded figure shot a black web that pinned Misty Knight to the wall, and Dihal explained the ritual’s purpose.
• Dihal rallied the cultists by proclaiming that Knull would come to Earth through the Void Knight and grant them power.
• Dihal approached the terrified Eric and offered to free him from his suffering.

Yu Hong revealed himself as Yan Wei’s Mentor and confronted the Inro, using his power to make them attack one another and drain the life from them. He took the prince toward the mothership, where a battle erupted, while Yan Wei hurried to follow.

• Yu Hong revealed his identity to Yan Wei, then left the factory and met five Inro led by the prince.
• Yu Hong scanned the nearby motherships, learned that 71,452 Inro were on Flame Star, and demanded their life armor.
• One Inro attacked Yu Hong, but Yu Hong’s power turned the group against each other and drained four soldiers of their vitality.
• Yu Hong spared the prince and ordered him to lead the way to the mothership; Yan Wei rushed toward another base to pursue them.
• As Yu Hong and the prince approached the mothership above Linglong, the Inro flying out to meet them began attacking one another, and Yu Hong absorbed their vitality.

Misty Knight, controlled by the Loyalist Symbiotes, captured Sheriff Frank Castle as attacks by Symbiote Warriors terrorized New York. Peter Parker rescued a mother and her children in Hell’s Kitchen, then discovered an escaped Ravencroft inmate seemed to become active only when the symbiote covered him again.

• The Loyalist Symbiotes took control of Misty Knight, who knocked out Sheriff Frank Castle, wrecked their car, and carried him toward Paterson City.
• As gruesome killings spread across New York, the police suspected Adrian Toomes but could not find him.
• A Symbiote Warrior attacked a family in Hell’s Kitchen, killing the father and chasing the mother and her two children.
• Peter Parker, transformed into Lizard-Man, hurled the Symbiote Warrior away and urged the mother to flee with her children.
• Peter Parker struck the attacker’s symbiote aside and questioned the exposed Ravencroft inmate, who stood blankly until the tendrils covered him again.

Peter Parker and Spider-Gwen captured a Symbiote Warrior in Hell’s Kitchen and suspected that the missing Ravencroft Prison inmates had all been transformed. They brought the prisoner to Harry Osborn’s laboratory, where Peter used infrasound to wake him and weaken the symbiote.

• Peter defeated a Symbiote Warrior, but nearly a hundred more emerged from a sewer before he could take the unconscious prisoner away.
• Spider-Gwen arrived and helped hold back the swarm with scarlet webs as Peter theorized that the warriors were escaped Ravencroft Prison inmates.
• Peter and Gwen agreed to take the prisoner to Harry Osborn’s laboratory and leave the remaining warriors for the approaching police.
• At Osborn Tower, Peter told Harry that the missing prisoners might have become Symbiote Warriors and that the attacks across New York could be connected.
• Peter secured the prisoner in an isolation chamber and activated infrasound, waking him and causing the Loyalist Symbiote to howl in pain.

Peter Parker, Gwen, and Harry Osborn discovered that a powerful signal beacon was controlling the Ravencroft prisoners through their Symbiotes and planned to seek Warp Group’s help. Far beneath New York, thousands of controlled symbiote soldiers continued feeding psychic energy into a gigantic tree of flesh and blood.

• Peter Parker found a sound-wave threshold that kept the Symbiote attached while calming it, then detected abnormal psychic energy controlling the prisoner’s consciousness.
• Gwen suspected someone had linked the Symbiote-controlled prisoners into a hive mind, and Peter discovered a powerful signal source acting as a beacon.
• Harry Osborn urged the group to stop the conspiracy, while Gwen ruled out asking Homelander because he might kill the prisoners, who were victims of the control.
• Gwen, Peter Parker, and Harry Osborn agreed to request support from Warp Group while Peter and Harry built a tracker to locate the beacon.
• Thousands of controlled symbiote soldiers entered hollows in a gigantic flesh-and-blood tree beneath New York and released psychic energy.

Eddie Brock ordered Carnage to draw attention away from his plan to connect with Klyntar, while Frank Castle was brought before the Dark Church’s ritual. Dihal revealed that Frank was not the intended sacrifice and pointed to a willing believer instead.

• Eddie Brock explained that the Psychic Beacon Tree would use symbiote warriors’ psychic energy to establish a connection with Klyntar and Lord Knull.
• Eddie Brock threatened Carnage, reminding him that he could reclaim his symbiote, then ordered him to cause a commotion; Carnage agreed and said he would first rescue Frances from the asylum.
• Misty Knight took Frank Castle from his cell beneath the Dark Church and admitted that Lord Knull’s commands controlled her mind.
• Frank Castle was brought to the church’s ritual, where Dihal explained that the sacrifice was an expression of loyalty rather than a way to summon demons.
• Dihal told Frank that he was not the night’s sacrifice and pointed to a tall believer who had willingly offered her life.