Chapter Summaries

Frank Castle rejected Dihal’s offer to join the Dark Church and escaped into the sewers, where he found a working phone and prayed for enough signal to call for help. Meanwhile, Peter Parker and Harry Osborn waited to learn whether the Warp Group would assist them, while Gwen said its specialist had not yet arrived.

• Dihal revealed that the Dark Church had intended to capture whichever officer came to rescue Misty Knight, but Frank Castle refused to join or worship Knull.
• Dihal ordered Misty Knight to return Frank Castle to his cell, but Frank kicked her aside and escaped through a floor grate into the drainage system.
• Dihal transformed with a symbiote and ordered Misty Knight to recapture Frank Castle before Lord Void Knight arrived.
• Frank Castle reached a main drainage channel, found mutilated bodies, and discovered a phone with one bar of battery and no screen lock.
• Peter Parker asked Gwen whether the Warp Group would help their operation, and Gwen said the group would send a specialist to assess the crisis before deciding.

Gwen received an urgent call from Chief Frank Castle, who revealed that cultists serving Knull had created Symbiote Warriors in Paterson City and left him trapped beneath the Dark Church. Before Gwen could rush to his rescue, Warp Group crisis assessors Logan, X-23, and Polaris arrived by portal, and Logan recognized Gwen’s identity, leaving her startled.

• Harry Osborn and Peter Parker discussed the Warp Group’s request for their coordinates while Gwen received a call from Chief Frank Castle.
• Frank told Gwen he had been attacked by Knull’s cultists in Paterson City and that one of his officers had become a Symbiote Warrior.
• Frank warned Gwen not to come alone, then the call cut off after a beastlike roar interrupted him.
• Gwen, Peter, and Harry reasoned that the Symbiote Warriors might have been divided among multiple areas to distract the police, and Gwen prepared to rescue Frank.
• Logan, X-23, and Polaris arrived at Osborn Tower through a portal using the Warp Group’s Teleportation Gun.
• Logan introduced himself as the crisis assessor, signed Harry’s autograph request, and identified Gwen as Spider-Woman, prompting her to question how he knew her real identity.

Gwen asked Logan and his team to help investigate a crisis in Paterson City while they searched for the Symbiote Warriors’ beacon. Logan received approval, and Peter, Gwen, Logan, and Polaris traveled through a portal, leaving Harry behind to build the signal transmitter.

• Logan revealed that the Warp Group had identified Gwen, while Laura and Polaris joined him in the laboratory.
• Gwen admitted that she and her friends had not located the beacon and told Logan about a new crisis in Paterson City.
• Logan called Zemo, received approval to help, and agreed to travel with Gwen’s group.
• Peter traced Uncle Frank’s call to precise coordinates, and Polaris opened a portal to Paterson City.
• Peter transformed into his Lizard form, restrained Harry, and rushed through the portal with Gwen and the others.
• After the portal closed, Harry vowed to become a superhero using Oscorp’s physical enhancement serum and began considering a hero name.

Gwen and Peter searched the sewers for Sheriff Frank Castle while Logan taught X-23 to control her sense of smell. They found a Symbiote Warrior nest in the Pressure Regulation Tank Room, where the growing enemy numbers left the fight unresolved.

• Logan taught X-23 a breathing method to filter out the sewer stench while Polaris warned Gwen that her team would be evaluated rather than rescued outright.
• Peter found a phone with a recent call from Gwen, and Logan tracked signs of Frank Castle through the sewer tunnels.
• Logan and X-23 heard human voices in a passage, and Gwen and Peter rushed ahead without waiting for his warning about an enemy nest.
• Gwen and Peter fought more than a dozen Symbiote Warriors in the Pressure Regulation Tank Room, with Peter knocking out the foes before him.
• More Symbiote Warriors with spiral markings poured into the chamber from connecting drains and began surrounding the group.

Gwen, Peter Parker, Logan, X-23, and [Polaris] fought their way through the Symbiote Warriors and continued after Frank Castle. As Misty Knight’s control wavered, Frank held onto hope that his friends would reach him before she could hurt him again.

• Over a hundred Symbiote Warriors surrounded Gwen, Peter Parker, Logan, X-23, and [Polaris] as they tried to reach Frank Castle.
• [Polaris] used ultrasound from her smartwatch to incapacitate the Symbiote Warriors, and X-23 captured nearly a hundred fleeing [symbiotes] with the [Symbiote Capture Device].
• Logan praised X-23, and the five continued deeper into the passage to find Frank Castle.
• Misty Knight carried Frank Castle through a drainage pipe alongside a symbiote hound while Frank tried to remind her that she still had control over herself.
• Misty Knight briefly resisted the [Loyalist Symbiotes] before throwing Frank against a wall, but Frank smiled hopefully as he heard the fighting behind them.

Gwen and Peter rescued Frank Castle and uncovered the Dark Church’s plan to bring Knull to Earth, but the police found the church abandoned. The chapter ended with Eddie Brock, revealed as the Void Knight, furious at Dihal for the failed operation and the loss of over a hundred symbiotes.

• Gwen arrived in time to save Frank Castle from Misty Knight, and Peter accidentally exposed Gwen’s identity as Spider-Woman.
• Gwen defeated the symbiote-controlled Misty, and Polaris used a teleportation gun to bring the group back to Osborn Tower.
• Peter removed the symbiote from Misty, who revealed that Dihal and high-society members served the Void Knight and planned to prepare Earth for Knull’s arrival.
• Frank Castle returned with search warrants and police officers, but Dihal and the other cultists had already fled the church.
• Gwen and Peter vowed to stop the Dark Church, while Eddie Brock confronted Dihal underground and blamed her for losing over a hundred symbiotes and nearly exposing his plan.

Eddie Brock spared Dihal and ordered her to identify who helped Spider-Woman, while he planned to lie low and manage the risks posed by his symbiote forces. Meanwhile, Cletus Kasady escaped and drove to Saint Quentin Psychiatric Hospital to rescue Frances Barrison, who remained convinced her boyfriend might come for her.

• Eddie Brock released Dihal but threatened her and ordered her to find out who had helped Spider-Woman.
• Eddie Brock decided to keep the Dark Church out of sight while the police investigated and worried about the symbiote warriors’ need to eat human brains.
• Cletus Kasady stole a sports car and headed for Saint Quentin Psychiatric Hospital with Carnage, planning to free Frances Barrison and later challenge the Void Knight.
• A doctor confronted Frances Barrison about her hope that Cletus would rescue her, and Frances replied by typing “Screw you!!”

Cletus Kasady used Carnage to break Frances Barrison out of the asylum, and the couple escaped together after fighting off police. They planned to recruit Vulture and another person with an awakened mind, while Adrian Toomes secretly reunited with his wife, Cheryl.

• Cletus Kasady appeared at Frances Barrison’s cell, killed the white-haired doctor and the guards, and freed Frances from her glass chamber.
• Cletus Kasady and Frances Barrison escaped the asylum in a red Mustang, destroying police cars that blocked their way.
• Frances Barrison used a sonic blast to destroy a police helicopter, but the sound also hurt Carnage, who warned her that he was sensitive to sound.
• Cletus Kasady told Frances Barrison to find Vulture, Adrian Toomes, and said he would find a priest for their wedding and recruit someone else with an awakened mind.
• Adrian Toomes sneaked past police watching his family, entered his house, and embraced his tearful wife, Cheryl.

Adrian Toomes returned home to reassure Cheryl and Liz, but kept the truth about the Ravencroft Prison massacre from them. Nick Fury assembled the New Avengers to capture him, and Captain America confronted Adrian in the backyard, where Adrian transformed after refusing to surrender his symbiote.

• Adrian Toomes apologized to Cheryl and Liz, insisted he was innocent of the Ravencroft Prison deaths, and refused to explain more because he feared endangering them.
• Nick Fury briefed the New Avengers on Adrian's return and denied that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s symbiote experiments caused the attacks, while Captain America questioned his account.
• Captain America agreed to lead the attempt to capture Adrian, warning that Adrian could fly and that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s success would depend on luck.
• Adrian said goodbye to Cheryl and Liz, but Captain America confronted him in the backyard and offered him a fair trial if he came back to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Adrian rejected Captain America's offer, declared that the symbiote was his, and let it cover his body as he prepared to fight.

Adrian Toomes fought the Avengers while insisting he had to protect his family and warning that Knull was coming to Earth. The battle remained unresolved as Hawkeye fired a chemical-fuel arrow at Toomes while Toomes's spear threatened Thing.

• Adrian Toomes attacked Captain America with his Symbiote wings, then pinned him down with black webbing after rejecting his plea to surrender.
• Human Torch, Thing, and Invisible Woman joined the fight, but Toomes redirected Captain America into Human Torch, knocking both men unconscious.
• Toomes warned the Avengers that Knull would soon descend on Earth, and Hawkeye struck him with a sonic arrow that disrupted his Symbiote.
• Thing charged Toomes, who smashed him into a building and then threw him into the air before aiming a spear at him.
• Captain America called for Hawkeye to stop Toomes, and Hawkeye fired an arrow carrying compressed chemical fuel.

Adrian Toomes abandoned his fight with the Avengers after learning that Frances Barrison had kidnapped Liz and demanded he come alone to Grace Church. Nick Fury pressured Cheryl into revealing the location, then sent the Avengers after the abductors while concealing that the kidnapped girl was a Skrull posing as Liz.

• Hawkeye struck Adrian Toomes's symbiote wing with a weakened incendiary arrow, and Adrian cut off the burning limb before attacking him.
• Invisible Woman blocked Adrian's flight toward Hawkeye, but Adrian escaped her barrier and nearly struck Hawkeye with a giant blade before Black Widow and Thing intervened.
• Frances Barrison broke into Adrian's home, knocked Cheryl unconscious, and abducted the Skrull girl disguised as Liz, leaving a message that Cletus Kasady would meet Adrian at Grace Church.
• Cheryl told Adrian that Liz had been taken, so Adrian flew away from the fight to rescue her while the Avengers lost track of him.
• Nick Fury threatened Cheryl until she revealed the message, then ordered the Avengers to Grace Church to recover Adrian's symbiote and ensure the girl's safety.
• Nick Fury privately revealed that the kidnapped girl was a Skrull operative and feared her death would expose his secret intelligence asset.

Cletus Kasady and Carnage lured Adrian Toomes to a church and tried to recruit him into a plan against the Void Knight, using a Skrull girl disguised as Liz as leverage. Toomes refused, and the chapter ended with Carnage overpowering him while the girl remained trapped in his tendril.

• Adrian Toomes stormed into the church to rescue his daughter, but Frances Barrison’s ultrasonic attack sent him crashing down and also angered Carnage.
• Carnage defeated Toomes, pinned him to the wall, and proposed that they join forces to kill the Void Knight.
• Cletus Kasady revealed that the captive posing as Liz was a Skrull girl and threatened her to force Toomes to accept the plan.
• Toomes refused to join Kasady, arguing that the Void Knight was less dangerous than the murderous man threatening the girl.
• Kasady strangled the girl to provoke Toomes, who broke free and attacked, but Kasady struck him across the church and left the Loyalist symbiote withdrawn.

Gwen rescued Liz from Cletus Kasady and questioned Adrian Toomes about the Ravencroft Prison incident and the Void Knight. After learning Toomes had little information, she turned to punish Cletus for the prison guards’ deaths.

• Cletus tormented Adrian and Liz, knocked Frances unconscious, then devoured Adrian’s symbiote and left him helpless as Liz passed out.
• Gwen swung into the church, kicked Cletus away, caught Liz, and confirmed that the girl was still alive.
• Gwen questioned Adrian, who denied responsibility for the Ravencroft disappearances and deaths and said the Void Knight, Knull’s chosen one, had supplied the prisoners with symbiotes.
• Cletus broke free of Gwen’s webs and offered to help her kill the Void Knight, but Gwen refused and attacked him.
• Gwen pinned Cletus to the wall with scarlet webs and revealed her Hell Spider Spears and horns as she vowed to make him suffer for the guards.

Gwen killed Cletus Kasady and Frances Barrison by draining their life force with her Hell Spider Spears, then refused to be intimidated by Nick Fury. After Fury discovered Carnage was dead, he blamed Gwen for destroying a symbiote he claimed humanity needed to fight future threats.

• Gwen impaled Cletus Kasady with four Hell Spider Spears, which drained his life force and disabled Carnage.
• Frances Barrison attacked Gwen with an ultrasonic blast, but Gwen blocked it and killed Frances with another spear.
• Adrian Toomes watched Gwen defeat Carnage and resolved to live honestly for his daughter’s sake.
• Nick Fury arrived with Captain America and the Avengers, ordered Gwen to hand over Cletus Kasady, and threatened to label her a supercriminal.
• Gwen tossed Cletus’s lifeless body at Nick Fury, and Black Widow confirmed that both he and the symbiote were dead.
• Nick Fury erupted at Gwen, accusing her of destroying a valuable symbiote that could help humanity survive future attacks by Titans and Kaiju.

Gwen refused Nick Fury’s demand for the Symbiote and challenged his order to arrest her, bringing the Avengers close to a fight. Homelander arrived to defend her, and the confrontation ended with him warning Nick Fury to consider the consequences of targeting his people.

• Gwen told Nick Fury that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s plans for the Symbiote were not her concern and said she had acted justly by killing the Symbiote and its host.
• Nick Fury ordered Captain America and the Avengers to arrest Gwen, but Captain America hesitated and Gwen pointed out that they were preparing to use violence against her.
• Gwen and the Avengers prepared to fight as Adrian Toomes worried she could not face them alone.
• Homelander flew into the church with Thing and confronted Nick Fury, demanding to know who had threatened his companion.
• Thing challenged Homelander, but Nick Fury ordered him to stand down to avoid a fight.
• Nick Fury accused Homelander of interfering with S.H.I.E.L.D., and Homelander asked whether Fury had considered the consequences of targeting his people.

Homelander rescued Gwen from the Avengers and let Adrian Toomes live after Gwen chose not to kill anyone else. At the Helicarrier, Bruce Banner and Nick Fury investigated the Symbiotes, and Fury questioned Toomes about Void Knight and Ravencroft Prison.

• Homelander threatened to kill the Avengers and blame Adrian Toomes, but Gwen declined to pursue the matter and warned Toomes to be a better father.
• Gwen left with Homelander, who complained about her street heroics before flying away; Gwen then swung off into the night.
• Bruce Banner confirmed the Symbiote had left Adrian Toomes but said Toomes had only two or three years to live, and he suspected an intelligent being was controlling many Symbiotes.
• Nick Fury asked Banner to strengthen the twelve Symbiote Jaeger pilots and promised to obtain a living Symbiote soldier for study.
• Nick Fury interrogated Adrian Toomes about Ravencroft Prison and asked him for Void Knight's real identity.

Nick Fury interrogated Adrian Toomes about Knull, the Gene Code, and the Void Knight, then ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to hunt Symbiote Warriors while plotting to capture Knull. Two days later, Peter Parker, Gwen, and Harry Osborn tracked a tagged Symbiote Warrior, and Peter apologized after questioning Harry’s Green Goblin Armor.

• Adrian Toomes told Nick Fury that Knull was the God of Symbiotes, imprisoned on Klyntar, and that the Void Knight sought the missing piece of the Gene Code.
• Nick Fury decided to find the Void Knight before Carl Mala became involved, but Adrian could not identify the Gene Code’s location or provide more details about the Void Knight.
• Nick Fury questioned Black Widow about Eddie Brock, then ordered the Captain to capture a Symbiote Warrior for interrogation.
• Peter Parker, Gwen, and Harry Osborn tracked a tagged Symbiote Warrior through deserted streets after secretly planting a signal transmitter on him.
• Peter asked about Harry’s Green Goblin Armor, and Harry explained its origins before Peter apologized and offered to help improve it.

Gwen, Peter Parker, and Harry Osborn discovered a symbiote transmitter that could be sending Earth’s coordinates to Knull, then encountered the Void Knight. Gwen recognized him as her father’s killer, Eddie Brock, and attacked him.

• Harry Osborn, Peter Parker, and Gwen tracked the beacon signal through the subway tunnels to a chamber filled with symbiote warriors and a towering flesh-and-blood transmitter.
• Gwen suspected the transmitter was sending information or Earth’s coordinates to Knull, so Harry sent the chamber’s coordinates to [Warp Group].
• As the trio prepared to leave, Gwen’s [Spider-Sense] warned her of a winged symbiote figure, whom Harry identified as the possible [Void Knight].
• Gwen ordered Harry to stop the figure, and Harry’s [Pumpkin Bomb] struck Eddie Brock as Gwen rushed in to attack.
• Gwen recognized Eddie Brock as her father’s killer and charged at him with eight [Hell Spider Spears] sprouting from her back.

Gwen and her companions fought Eddie Brock and his Symbiote Warriors beneath the Beacon Tree, but Eddie used their concern for one another to keep Gwen from reaching him. The chapter left Gwen abandoning her chance to attack Eddie so she could rescue Peter and Harry, while Eddie watched in disbelief.

• Eddie Brock ordered more than a thousand Symbiote Warriors to attack Gwen, Peter, and Harry after Gwen wounded him with her Hell Spider Spears.
• Peter fought through the horde to reach Gwen, while Harry dodged attacks on his Goblin Glider and pleaded for help.
• Gwen told Peter and Harry to retreat, but Peter refused to leave her as she swung toward Eddie to attack again.
• Eddie avoided Gwen and sent more Symbiote Warriors against her, then pointed out that Peter and Harry were trapped and in danger.
• Gwen broke off her attack on Eddie and swung toward Peter and Harry to save them, leaving Eddie stunned.

Eddie Brock struggled to identify Spider-Woman while his symbiote army kept Peter Parker, Gwen, and Harry Osborn surrounded. Logan, X-23, and [Polaris] arrived, but Logan said the main reinforcements had not yet come, leaving the group to fight as Eddie feared Carl Mala might learn of his plan.

• Eddie Brock ordered his symbiotes to keep Spider-Woman's head intact so he could identify her before killing everyone who knew her.
• Peter Parker urged Gwen to escape, while Harry Osborn protested that he did not want to die; Gwen apologized for letting her emotions endanger them.
• Logan, X-23, and [Polaris] emerged from a portal, and [Polaris] revealed that Commander Zemo had sent the [Death Dealers], led by [Vampire Queen] Selene, as reinforcements.
• When Peter Parker called for help, Logan told him to hold on because the three mutants were not the main force, then prepared to defend his own group from incoming Symbiote Warriors.
• Eddie Brock recognized the mutants as possible allies of Spider-Woman and worried that Carl Mala knew about his plan, but he tried to reassure himself with his power as the [Void Knight] and his control of [Grendel] and thousands of [Loyalist Symbiotes].