Chapter Summaries

Gravik seized control of the Skrulls, recruited Wanda and Pietro in Sokovia, and helped drive a United Nations resolution forcing America to deploy its superheroes worldwide. The Avengers debated how to respond while Gwen suspected someone was manipulating events behind the scenes.

• Gravik deposed Talos, imprisoned him, and led the Skrulls to infiltrate Europe.
• Gravik met Baron Zemo in Sokovia and recruited Wanda and Pietro by promising revenge against Tony Stark and a chance to dismantle the Avengers.
• European representatives condemned America at the United Nations, and Maria Hill failed to prevent a resolution placing American superheroes under UN command.
• The Avengers argued over whether to comply with the resolution, while Gwen suspected an unseen force was behind the crisis.

Gwen refused to rely on Peter and persuaded the Avengers to accept the United Nations’ Global Responsibility Accord while adopting safeguards against a suspected conspiracy. After the team deployed around the world, Tony learned that convincing impostors were attacking governments in the Avengers’ names.

• Gwen rejected the idea of calling Peter and proposed that the Avengers accept deployment while preserving their independent judgment.
• Gwen introduced spider robots to record missions and established a mutual trust protocol requiring communication, coordinated rescues, and trust in teammates.
• Tony, Natasha, Captain America, Banner, and Hawkeye approved Gwen’s plan unanimously.
• The Avengers accepted the accord and dispersed around the world, while Tony stayed in America to oversee its defense and the armor production plan.
• JARVIS reported that apparent Avengers had attacked officials and military targets across Europe, and Tony realized the impostors possessed the heroes’ signature abilities.

Peter brought the Guardians of the Galaxy to Sovereign for a mission involving a giant creature and Nebula, then watched as Rocket stole the Anvil Energy Batteries and provoked the Sovereign Fleet. As the fleet prepared to fire on the Mandate, Peter spotted a silver-white streak approaching and told Star-Lord that his father had arrived.

• Rocket reached for the Mandate's energy conduits and was caught by its security system, while Peter predicted that bringing the Guardians along would lead to a mission involving a giant octopus.
• Ayesha contacted the group and hired them to deal with a creature disrupting the Sovereign's Anvil Energy Batteries; Gamora recognized Nebula as her sister, and the group accepted the job.
• At Sovereign's energy complex, the Guardians fought the giant creature while Peter watched from the Mandate, and Gamora eventually killed it.
• The Guardians met Nebula, and Rocket stole the Anvil Energy Batteries, prompting Ayesha to send the Sovereign Fleet after the Mandate.
• As the Sovereign Fleet prepared to fire, Peter noticed a silver-white streak approaching and told Star-Lord that his father was coming.

Ego rescued the Mandate and mistook Peter for Star-Lord, then explained his origins and invited the group to his planet. There, Mantis Brant sensed Peter’s unusually intense feelings about family.

• Ego’s silver ship destroyed the Sovereign fighters pursuing the Mandate, and he boarded the ship looking for Star-Lord.
• Ego mistakenly greeted Peter as his son, prompting Star-Lord to demand twenty-five years of child support before Ego offered him a planet.
• Ego flirted with Sif, so she drew her sword and Peter threatened him before ordering him off the Mandate.
• Star-Lord and the others agreed to travel with Ego to his planet, where Mantis Brant greeted them.
• Mantis Brant trembled when Ego introduced Peter because she sensed his powerful emotions toward family.

Peter healed Nebula and learned that she and Gamora both wanted to kill Thanos, while Brant asked him to see her deceased siblings. Back at the palace, Star-Lord attacked Ego over his mother’s death, and Peter freed the others by striking Ego, leaving the two facing off.

• Peter destroyed Nebula’s attacking craft, healed her with the Horse Talisman, and watched her reconcile with Gamora as they named Thanos as their target.
• Brant was moved by Peter’s devotion to family and asked him to come with her.
• Star-Lord asked Ego whether he had loved his mother, then opened fire after Ego admitted he had put something in her brain and caused her death.
• Ego trapped Star-Lord and the others with energy tentacles and began draining Star-Lord’s power while threatening Sif.
• Peter shattered the tentacles, struck Ego twice, and challenged him for attacking on his own planet.

Peter fought Ego after Ego revealed his planetary energy body and stripped Star-Lord of his Celestial Energy. The chapter ended with Ego petrifying Peter’s summoned forest, confident that his command over the planet made him unbeatable.

• Ego transformed into a colossal energy giant and attacked Peter while Star-Lord briefly restrained his descending foot with Celestial Energy.
• Ego extracted Star-Lord’s power, and the unconscious Star-Lord fell as Ego’s foot resumed its attack on Peter.
• Peter blocked the stomp with a wooden shield, then pierced Ego’s foot with branches that absorbed Celestial Energy.
• Peter began collecting Ego’s genes and summoned a vast forest with Wood Release: Flower Tree World Emergence.
• Ego sent energy through the ground and petrified the forest, then declared that he could control all the energy on the planet.

Peter overwhelmed Ego with his iron-coated True Several Thousand Hands, forcing Ego to compress his energy and prepare to destroy the planet. Peter anticipated the self-destruct plan and activated the Little Broken Watch, which flashed green.

• Peter formed a giant wooden Buddha, covered it in Armament Haki, and struck Ego with waves of fists.
• Ego's energy repairs fell behind the damage as Mantis sensed his fear and Sif declared Peter the victor.
• Ego attacked, but Peter's Buddha regenerated its hands and kept driving cracks toward Ego's core.
• Ego compressed his energy and revealed his plan to self-destruct, claiming his seeds would let him be reborn elsewhere.
• Peter landed on Ego, turned the Little Broken Watch's dial one notch, and triggered a burst of green light.

Peter transformed into a Celestial energy being and drained Ego’s power, leaving him too weak to continue his self-destruction. Ego begged Peter and Star-Lord to spare him, but Star-Lord rejected him and helped finish him off.

• Peter transformed and thrust both hands into Ego’s energy core, absorbing Ego’s energy and severing his connection to his planted seeds.
• Ego shrank rapidly as his energy drained, while Sif assured Mantis and Star-Lord that Peter had things under control.
• Ego warned Peter that absorbing his energy could destroy him, then offered knowledge and secrets in exchange for cooperation.
• Peter refused Ego’s offer, saying he would inherit everything after Ego died.
• Ego pleaded with Star-Lord to stop Peter, but Star-Lord shot him and named Yondu as his only father.
• Star-Lord fired more shots for his mother, Yondu, and Ego’s abandoned children, then Peter praised him for defending his girlfriend.

Peter absorbed Ego and escaped the collapsing planet with Star-Lord and the others. After parting ways with the Guardians on Xandar, he prepared to return to Earth, where Mantis asked to go with him.

• Peter absorbed Ego's remaining energy, killing him and causing Ego's planet to collapse.
• Peter rescued Mantis and used the Wheel of Fortune to bring the Mandate to the group, saving them from the collapsing planet.
• Peter and the Guardians reached Xandar, where they parted ways as Peter prepared to return to Earth.
• Mantis followed Peter to the cockpit and asked to go to Earth with him, prompting Sif to remark that the conversation felt familiar.

Peter was stunned when Mantis asked him to take her in, then learned she had chosen him because she sensed the love in his heart. After Mantis read his unkind thoughts about her antennae, she retracted them and thanked him for caring about her, leaving Peter embarrassed that she had overheard him again.

• Mantis told Peter she had refused Star-Lord's invitation because she sensed his love and romantic feelings for Sif.
• Mantis touched Peter and discovered that he thought her antennae detracted from her beauty.
• Peter awkwardly described her antennae as ahead of their time, and Mantis retracted them beneath her skin.
• Mantis explained that retracting her antennae reduced her powers and recalled that Ego had forced her to keep them extended to help him sleep.
• Peter told Mantis she was free to be herself, and she thanked him for caring and for calling her cute after sensing his thoughts.

Peter agreed to bring Mantis to Earth on the condition that she live independently and learn about human emotions before deciding whether she truly loved him. After returning to the Solar System, he discovered that the Skrulls had stirred up opposition to the Avengers and vowed to deal with them.

• Mantis asked to live on Earth with Peter, and he agreed after asking her to first experience life independently and reconsider her feelings.
• Peter promised to reunite Mantis with her brother if she wanted to return to him.
• The Mandate began its return journey, and Peter worried about the Avengers and the Skrulls while reflecting that he had failed to find the Skrulls a new home.
• The Wheel of Fortune completed its space jump and synchronized with Earth's communications network.
• Peter reviewed reports showing United Nations opposition to the Avengers and superhero privatization, and recognized the Skrulls' involvement.
• Peter concluded that the Skrulls had made trouble because they thought he would not return, and promised to send them a grand gift.

Peter returned to Earth and learned that the Skrulls were abducting superheroes and using impostors to discredit them while replacing them with fake heroes. He found Gwen overwhelmed by guilt and exhaustion, comforted her, and told her she had done well.

• Peter heard the Avengers discuss Hawkeye's disappearance and Daisy explained the Skrulls' plan to replace the heroes and steal their public influence.
• Peter revealed himself over the Avengers' communications channel, surprising the team and making Gwen fear he would be disappointed in her.
• Peter used purple light to appear behind Gwen in her dorm room and held her as she apologized for failing to stop the Skrulls.
• Peter dispelled Gwen's fatigue with the Horse Talisman and reassured her that she had handled the crisis well.

Peter comforted Gwen Stacy, then launched a nationwide broadcast promising an explanation for the recent accusations against superheroes. His return quickly reversed public opinion against the Skrulls’ campaign, while one anti-Arbiter influencer was mobbed by angry supporters.

• Gwen Stacy kissed Peter and insisted on staying awake to watch him confront the Skrulls.
• Sif brought Mantis Brandt to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and told the gathered superheroes that Peter had gone to deal with the Skrulls.
• Peter asked JJJ to arrange a nationwide live broadcast, then appeared as the Arbiter and promised to explain the accusations against superheroes within an hour.
• Viewers’ trust in the Arbiter rapidly overturned the anti-superhero sentiment the Skrulls had cultivated.
• A Skrull-controlled influencer posted an attack on the Arbiter, and angry netizens tracked him down and beat him outside a café.
• Tony Stark and Natasha discussed the public’s fierce loyalty to Peter after seeing the beating video.

Peter crashed the United Nations meeting, killed a representative who was revealed to be a Skrull, and exposed the aliens’ role in the superhero attacks. As attacks broke out in eight cities, he killed another disguised Skrull and declared he would kill them all.

• Peter flew through the United Nations conference room ceiling and killed the Little Japan representative, whose body transformed into a Skrull.
• Peter told the delegates that Skrulls had impersonated superheroes and caused the reported attacks.
• The Chinese representative asked Peter for conclusive evidence, but the Secretary-General announced simultaneous attacks in eight cities.
• The India representative accused Peter’s companions of causing the new disasters, and Peter killed him, revealing that he was also a Skrull.
• Peter told the delegates he would kill all the Skrulls.

Peter split into Good Peter and Evil Peter, promising to stop the Skrull attacks worldwide within one minute while protecting the United Nations representatives. He killed eight imposters in under a minute, then returned as the representatives tore up their agreements to suppress superheroes.

• Peter rejected the representatives’ calls to stay and said he needed only one minute to handle the Skrull attacks.
• Peter split into Good Peter, who stayed to protect the representatives, and Evil Peter, who traveled to the attacks.
• Evil Peter killed Skrulls disguised as superheroes at incidents in London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, and elsewhere, finishing in fifty-six point four three seconds.
• Good Peter kept the representatives safe and knocked out seven or eight Skrulls at the conference venue.
• Peter reunited with Good Peter and asked the representatives to void their agreements against superheroes.
• The Chinese representative tore up his agreement, and the other representatives followed.

After Peter crushed Gravik’s plans at the United Nations, Gravik gambled on an unfinished gene-fusion device to create a Super-Skrull army. He ended the chapter preparing to use mind-controlled Wanda and Quicksilver as weapons against Peter.

• Gravik rejected his adjutant’s suggestion to withdraw and killed him when he proposed retreating from Earth.
• Gravik ordered the incomplete Gene Fusion Chamber activated, despite the scientist’s warning that the process could kill many Skrulls and leave survivors unable to reproduce.
• Skrull civilians underwent forced genetic fusion, and more than 2,700 of the 4,000 Skrulls survived with at least three superpowers each.
• Gravik revealed that the fusion warriors had Extremis Virus and Super-Soldier Serum abilities, then vowed to use them against Peter.
• Gravik brought out Wanda and Quicksilver, who obeyed him like puppets after he controlled them with a secret Skrull drug.

Gravik threatened Earth and challenged Peter to meet him in Chernobyl, but Peter moved the confrontation forward and revealed he had a plan to empower his allies. At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Peter began an apparent ascension for Gwen Stacy and the others.

• Gravik announced that the Skrulls’ holy war had begun, threatened to kill the captured Avengers, and gave Peter twenty-four hours to surrender in Chernobyl.
• Peter mocked Gravik’s army and challenged him to fight in Chernobyl in one hour, then promised a worldwide broadcast of the battle.
• Peter reassured the United Nations representatives and vanished from the conference room.
• Tony Stark and the others questioned how they could fight Gravik’s far larger army, and Peter said he had never promised they would fight at their current strength.
• Peter asked Gwen Stacy and the others if they were ready for ascension, twisted the dial on his Little Broken Watch, and unleashed a primordial aura that transformed their surroundings into a golden sea of stars.

Peter returned in Celestial Mode after killing Ego and absorbing his power, then offered to share Celestial Energy with the heroes. He boosted Mantis’s abilities thirty-sixfold, leaving Tony stunned by what Peter called a tiny boost.

• Peter transformed into Celestial Mode, and Mantis mistook his aura for her father's and called him “Father.”
• Peter explained that he had killed Ego, who planned to consume the Milky Way, and brought Mantis with him.
• Peter announced he would share Celestial Energy, and Mantis objected that the power could not be freely granted.
• Peter sent golden energy into Mantis, greatly increasing her emotional perception and mind control so she could make everyone in the room laugh uncontrollably.
• Peter stopped the laughter and said his energy had boosted Mantis’s abilities about thirty-six times, prompting Tony to question his definition of a tiny boost.

Peter explained how he could share his power, then empowered the heroes for the coming battle. The heroes arrived in Chernobyl before a global audience to face Gravik’s vastly larger Super-Skrull army, and Gravik ordered his forces to attack.

• Peter explained that his energy could bless others, temporarily enhance them, and be withdrawn without lasting harm.
• Peter shared golden energy with everyone present, greatly amplifying their abilities and giving them energy armor.
• At Peter’s urging, the United Nations opened a global live broadcast as people around the world gathered to watch the battle.
• The heroes arrived in Chernobyl in an empowered Quinjet, with about fifty fighters facing more than 2,700 Super-Skrull Soldiers.
• Gravik taunted Peter about the numbers, but Peter dismissed his army as mongrel dogs, so Gravik ordered his soldiers to attack.

Peter activated Celestial Mode for Gwen Stacy and the other heroes as Gravik's Super-Skrull Soldiers charged. The heroes overwhelmed the attackers with their amplified abilities, while Tony and Harry joined the assault from the air.

• Gravik ordered more than 2,700 Super-Skrull Soldiers to charge the heroes.
• Peter transformed Gwen Stacy and the others into Celestial Mode, and Gwen pinned more than thirty soldiers with golden webs before Sif cut them down.
• Felicia's amplified song dissolved Skrull flesh and raised their blood into a dragon that battered the soldiers.
• Natasha froze Skrulls nearing self-destruction, and Daisy shattered them and immobilized others with shockwaves.
• Harry flew overhead on his enhanced Flying Skateboard, while Tony launched a sustained barrage of miniature missiles at the Skrulls.