Chapter Summaries

Jean Grey’s nightmare unleashed a psychic shockwave and uncontrolled powers, prompting Professor X and Beast to investigate the danger through Cerebro. They traced the energy to Cairo and found Moira MacTaggert there, while Peter revealed he had absorbed a trace of Phoenix Force and offered to join the operation.

• Professor X and Beast confirmed that the earthquake’s epicenter was Cairo, then Jean’s psychic shockwave awakened the academy.
• Beast and Professor X found Jean in pain as her nightmare triggered intense heat and uncontrolled telekinesis; Professor X sensed visions of a burning world and a towering blue figure.
• After Jean woke and the shockwave faded, Professor X decided to use Cerebro to uncover the nightmare’s source.
• Professor X located a powerful energy source in Cairo and was surprised to find Moira MacTaggert there.
• Peter appeared in the Cerebro chamber, revealed he had captured a trace of Phoenix Force from Jean, and teased Professor X with tissues.
• Peter offered to join Professor X and Beast in confronting the dangerous figure from Jean’s nightmare, and Professor X accepted his help.

Mystique warned Charles that Magneto had lost his family, and Charles used Cerebro to find him, allowing Apocalypse to invade his mind and locate the academy. Peter stopped the attack, restored Charles’s ability to walk, and prepared to confront Apocalypse in Cairo.

• Mystique told Charles that Magneto’s identity had been exposed and his wife and daughter had been killed, leaving him on the verge of madness.
• Charles connected to Magneto through Cerebro and discovered Apocalypse standing beside him, but Apocalypse used the psychic link to attack Charles and locate the academy.
• Peter knocked Alex unconscious before he could destroy Cerebro, then used the Horse Talisman to force Apocalypse’s psychic presence out of Charles’s mind.
• Peter slapped Charles, bringing him back to his senses, and Charles realized that he could walk again.
• Peter looked toward Cairo and said he would defeat Apocalypse in ten moves or call it a botched order.

Apocalypse discovered a powerful soul but held off on taking a new body, then led Magneto and his allies in an assault on Stryker’s base. There, he freed imprisoned mutants and transformed Wolverine, Logan, into his fifth horseman, War.

• Apocalypse sensed a powerful potential vessel but chose to gather more strength before claiming it.
• Apocalypse asked Magneto to name their enemy, and Magneto identified William Stryker and his X Laboratory.
• Magneto tore apart Stryker’s Alkali Lake base, while Apocalypse disabled the sonic weapons and buried Stryker and his soldiers in sand.
• Apocalypse opened the mutants’ cages, and the freed prisoners knelt before him.
• Logan attacked Apocalypse, who healed and empowered him before naming him the fifth horseman, War.

Apocalypse led his five Horsemen in an assault on Xavier's School, overwhelming the X-Men as he tried to claim Professor X. Peter appeared on the battlefield and stopped Wolverine's attack by twisting his Adamantium claws into a pretzel.

• Apocalypse transformed Logan into a loyal War Horseman and led his army toward the United States.
• Apocalypse and the five Horsemen attacked Xavier's School, where Magneto rejected Charles's pleas to abandon his revenge.
• The Horsemen and Magneto defeated the X-Men and students, leaving Professor X ready to surrender himself.
• Peter watched the battle from the lawn, then announced that he had come to kill Apocalypse.
• Wolverine charged Peter, who caught his claws and twisted them out of shape.

Peter overpowered Wolverine, then transformed and unleashed a vast forest that trapped Wolverine and dispersed Apocalypse’s sand dragons. He turned toward Magneto and began walking through the air to confront him.

• Peter twisted Wolverine’s Adamantium claws and repeatedly sent him flying, but Wolverine healed and kept charging back.
• Peter transformed into a Floral God Mammoth and trapped Wolverine’s claws in a wooden shield.
• Apocalypse sent two sand dragons at Peter as Wolverine charged, but Peter used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to cover the battlefield in trees, bind Wolverine, and disperse the sand dragons.
• The forest obstructed Magneto’s control over nearby metal wreckage, and Peter told him he was next.
• Peter returned to human form and used Moonwalk to step through the air toward Magneto.

Peter shrugged off Magneto’s magnetic attacks and closed in, while Angel’s ambush failed and Peter tore off his metal wings. Peter then challenged Magneto with lightning in his hand, leaving the confrontation poised for its next move.

• Magneto used metal fragments and magnetic fields to attack Peter and disrupt the iron ions in his blood, but Peter advanced unharmed.
• Magneto hurled a school bus at Peter, who flattened it with a punch before reaching him.
• Magneto bent Peter’s fist aside with a repulsive magnetic field, allowing Angel to ambush Peter from behind.
• Peter’s back shattered Angel’s metal wings, and Peter ripped both wings from Angel, sending him plunging toward the ground.
• Peter faced Magneto with lightning blazing in his palm and asked how Magneto would respond to electromagnetic force.

Peter advanced through Magneto’s magnetic defenses with lightning, then revealed that the attack had been a distraction while he prepared a colossal lightning dragon above them. Magneto was left staring in terror as Peter named the move Lightning Release: Kirin and credited Storm’s stored electrical charge.

• Magneto strengthened his magnetic barriers and sent a storm of metal fragments against Peter’s lightning.
• Peter’s Chidori burned through the metal and pierced Magneto’s barriers, leaving Magneto injured and the lightning inches from his heart.
• The lightning abruptly stopped, and Magneto believed he had won the clash.
• Storm and Psylocke spotted a colossal dragon-shaped mass of lightning in the clouds, and Magneto looked up in horror.
• Peter revealed that the dragon was Lightning Release: Kirin and said Storm’s stored charge had helped him summon it.

Peter defeated Magneto with the Lightning Qilin, then challenged Apocalypse and revealed he had come for him. Apocalypse formed a colossal stone giant and attacked Peter, leaving their battle underway.

• The Lightning Qilin struck Magneto, leaving him barely alive in a massive crater, and Peter assured Professor X that Magneto would survive.
• Peter turned his attention to Apocalypse and said he had come for him, while his watch secretly copied Apocalypse's genes.
• Apocalypse offered Peter a place among his horsemen, but Peter mocked him and challenged him to a fight.
• Apocalypse unleashed his power and assembled a hundred-meter stone giant from the pyramid and nearby debris.
• Apocalypse stood atop the giant and sent its enormous fist crashing toward Peter.

Peter confronted Apocalypse at the Xavier Institute, summoning his Complete Susanoo and empowering its blade with several destructive techniques. The clash appeared to end in a stalemate, but Apocalypse’s compressed sand-and-stone giant suddenly exploded from within.

• Peter summoned his Complete Susanoo in response to Apocalypse’s giant stone fist.
• Peter layered lightning, black flames, Six King Gun, and Armament Haki onto the Susanoo’s greatsword.
• Peter brought the enhanced blade down in one slash at Apocalypse and his sand-and-stone giant.
• Apocalypse compressed the giant and charged it into the blade, believing he had blocked Peter’s attack.
• Apocalypse’s sand-and-stone giant abruptly exploded into billions of grains of dust.

Peter split Apocalypse in half with a devastating slash, leaving his lower body dangling from a tree, but Apocalypse struck Peter with a psychic attack. As Peter hung motionless, the X-Men tried to stop Apocalypse from regenerating and invading his consciousness.

• Peter's slash destroyed the sand giant and split Apocalypse in half, sending his lower body onto a tree branch.
• Li Qianhuan and the other mutant teenagers laughed at Apocalypse's defeat while Professor X and the students admired Peter.
• Apocalypse unleashed a psychic beam that left Peter motionless in midair.
• Professor X warned that Apocalypse was invading Peter's consciousness, and Beast Hank, Cyclops, Li Qianhuan, Storm, and the others attacked Apocalypse.
• Apocalypse's energy barrier blocked the attacks as his body regenerated and his lower half flowed back from the tree.

Jean Grey unleashed the Phoenix Force to destroy Apocalypse, while Peter revealed that he had only pretended to be under psychic control. As Apocalypse burned, Peter appeared and drew the Phoenix flames onto himself.

• Apocalypse healed rapidly and tried to erase Peter's consciousness, while Charles urged Jean to release her hidden power.
• Jean overcame her fear and awakened the Phoenix Force, summoning a vast cosmic firebird.
• The Phoenix Force shattered Apocalypse's shield and began erasing his body in golden-red flames.
• Peter's Horse Talisman had already neutralized Apocalypse's psychic attack, and Peter had been pretending to be controlled.
• As Apocalypse faced destruction, Peter appeared between him and the Phoenix flames and drew the flames onto himself.

Peter absorbed the Dark Phoenix Force and used the Horse Talisman and Tiger Charm to heal his body and neutralize its will. He then revealed he had never been controlled by Apocalypse and destroyed him with a golden-red flame.

• Peter absorbed the Phoenix Force, which tried to overwhelm his body and erase his will.
• Peter used the Horse Talisman to heal the damage and the Tiger Charm to balance and neutralize the Phoenix Force's chaotic will.
• The Xavier Institute's people feared Apocalypse had controlled Peter, but Peter winked at Li Qianhuan and said he was still himself.
• Peter reminded Apocalypse that he had promised to defeat him within ten moves, then snapped his fingers.
• A golden-red flame broke Apocalypse down into particles, erasing him completely.

Peter absorbed the Phoenix Force’s attack without harm, but a sudden warning that Thanos had endangered Earth forced him to abandon his playful stance. He demanded that the Phoenix Force enter his body willingly so he could leave at once.

• After Peter erased Apocalypse, the Phoenix Force took control of Jean Grey and attacked Peter with golden-red flames.
• Professor X ordered Nightcrawler and Quicksilver to evacuate the children while he and the other X-Men prepared to hold Jean back.
• Peter absorbed Jean’s attack unharmed, explaining that his body could host the Phoenix Force and that its power now healed him.
• Peter noticed Merciful Soulfall’s teleportation portraits flashing, signaling that his teammates were in grave danger on Earth, apparently because of Thanos.
• Peter’s killing intent overwhelmed the X-Men, and he told the Phoenix Force to enter his body willingly because he had no time to waste.

Peter transferred the Phoenix Force from Jean Grey into himself, healed the X-Men and their academy, and returned to his own universe. There, Thanos prepared to invade Earth for the remaining Infinity Stones as the God Butcher and Mephisto arrived on Titan.

• Peter used the Tiger Charm and his Phoenix Force to persuade the Phoenix Force to leave Jean Grey and enter him, while it left a spark of life and spiritual energy within her.
• Peter caught Jean as she fell, then used Merciful Soulfall to depart the X-Men universe after healing Magneto, Wolverine, Beast, and the others and restoring the academy.
• Ebony Maw returned to Titan with the Reality Stone, and Thanos added it to his gauntlet, bringing his collection to three Infinity Stones.
• Thanos learned that conquering Earth could give him access to the Space, Power, and Time Stones, and he resolved to invade.
• The God Butcher and Mephisto arrived on Titan, where Mephisto introduced himself to Thanos.

Thanos allied with Mephisto and Gorr, then led a Chitauri fleet toward Earth. Odin intercepted them at the border of the Nine Realms, but after a fierce battle he was nearly out of strength and faced death.

• Thanos accepted Mephisto’s offer to help him gather the Infinity Stones in exchange for letting Mephisto claim Earth, and Gorr joined their alliance.
• The allied villains mobilized their Chitauri fleet and set course for Earth.
• Nick Fury and Heimdall detected the approaching fleet, while Odin rejected Frigga’s plea to seek help from Earth and prepared to fight.
• Odin chose the border of the Nine Realms as the battlefield and charged Thanos’s fleet, destroying many ships and Chitauri forces.
• Thanos and Gorr battled Odin until his Divine Power drained away, leaving him gravely wounded and convinced he would die there.

Odin died after Mephisto ambushed him, and Thor led the surviving Asgardians to Earth as the Avengers faced Thanos, Gorr, and Mephisto. The Ancient One revealed that she had seen fourteen million six hundred and five futures and that Earth won in all but one, just as a purple shield appeared around Gwen.

• Odin gathered Asgard’s remaining Divine Power for an attack, but Mephisto used the Reality Stone to ambush and fatally stab him.
• Odin hurled Gungnir toward Loki before dying, and Frigga and Loki convinced Thor to obey Odin’s final order and escape to Earth with the Asgardians.
• The Avengers and Asgardians fought Thanos’s forces on Earth, but the three villains overwhelmed them until the Ancient One arrived and trapped the Chitauri in the Mirror Dimension.
• Thanos asked how often the Ancient One had seen victory among fourteen million six hundred and five futures, and she answered that Earth won fourteen million six hundred and four times.
• The Ancient One said that someone would always descend from the sky when the hope of seven billion people converged, and a purple energy shield appeared around Gwen.

Peter returned to the battlefield, killed Ebony Maw, and prepared the Avengers and their allies for a transformation he called the glorious evolution. He activated Celestial Mode and infused everyone with Celestial Energy and Apocalypse’s mutant gene.

• Peter appeared beside Gwen Stacy and reunited with her as the Avengers and people watching the livestream celebrated his return.
• Gorr sensed that Peter threatened the Necrosword, Mephisto feared Peter’s effect on Earth’s negative emotions, and Thanos became wary of him.
• Peter revealed that he had lured Ebony Maw into a trap, then used the Breaker of Worlds Hammer and a golden flame to turn him to ash.
• Peter asked his allies if they were ready to join the glorious evolution and transformed into Celestial Mode.
• Peter sent energy seeds into everyone’s bodies and added the mutant gene he had obtained from Apocalypse.

Peter used Apocalypse’s power on the Celestial Energy-enhanced heroes, triggering permanent evolutions that transformed the battle against the Chitauri into a one-sided slaughter. As Thor, Frigga, Loki, and Sif drove Gorr back, Peter turned his attention to Thanos.

• Peter touched Captain America, whose body grew to over ten meters tall and whose shield sliced a Chitauri Leviathan Beast in two.
• Peter enhanced Tony Stark, giving him metallic skin that could merge with Vibranium and boosting his chest laser enough to pierce a Chitauri Whale Ship.
• Peter evolved the other heroes, granting them abilities including Gwen’s organic webbing and light magic, Felicia’s beast form, Daisy’s defensive shockwave field, Natasha’s ice powers, Harry’s energy feathers, and greatly increased strength for Sif.
• The enhanced heroes slaughtered Chitauri forces and dismantled their Whale Ships while Thor, Frigga, Loki, and Sif forced Gorr back.
• Peter turned his attention toward Thanos, signaling that they would face him next.

Peter fought Thanos and overwhelmed him with Senbonzakura Kageyoshi, leaving Thanos trapped and badly wounded. Thanos tried to strike back with the Mind Stone and Soul Stone, but Peter’s defenses nullified the mental attack.

• Thanos watched his army fall and accused Peter Parker of underestimating him, but Peter mocked him as Purple Sweet Potato.
• Thanos attacked Mantis with an energy wave, and Peter blocked it before stopping Thanos’s blow with Senbonzakura.
• Peter released Bankai: Senbonzakura Kageyoshi and trapped Thanos inside a storm of blades that shredded his armor and covered him in wounds.
• Thanos unleashed a mental shockwave using the Mind Stone and Soul Stone, but Peter’s Horse Talisman and Phoenix Force rendered it ineffective.

Thanos used the Reality Stone to enhance himself and the Mind Stone to read Peter's thoughts, eventually landing a devastating blow. Peter healed instantly and unleashed seven fire-based enhancements, declaring the start of phase two.

• Thanos used the Reality Stone to break free of Senkei: Senbonzakura Kageyoshi and attack Peter with his Tyrant's Blades.
• Peter fought Thanos with his Vibranium Tang Horizontal Sword and Armament Haki, but Thanos used the Mind Stone to predict his thoughts and counter his moves.
• Thanos's Tyrant's Blades cut a deep, nearly fatal wound across Peter's chest as Gwen Stacy and the others rushed to help.
• Peter stopped them and healed completely with the Horse Talisman's power, then angrily challenged Thanos.
• Peter combined seven fire-based enhancements on his fists and announced that phase two had begun.