Chapter Summaries

Peter and Thanos met in a devastating clash after Peter unleashed his Haymaker. As Peter challenged Thanos’s belief that the universe would praise his plan to erase half of all life, Thanos fell silent and his blades began to crack.

• Peter charged Thanos with his Haymaker, and Thanos chose to meet the punch head-on with his Reality Stone-enhanced Tyrant's Blades.
• Peter’s fist and Thanos’s blades collided, unleashing a shockwave that erased buildings and Chitauri, exposed the ocean basin, and hurled the Avengers away.
• Peter questioned whether Thanos’s plan to erase half of all life would earn him gratitude or praise.
• Thanos demanded to know how Peter knew his plan, and Peter claimed telepathy was a basic skill.
• Peter challenged Thanos to name any race that had thanked him for a century of conquest, and Thanos fell silent as his Tyrant's Blades cracked.

Peter exposed the loneliness behind Thanos's beliefs, revealed that he had destroyed the Power Stone, and shattered Thanos's weapon and body with a decisive punch. As Thanos began making the remaining Stones collide to destroy Earth, a scarlet figure appeared behind him.

• Thanos used the Mind Stone, Soul Stone, and Reality Stone to steady himself and repair the Tyrant's Blades while defending his plan as a future necessity.
• Peter accused Thanos of never having been loved and called his beliefs ignorant, leaving Thanos unable to respond.
• Peter revealed that Earth had only ever possessed two Stones and that he had destroyed the Power Stone he had supposedly taken from Ronan.
• Thanos's Tyrant's Blades shattered, and Peter punched a massive hole through his body, sending him crashing into Ancient One's spatial barrier.
• Thanos, weakened and near death, activated the three remaining Stones and made their powers collide to trigger an explosion that would destroy Earth.
• Peter prepared to stop Thanos, but a scarlet figure silently appeared behind him.

Mephisto betrayed Thanos, seized the Infinity Gauntlet and Necrosword, and revealed his plan to use Hell’s power against Peter. He summoned the enslaved souls of Odin and Thanos as Thor attacked him.

• Mephisto cut off Thanos’s arm, took the Infinity Gauntlet, and beheaded him.
• Mephisto used the Mind Stone to force Gorr to surrender the Necrosword, then killed him with it.
• Mephisto challenged Peter, who mocked him and questioned how the Stones would make him strong enough to win.
• Mephisto opened a rift to Hell and summoned corrupted, enslaved versions of Odin and Thanos.
• Thor charged Mephisto with Mjolnir after Mephisto taunted the Asgardians and kissed the Soul Stone.

Mephisto used the Soul, Mind, and Reality Stones to reveal his plan to rule the Multiverse, but Peter countered his soul manipulation with the Human Emperor Banner. Peter unleashed Kull's All-Spirits Cavalry against Mephisto's demon army, leaving Mephisto to consider fighting Peter directly.

• Mephisto revealed that he planned to use Peter's body to build an undead legion and rule the Multiverse, while Odin's enslaved soul attacked Thor.
• Peter summoned the Human Emperor Banner, whose light weakened the demons and caused Odin and Thanos's enslaved souls to falter.
• Mephisto used the Reality Stone to give the demons and enslaved souls physical bodies, weakening the banner's soul-targeting suction.
• Peter summoned Kull's All-Spirits Cavalry and the Eight Worthy, who charged Mephisto's army and slaughtered the demons.
• Mephisto watched his forces get destroyed and absorbed by the banner, then tightened his grip on the Necrosword as he considered defeating Peter himself.

Peter split into good and evil halves, then Good Peter asked people around the world to lend him their Vital Energy while he prepared in the Mirror Dimension. Evil Peter rejected Mephisto’s offer to share Hell and unleashed the Phoenix Force against him.

• Peter used the Tiger Charm’s power to divide himself into Good Peter and Evil Peter, shocking The Ancient One and Wanda.
• Good Peter asked The Ancient One to send him into the Mirror Dimension and had Tony broadcast his appeal worldwide.
• Good Peter asked people around the world to raise their hands and lend him their hopes, love, and Vital Energy.
• A child raised his hands first, and people across the planet followed, sending their thoughts and hopes toward Good Peter.
• Good Peter entered the geometric space as Vital Energy gathered, while Mephisto approached Evil Peter and offered to share Hell.
• Evil Peter rejected Mephisto’s offer and unleashed the Phoenix Force in a massive burst of dark crimson flames.

Evil Peter overpowered Mephisto with a corrupted Excalibur blast and a close-quarters beating, forcing the lord of Hell to reveal his giant true form. Evil Peter answered by combining Susanoo with the True Several Thousand Hands Buddha, leaving Mephisto facing an even more imposing demon-like giant.

• Mephisto attacked Evil Peter with the Necrosword, but Evil Peter used Excalibur to overpower the weapon and blast Mephisto back.
• Evil Peter taunted Mephisto and beat him in a close-quarters fight, leaving him badly wounded.
• Mephisto healed with the Reality Stone and Hell's energy, then transformed into a gigantic scarlet form.
• Evil Peter summoned a crimson Susanoo and combined it with the True Several Thousand Hands Buddha, creating an armored Thousand-Hand Demon God taller than Mephisto.
• Mephisto stared at Evil Peter's monstrous form and questioned which of them was truly the demon.

Evil Peter and the Thousand-Hand Demon God overwhelmed Mephisto, battering him into a giant slime while he relied on Hell and the Reality Stone to survive. Mephisto warned that Peter could not kill him, but Peter threatened to grind him into dust and force him back to Hell before he could strike.

• Mephisto attacked the Thousand-Hand Demon God, but its Flying Slash cut a deep wound into his fist.
• Evil Peter ordered the Thousand-Hand Demon God to unleash a storm of blade strikes that broke through Mephisto's Reality Stone shield and knocked him into the sea.
• The Thousand-Hand Demon God pierced Mephisto with Sakura Blades and pinned him down, slapping him until he was reduced to a purplish-red slime.
• Mephisto claimed that Hell and the Reality Stone would let him endure indefinitely and that Peter would eventually tire.
• Evil Peter dismissed the Thousand-Hand Demon God and threatened to grind Mephisto into dust before he could seize an opportunity.

Peter combined a Spirit Bomb powered by seven billion people with the Phoenix Force to destroy Mephisto and restore the Pacific coast. Odin’s freed soul gave Peter the Infinity Gauntlet before fading away, bringing the Infinity War Event to an end.

• Evil Peter revealed that Good Peter could unleash the energy needed to erase Mephisto beyond the Reality Stone’s ability to repair him.
• Good Peter emerged carrying a Spirit Bomb formed from the willpower of seven billion people, while Evil Peter created a Phoenix Force Super Big Ball Rasengan.
• The two Peters merged their powers into a golden sun, which Peter hurled at Mephisto as he tried to escape to his Hell Dimension.
• The golden sun erased Mephisto’s body, soul, and connection to the Hell Dimension, and the Spirit Bomb restored the ravaged Pacific coast.
• Odin’s freed soul crushed Mephisto’s remaining fragments and handed the Infinity Gauntlet to Peter before fading away, while Thor reached for him in vain.

After Odin died, Peter promised to help Thor protect Asgard and told him Mephisto might return. With the war over, Peter sacrificed the Infinity Gauntlet and three Infinity Stones, then chose to swallow the Necrosword to gain its power.

• Peter told Thor that Mephisto could be reborn and promised to help him find Mephisto's hell dimension so Thor could take revenge.
• Thor, Frigga, and Loki returned to Asgard for Odin's funeral and Thor's succession as God-King.
• Peter announced the war was over, and people around the world celebrated.
• Peter sacrificed the Infinity Gauntlet, Reality Stone, Mind Stone, and Soul Stone for Sacrifice Points.
• Peter transformed into Symbiote Mode and swallowed the Necrosword before Tony and Ancient One.

After devouring the Necrosword, Peter purified its power and proved his enhanced body could withstand Tony’s full-strength divine-artifact blast. At Avengers Tower, Ancient One took Peter aside and revealed that the secret behind her centuries-long life involved Dormammu and the Dark Dimension.

• Peter used the Horse Talisman and Phoenix Force to purify the Necrosword’s power and greatly enhance his body.
• Peter asked Tony to fire his strongest blast at him, and he caught it with one hand, quickly healing his badly burned palm.
• Peter invited Ancient One and Wanda to celebrate at Avengers Tower, and Mantis persuaded Wanda to accept.
• At the banquet, Ancient One asked Peter to speak privately and told him that the Dark Dimension and Dormammu were connected to her long life.

Ancient One explained why she had prolonged her life with power from the Dark Dimension and decided it was time to end her sin. Peter urged her to find a successor first, but was stunned when she revealed that she intended to approach Gwen Stacy.

• Ancient One told Peter she had stolen power from the Dark Dimension to keep protecting Earth because she could not find a successor.
• After seeing Peter's strength, Ancient One said she wanted to sever her ties to the Dark Dimension and accept death.
• Peter asked Ancient One to consider Earth's future protection and mentioned that Wanda might need someone besides him to restrain her.
• Ancient One agreed that extraordinary times justified breaking the rules and said she would approach Gwen Stacy as her successor.
• Peter realized Ancient One meant Gwen Stacy, not Stephen Strange, and asked if that was really who she intended to speak with.

Peter tried to persuade Ancient One to choose someone else as the next Sorcerer Supreme, but she insisted Gwen was the ideal candidate. When Gwen tried a Sling Ring, she opened a stable portal to Queens on her first attempt, astonishing everyone.

• Peter questioned Ancient One's choice of Gwen, but Ancient One praised Gwen's character and exceptional magical talent.
• Peter remembered Gwen's demonstrated affinity for magic and proposed testing whether she could cast a basic spell immediately.
• Ancient One demonstrated the Sling Ring at the banquet hall, and Harry, Captain America, Sif, Daisy, Natasha, and others failed to open a portal.
• Tony produced an unstable ring of sparks with precise movements but failed to form a spatial passage.
• Gwen used the Sling Ring and instantly opened a stable portal to Grandma Pauline's yard in Queens before quickly closing it.
• Tony dropped his wineglass, Harry gaped, and Gwen remarked that the task did not seem difficult.

Ancient One tested the Cloak of Levitation’s compatibility with the guests, and it chose Gwen Stacy, prompting Peter to reveal that Ancient One wanted her as a disciple. Ancient One confirmed Gwen’s extraordinary magical talent and said she could become a Sorcerer Supreme within three years of studying at Kamar-Taj.

• Ancient One sent the Cloak of Levitation to inspect the guests, and it rejected Tony by striking him and dodging his attempts to capture it.
• The cloak showed interest in Mantis but rejected Wanda, then approached Gwen Stacy and eagerly draped itself over her shoulders.
• Peter revealed that Ancient One intended to take Gwen as her disciple, shocking the people present.
• Ancient One told Gwen that her magical talent surpassed her own youth and that, with diligent study at Kamar-Taj, Gwen could become a Sorcerer Supreme within three years.

Gwen accepted the Ancient One’s offer to train at Kamar-Taj and left Peter to begin her studies. Alone at Parker Manor, Peter learned that Peggy Carter was near death and considered a way to restore her youth, just as the System Shop refreshed.

• Gwen chose to study the supreme arts under the Ancient One after Peter promised to support her decision.
• Peter spent several days with Gwen before taking her to Kamar-Taj, where they agreed she would return home for visits.
• Peter returned to Parker Manor alone and was visited by a haggard Captain America, who said Peggy Carter did not have much time left.
• Peter realized the Horse Talisman could not reverse Carter’s aging and considered combining it with the Dog Talisman and the Ten Rings to turn back time.
• The System announced that its shop had refreshed.

Peter healed Peggy Carter’s hidden injuries and illnesses, then checked the refreshed System Shop for a way to help her and Captain America share a longer life together. He bought Wolf’s War Song and Nine Lives, passed on the Transformation Capsule and Op-Op Fruit for now, and continued browsing while saving enough Sacrifice Points for the Dog Talisman.

• Peter took Captain America to Peggy Carter and used the Horse Talisman to heal her hidden injuries and illnesses.
• Peggy woke and comforted Captain America, while Peter quietly left them together.
• Peter opened the System Shop and saw he had 1,026,400 Sacrifice Points.
• Peter bought Wolf’s War Song for 20,000 Sacrifice Points and decided to save it for Sif or Natasha.
• Peter bought Nine Lives for 100,000 Sacrifice Points after considering its powerful nine-hit technique.
• Peter declined the Transformation Capsule and postponed buying the Op-Op Fruit so he could preserve funds for the Dog Talisman.

Peter bought the Dog Talisman and several other items, then used the talisman on Carter in the hospital. Carter regained her strength and vitality, and Peter prepared to see whether the Ten Rings could complete her rejuvenation.

• Peter passed on Rainbow and the Minotaur King Kuruta skill book, then considered buying Time Rewind.
• Peter bought the Twelve Talismans Selection and chose the Dog Talisman, which granted agelessness, immortality, and eternal vitality.
• Peter spent more Sacrifice Points on the Op-Op Fruit, Rainbow, and Time Rewind, leaving him with 96,400 points.
• Peter returned to Carter's hospital room, brought Felicia there with Aurora's Eye, and had her remove the Ten Rings.
• Peter placed the Dog Talisman in Carter's hand, and its light restored her strength and vitality.
• Peter prepared to test whether the Ten Rings could further help Carter.

Peter used the Dog Talisman, the Ten Rings, and Perfect Lizard Serum to restore Peggy Carter’s youth, with Steve and Felicia watching. Carter awoke in her young body and thanked Peter, who said one crucial step remained.

• Felicia placed the Ten Rings in Carter’s hands, and Peter used their power with the Dog Talisman to strengthen her vitality and extend her life.
• Peter injected Carter with Perfect Lizard Serum and used his Symbiote form to guide the serum’s fusion with her cells.
• Over about an hour, Carter’s age spots, white hair, wrinkles, and weakened body transformed into the appearance of a woman in her early twenties.
• Carter awoke, saw her youthful reflection, and thanked Peter while Steve held her.
• Peter told Carter that one crucial step remained before the operation was complete.

Peter used Apocalypse's power to stabilize Peggy Carter's rejuvenated body and unlock her ability to transform into a silver-scaled lizard, then welcomed her back to S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers. After Peggy and Captain America shared a long-awaited dance, Harry called Peter to Parker Tech to help Doctor Strange.

• Peter used Apocalypse's power to stabilize Carter's cells after taking back the Dog Talisman and Ten Rings.
• Carter discovered she could transform into a lizard with metallic silver scales, and Peter welcomed her back to S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers with Rainbow.
• Captain America invited Carter to dance, and Peter played a waltz as they danced together in the hospital room.
• That night, Captain America and Carter became lovers, while Peter spent a romantic night with Felicia at Parker Manor.
• The next morning, Harry asked Peter to come to Parker Tech and treat Doctor Strange, leaving Peter stunned.

Peter met the desperate Stephen Strange, whose injuries and failed search for treatment had left him destitute, and decided to help him rather than let his life fall apart because of Peter’s actions. He asked Strange whether he wanted to become a superhero, then said that after healing his hands, Strange should return to his former life and perhaps go even further.

• Peter met Strange in Parker Tech’s VIP lounge and used magic to restore the spilled coffee and right the overturned table.
• Strange fell to his knees and begged Peter to heal his hands, then described how a car accident had ended his surgical career and cost him his fortune.
• Peter considered giving Strange the Op-Op Fruit but worried that Strange’s desperate state and arrogance could make the power dangerous.
• Peter asked Strange if he wanted to become a superhero, and Strange agreed to do anything in exchange for healed hands.
• Peter told Strange that once his hands were healed, he should return to his old life and might even take it further.

Stephen Strange vowed to use his surgical skills to help people harmed by accidents, and Peter gave him the Op-Op Fruit. Strange used its power to repair his scarred hands and regained his ability to operate.

• Strange rejected the idea of returning to his old life as a wealthy patients' surgeon and promised Peter he would help people dragged into hardship by accidents.
• Peter gave Strange the Op-Op Fruit, which let him manipulate bodies and objects within a space he created.
• Strange swallowed the fruit despite its revolting taste and awakened its power by creating a small spherical space.
• Peter shaped Senbonzakura into a scalpel, and Strange accidentally severed a finger before discovering he could reattach it without pain or bleeding.
• Strange used the fruit's power to remove scar tissue and glass fragments and restore the nerves and blood vessels in his hands.
• Strange clenched his healed hands and wept with relief as his steadiness returned.