Chapter Summaries

Harry Osborn, Dr. Otto, and Twilight formed an alliance to recover the Time Controllers and oppose Psypoint and Spider-Man. After Miles woke and warned Peter that their allies might target loved ones, Kraven kidnapped Gwen, and Harry demanded the Time Controller at the Osborn Building.

• Harry, Dr. Otto, and Twilight agreed to cooperate, recruit Adrian Toomes, Alexei Sytsevich, Sergei Kravinoff, and Curt Connors, and cause trouble for Psypoint through the government.
• Miles woke after two days in Peter's train-car laboratory and learned that Harry had exposed the Atomic Energy Laboratory, forcing Aurora to destroy its research data.
• Miles warned Peter that Twilight might target Gwen and Aunt May, while Aurora monitored them and Miles and Peter repaired their equipment and discussed ways to stop the alliance.
• Peter agreed to give Miles a blood sample in exchange for Miles helping Harry recover from the Spider-Venom, and Miles began analyzing Peter's blood and genetics.
• Kraven kidnapped Gwen after her Oxford University interview, and Harry called Peter to demand the Time Controller at the Osborn Building.
• Miles gave Peter an insulated Web-Shooter, and the two headed to the Osborn Building to confront Harry.

Kurt Connors returned home and reunited with Martha and Billy, while Miles and Spider-Man confronted Harry Osborn at Osborn Building. Norman Osborn rescued Gwen from her fall, but Harry had injected her with venom, leaving Miles and Peter racing to save her as Harry learned his father was alive.

• Kurt Connors returned to Martha and Billy, promised he would stay with them, and refused Harry Osborn’s invitation to work for the Osborn Group.
• Miles and Spider-Man confronted Harry, Doctor Octopus, Kraven, Twilight, and Vulture at Osborn Building, where Harry threatened Gwen and Aunt May to obtain the Time Controller.
• Miles’s drones stopped Rhino from attacking Aunt May, and Miles threatened the group with a disabled missile and the prospect of a second launch.
• Harry injected Gwen with Spider-Venom and threw her from the tower; Miles pursued her while Spider-Man was held back by Harry and Vulture.
• Norman Osborn arrived in Life-Support Armor and caught Gwen, but Miles warned that the venom had left her in critical condition.
• Spider-Man struck Harry and restrained his urge to kill him before he and Miles carried Gwen away, while Harry laughed with Vulture about Norman’s return.

Harry, Dr. Otto Octavius, and their allies forced open a spacetime passage at Oscorp Tower, plunging New York into darkness and chaos. Peter left the critically ill Gwen to confront them, while Miles returned with a Spider Serum and injected it into her.

• Vulture and Twilight stopped the second missile from striking Oscorp Tower, but Dr. Otto Octavius proposed using a damaged Time Controller to open an uncontrolled passage and draw Peter and the others back.
• At the hospital, Norman Osborn told Peter and Miles that Spider-Venom was destroying Gwen’s genes, and Gwen urged Peter to go stop the danger at Oscorp Tower.
• Dr. Otto Octavius activated the experiment, sending a pillar of energy skyward and triggering widespread power failures; Peter left Gwen in Norman’s care and headed for the tower.
• Doctor Connors prepared an improved Lizard Enhancement Serum and told Billy he was going to be a hero, while Spider-Man reached Oscorp Tower and defeated Vulture before Harry, Twilight, and Kraven overwhelmed him.
• Miles returned to the hospital with a Spider Serum made from Peter’s blood and injected it into Gwen, hoping it would neutralize the venom.

Miles fought to stop Doctor Octopus's out-of-control spacetime experiment, but Twilight sabotaged the collider and forced Miles to enter the Spacetime Storm with the last Time Controller. The storm vanished, and Miles awoke in a strange space before Loki, God of Stories.

• Miles arrived at Osborn Building, drove back Harry and Twilight, and reunited Peter with a recovered Gwen, who became Spider-Gwen.
• Peter, Gwen, and Miles fought the Vulture, Kraven the Hunter, and Twilight while Norman Osborn captured Harry.
• Miles used his psychic power and two Time Controllers to restrain the Spacetime Energy, but Twilight sabotaged the collider and Doctor Octopus broke free.
• The Lizard attacked Doctor Octopus as the Time Controllers exploded, and Miles entered the Spacetime Storm with the final controller to contain it.
• The storm collapsed, Peter found no trace of Miles, and Miles awoke in a strange realm where Loki, God of Stories, addressed him as Mr. Miles Zero.

Miles met Loki, who explained that Miles had diverted from his destined path by entering the Spider-Man universe and that a multiversal crisis awaited him. Loki offered to return him to the X-Men universe or erase his Spider-Man-world memories so he could continue toward that crisis, and Miles chose to move forward.

• Miles asked Loki whether the TVA wanted him, and Loki explained that Miles had entered the wrong universe and changed Gwen Stacy’s fate.
• Loki told Miles that his memories of another world were only one possibility of time and that he was part of the multiverse.
• Loki said Miles was destined to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe and take part in a multiversal crisis he could not explain.
• Loki offered to send Miles home or erase his memories of the Spider-Man universe so he could pursue his destiny.
• Miles asked why he was chosen, and Loki said every other Miles Zero was a lunatic who wanted to destroy the world.
• Miles chose to continue forward.

The author explained why Volume Three failed, declared it a wrong-timeline detour, and planned to reset Miles before beginning the Marvel Cinematic Universe arc. After a break and revisions to Volume Two, regular updates resumed with Chapter Eighty-Four.

• The author said Miles's out-of-character actions were the root of Volume Three's problems and that the volume could not be repaired.
• The author explained that Black Spirit and the other major plotlines had been planned from the start, then described alternatives considered for Miles's variant.
• The author said Loki reset Miles and that Volume Three would be labeled "Wrong Timeline" and could be skipped without affecting the story.
• The author announced a break of more than a week but less than two to revise Volume Two and prepare the Marvel Cinematic Universe arc.
• The author reported that Volume Two's revisions were online, including new Madeleine scenes and Miles receiving Phoenix Serum.
• The author announced that regular updates had resumed and Chapter Eighty-Four would go live that night.

Miles arrived in the Marvel Universe during the Battle of New York, where he used his psychic and telekinetic powers to fight Chitauri while concealing his presence. He was ambushed by Cassandra Nova, but the Ancient One intervened and restrained her.

• Miles woke in a 2012 New York with Aurora's main consciousness transferred into his X Terminal and recognized the Chitauri invasion as the Battle of New York.
• Miles watched Captain America Steve Rogers organize a defense, then used psychic powers and telekinesis to disable Chitauri and erase witnesses' memories.
• Miles saved a mother and her son from Chitauri, made the boy promise to keep the encounter secret, and sent him to sleep.
• Miles decided to wait before pursuing the Mind Scepter, erased records of his arrival from New York's digital networks, and encountered Cassandra Nova through a portal.
• Cassandra Nova invaded Miles's mind searching for Charles and the Phoenix mark, but the Ancient One arrived and restrained her with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak.

Ancient One and Miles fought Cassandra Nova and her allies as an invasion overwhelmed New York, then pursued Cassandra into the Astral Plane. Ancient One sealed Cassandra but was weakened after confronting the Shadow King, who escaped; she collapsed after returning to her body.

• Ancient One drove Cassandra into the Mirror Dimension, while Miles helped Wong defeat Orgo and Spectrum Doctor and mentally turned the Chitauri attackers against one another.
• Cassandra returned and attacked Miles, explaining that Madeleine had entered the Void with Wolverine and Deadpool before Cassandra sent her into another dimension.
• Ancient One trapped Cassandra with the Seven Rings Unified Formation, but Cassandra destroyed her physical body and escaped into the Astral Plane.
• Ancient One took Miles into the Astral Plane, where they battled and weakened Cassandra while preparing the Seal of the Vishanti.
• The Shadow King ambushed them, but Ancient One swallowed and expelled him; he fled, and she sealed Cassandra into a small sphere of light.
• Back in the alley, Ancient One told Wong that the Shadow King had escaped, then collapsed before she could finish speaking to Miles.

After the Ancient One recovered, she allowed Miles Zero access to Kamar-Taj’s magical texts but refused to directly teach him. Miles went to Stark Tower to pursue the Mind Scepter, where the Shadow King possessed Agent Rumlow and attacked him, until Captain America arrived.

• Hamir purified Miles of Spirit Parasites, and Mordo reported that the Chitauri invasion had ended but at least a hundred beings had entered Earth from other dimensions.
• The Ancient One woke, thanked Miles for helping against Cassandra, and let him study Kamar-Taj’s books while warning that she could not directly guide his path.
• The Ancient One told Hamir that Miles had arrived through the River of Time and was too perceptive to predict whether he could become a wizard.
• At Stark Tower, Miles watched Rumlow’s team carry the Mind Scepter away, then attacked the vehicle after the Shadow King possessed Rumlow and invaded his mind.
• Miles stopped the vehicle with his psychic power, and the clash between him and the Shadow King caused people nearby, including Clint and Natasha, to collapse in pain.
• Steve Rogers arrived, shielded Miles, and confronted Rumlow while enduring the psychic battle.

Miles confronted the Shadow King during the chaos over the stolen Mind Scepter, but discovered the briefcase was a decoy and escaped after freezing the memories and movements of the agents who found him. As Fury and Tony investigated the psychic attack, Miles stole Stark Group technical data and decided to find a safe base to strengthen himself before the Shadow King returned.

• Steve Rogers fought through the Shadow King's controlled agents, but a crowd of mind-controlled civilians trapped him while the disguised Shadow King escaped with the briefcase.
• Miles confronted the Shadow King in an alley, crushed his escaping psychic energy, and found the briefcase empty.
• Police and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents surrounded Miles, but he stopped them with his psychic power and left after erasing their memories.
• Fury and Steve concluded that an unknown enemy could control crowds without the Mind Scepter, while Tony began considering ways to counter psychic attacks.
• Tony discovered a gap in JARVIS's recollection of a figure in the tower footage, but Miles had already erased records of his presence and copied Stark Group technical data.
• Miles told Aurora that he needed a stronghold where he could turn the stolen technology into greater strength before the Shadow King resurfaced.

Miles Zero joined Hammer Group to develop autonomous drone weapons while concealing his powers and manipulating the research center’s director. Elsewhere, Sebastian Shaw met diamond-skinned Phoebe Frost and asked whether she was related to Emma Frost.

• Miles Zero persuaded Justine Hammer that his Hive drone warfare plan could transform modern warfare, and Justine hired him for Hammer Group.
• Miles explained that he chose Hammer because Tony Stark had abandoned weapons development, while his apparent credentials and academic history were fabricated into reality through his powers.
• At the Hammer Group R&D center, Olson Jones dismissed Miles’s ideas and assigned him excessive work, so Miles used telepathy to make Olson obey and ordered him to assemble staff and build a drone prototype.
• Miles discussed Hammer Group’s shortcomings with Aurora, planned to upgrade his designs using Chitauri and Stark technology, and examined an energy prism taken from the Spectrum Doctor.
• Phoebe Frost used her powers to turn a group of men against one another, then diamondized her skin and knocked out the last attacker.
• Sebastian Shaw approached Phoebe, recognized a resemblance to an old friend, asked about her connection to Emma Frost, and introduced himself as a newcomer to the world.

S.H.I.E.L.D. agents responded to a telepathic plea from Sophie Frost, but Sebastian Shaw and Phoebe overwhelmed them and erased their memories. Meanwhile, Miles developed a way to cast spells using his own psychic power and successfully created a Psionic Ring.

• Coulson's Team reached a Boston church orphanage, where Sophie Frost asked them for help against her sister Phoebe and Sebastian Shaw.
• Sophie explained that she and Phoebe were two of the Stepford Cuckoos, and warned that their enemies planned to use Phoebe to find the other sisters.
• Shaw defeated Ward, while Phoebe used her magnetic power to disarm Coulson and May; Sophie agreed to leave with them to protect the agents.
• Sophie secretly shielded Skye's mental reactions and asked her to contact the Avengers, as Phoebe erased the other agents' memories.
• Miles nearly lost control after perceiving Raggadorr's power, then discussed his magical limits and Madeleine's disappearance with The Ancient One.
• Miles realized he could use his psychic power as a spell's energy source and successfully created a blue Psionic Ring.

Miles helped Justine Hammer present the Hive combat system to military representatives, then met his new assistant, Esme Frost. At S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony joined a briefing about the Hellfire Club’s plan to use the Frost sisters’ shared psychic network to manipulate nations, and Hank McCoy offered anti-psychic headbands for the rescue mission.

• Justine Hammer demonstrated the Hive platform and its Hornet drones to military representatives, while Miles challenged Tony Stark and explained that he wanted to build his reputation and recruit researchers.
• The military proposed a combat exercise between Colonel Rhodes’s War Machine and the Hive system, and Miles said the swarm’s coordinated Hive Mind could defeat it.
• Justine introduced Miles to his new assistant, Esme Frost, and Miles said they would get along well.
• Tony joined Nick Fury, Captain America Steve, Hawkeye Clint, Black Widow Natasha, and other agents for a briefing on the Hellfire Club and its captive Sophie Frost.
• Fury explained that the Frost Five Sisters shared a Hive Mind capable of manipulating nations, and Hank McCoy presented headbands designed to block psychic intrusions.

Psylocke killed Murakami and Alexandra at The Hand headquarters before tracking down Miles and Esme, who revealed that the Hellfire Club was hunting her and her four clone sisters. Psylocke attacked them, but Miles resisted her psychic assault and countered her weapons with his own abilities; after learning his name, she prepared to fight him seriously.

• Psylocke slaughtered The Hand's ninjas, killed Murakami and Alexandra, and left to find Miles.
• Miles confronted Esme about how she had found him, and she explained that she had sensed a gap in his Psychic Shielding.
• Esme revealed that Sebastian Shaw's Hellfire Club was hunting her and her four clone sisters, the Stepford Cuckoos, and Miles agreed to shelter her.
• Psylocke appeared and attacked Miles and Esme with a psychic blast, leaving Esme injured while Miles withstood the assault.
• Psylocke attacked Miles with a psionic whip, but he used physical enhancement to pull her toward him and forced her to disengage.
• Miles formed psionic armguards, and after hearing his name, Psylocke drew both swords and prepared to fight him seriously.

Miles defeated Psylocke, sealed her psychic abilities, and learned that the Black King planned to establish a Mutant kingdom with the Frost Five Sisters. When Aurora discovered S.H.I.E.L.D. was preparing to attack the Hellfire Club in France, Miles recognized several variant Mutants among the team and flew out to intervene.

• Psylocke attacked Miles, but he held her off with psionic abilities and Wasp drones until she surrendered; he sealed her telepathy and brought her and Esme to his research center.
• Psylocke told Miles that Shaw planned to use the Frost Five Sisters to establish a Mutant kingdom in Eastern Europe, and that S.H.I.E.L.D. was preparing to raid the Hellfire Club in France.
• Aurora revealed that the S.H.I.E.L.D. team included Kitty Pryde, Remy Étienne LeBeau, Laura Kinney, and Hank McCoy, while Psylocke named several powerful Mutants allied with Shaw.
• Miles asked Psylocke for Shaw's communicator, then armored up at the underground platform and flew toward the Hellfire Club.

Miles overcame the Shadow King's intrusion into his mind and continued toward Western Europe, where S.H.I.E.L.D.'s rescue mission at the Hellfire Club turned into a confrontation with Sebastian Shaw and his allies. The chapter ended with France threatening military action against the Helicarrier as the operation escalated.

• Miles recognized that Shadow King had infiltrated his mind, then destroyed the mental illusion with his awakened will.
• Miles cleared lingering psychic phantoms from his mind and agreed with Aurora that he should try to meet the X-Men from the other universe.
• Tony Stark detected an unfamiliar AI interfering with the Helicarrier's systems while the strike team approached the Hellfire Club.
• Sophie rejected Phoebe's plan to manipulate the dinner guests, and Phoebe slapped her before leaving the room.
• Kitty rescued Sophie from the manor, but Black Bishop Harry Leland, Phoebe, and Polaris stopped the escape until the agents used tear gas to break Leland's hold.
• Selene drained Natasha's strength, and Sebastian Shaw arrived with seven allies as Steve Rogers's team faced the Hellfire Club; Nick Fury then learned that France had threatened military action.

The Hellfire Club overwhelmed S.H.I.E.L.D. and the X-Men, with Sebastian Shaw stealing Tony Stark’s Arc Reactor and leaving Tony critically injured. As Sophie Frost prepared to surrender, a powerful psychic force disrupted Shaw’s attack, and an unidentified silver-armored figure crashed onto the battlefield.

• Tony Stark entered the battle in his Mark 17 armor and freed Sophie Frost from Selene Gallio’s shadow restraints.
• Hawkeye Clint struck Polaris with an explosive arrow, but Sebastian Shaw and Selene immobilized Tony and stole his Arc Reactor.
• Shaw attacked the trapped Tony while Selene drained Hank’s life force and subdued Shadowcat; Sophie Frost prepared to leave with Shaw.
• A powerful psychic presence controlled Shaw and overwhelmed Phoebe Frost, while Selene recognized the psychic power as familiar.
• An unidentified silver-gray armored figure crashed into the battlefield, leaving Nick Fury unsure who had arrived.

Miles arrived in Psypoint Armor and turned the battle against the Hellfire Club, rescuing Tony Stark and defeating Sebastian Shaw. After leaving the battlefield, he met Doctor Doom, who revealed that he needed help from Miles Zero of the 10005 Time Stream.

• Miles unleashed a psychic storm that incapacitated the Hellfire Knights and defeated Polaris, while Hawkeye knocked out Callisto.
• Miles fought Shaw and Selene with psychic abilities and the Prism Staff, escaped Selene’s Shadow Kingdom using Phoenix Energy, and reached the critically wounded Tony Stark.
• Miles protected Tony with an energy barrier, used psychic power to keep him alive, and helped Coulson remove him from the damaged Iron Man Armor.
• Miles destroyed Shaw with an electromagnetic blast after Selene saved him once, then left with the S.H.I.E.L.D. team as Fury learned that several allies needed urgent medical care.
• Miles followed an unusual communication signal to an abandoned French manor, where Doctor Doom identified him as Miles Zero from the 10005 Time Stream and asked for his help.

Doctor Doom asked Miles to help build technology for a journey back to the day Galactus destroyed his universe, offering records that might help Miles find Madeleine. Miles returned to the Helicarrier, helped Aurora perform a successful operation on Tony Stark, and then prepared to treat the other victims.

• Doctor Doom revealed that Galactus had destroyed his homeland and asked Miles to help him develop a cross-universe gate, offering records of Madeleine's banishment in exchange.
• Doctor Doom removed his mask after Miles left, revealing a face identical to Tony Stark's.
• Miles returned to the Helicarrier and insisted that Nick Fury let him into the operating room to save Tony Stark.
• Miles and Aurora used Psychic Arts and medical robots to remove Tony's shrapnel and stabilize him in a successful operation.
• Miles asked Fury to take him to the other victims, then met Captain America Steve Rogers outside the operating room.

Miles treated the weakened Mutants with a vitality-restoring solution and met the newly awakened Hank, who learned Miles was a genetic descendant of Charles from another world. After hearing the refugees’ story and agreeing to help the captured Mutants selectively, Miles left to speak with Nick Fury while Hank considered his potential role among this world’s Mutants.

• Miles explained that black magic had drained vitality from Hank, Kitty, and Natasha, then made Solution Number Twelve to aid their recovery and instructed Simmons to prepare diluted batches.
• Hank woke and recognized the X Terminal as his own design, learned Miles had used his blueprints, and discovered through Miles’s telepathy that Miles was Charles’s genetic descendant.
• Miles told Hank and Laura how his world’s Mutants had fallen, while Laura thanked him for saving Hank and Kitty and Remy joked with him about his battle against Shaw and Selene.
• Hank, Laura, and Remy revealed that Sentinels had exterminated their world’s Mutants and that Logan’s attempt to change the past had failed; Hank asked Miles to help the captured Polaris, Black Bishop, and Cuckoos.
• Miles agreed to try to help those he chose to save, then left to find Nick Fury, while Hank told Remy that the Mutants of this world needed a new king.