Recaps

Miles used his Iron Legion to destroy Farouk’s Shadow King across the Astral Plane, then reunited with Charles Xavier from another universe. After learning what had happened to the academy and Madeleine, Miles promised to bring Madeleine back before Charles returned home.

• Miles forced the Shadow King out of his body and used the Iron Legion to destroy his giant form and hunt down the fragments fleeing across universes.
• A parallel-universe Charles Xavier emerged through a vortex and used his psychic power to destroy the last Shadow King clone.
• Miles recognized Charles, embraced him, and learned that Laura, Rebecca, and Bobby had become senior X-Men while Richter and Rebecca had helped establish Genosha with Erik.
• Charles told Miles that Madeleine had disappeared with Mr. Wade after Miles vanished, and Miles said he had found her in another universe and would bring her back.
• As the vortex collapsed, Miles and Charles said goodbye, and Charles returned to his universe after urging Miles to bring Madeleine to the academy.

Miles and the others defeated Ultron by suppressing his forces and exploiting a backdoor in his code, leaving his Vibranium body dormant. When Miles removed the Mind Stone, it pulled his consciousness into a vision of the universe’s creation and the Stone’s birth.

• Tony, Psylocke, Aurora, Hulk, Steve, and the others attacked Ultron while Miles and the Frost Five Sisters suppressed his psychic control and mechanical army.
• Ultron tried to escape, but Miles used a psychic avatar to make contact with his consciousness and launched an assault with Cerebro and the Spark of the Heart.
• Miles exploited a backdoor Hank Pym had hidden in Ultron’s source code, forcing Ultron’s consciousness into hibernation and allowing Wasp drones to catch his Vibranium body.
• Miles told the others he would hunt down Ultron’s remaining backups, then removed the Mind Stone from Ultron’s forehead.
• The Mind Stone pulled Miles’s consciousness into a vision of Arishem creating the universe, where Miles witnessed the early formation of the six Infinity Stones.

After Miles used the Mind Stone, he awakened powerful Telekinesis and helped stop Hank Pym's damaged Quantum Shuttle from crashing into the group. The survivors left Inverness, and Thor arrived too late to find the battle already over.

• Miles returned the Mind Stone to Ultron and told the others he needed time to process what he had seen, while Psylocke found the gem had no effect on her.
• Miles sensed a spatial disturbance, and the Quantum Shuttle came hurtling toward the group; Tony and Miles combined their efforts to stop it.
• The group found Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne unconscious inside the badly damaged shuttle, and Nick Fury said the government had approached him about a new project.
• Agents took Hank and Janet to the Helicarrier, while Fury and Miles parted on friendly terms and the others prepared to leave.
• Thor arrived in Inverness after everyone had gone and called out to the deserted streets, asking where everyone was.

The author reflected on Volume Four’s character development and plot, explaining the choices behind its conclusion and the problems with its pacing. The author then outlined Volume Five, which would focus on Miles searching for Madeleine through several high-pressure arcs.

• The author explained that Miles’s abilities had broadened during Volume Four, while his psychic power grew to more than five times its previous strength without reaching true Omega-level.
• The author described Volume Four’s loose first half, its difficult plotlines, and how the New York dream invasion and Zombie Universe arc helped restore direction.
• The author said Miles decisively defeated the Shadow King, then let the old bald guy deliver the finishing blow as a nostalgic farewell.
• The author explained that main-universe Thor’s role in the final battle had been shelved and that Thor instead appeared briefly at the end.
• The author announced that Volume Five would center on Miles searching for Madeleine and feature several independent arcs with powerful bosses, including Galactus and Kang.

Doctor Strange came to Essex Corporation seeking treatment for his ruined hands, but Miles offered only a transplant, and Strange left refusing to give up his own. After discussing fate and Strange’s future with Ancient One, Miles learned that Victor von Doom remained off Earth but would return soon.

• Doctor Strange arrived at Essex Corporation, where Miles used a subtle mental influence to earn his trust and examined his medical records.
• Miles showed Strange Essex’s advanced hand-transplant technology, but Strange rejected the procedure because he feared losing his surgical and musical abilities.
• After Strange departed, Miles asked Ancient One why his injury had happened early, and she explained that some events were fixed points in time.
• Miles discussed other destined events with Ancient One and asked about Victor von Doom, whom she confirmed was still in the universe but not on Earth and would return soon.
• Ancient One prepared to leave for another dimension and took Miles’s supplementary Book of Psionics manuscript before departing through a portal.
• Miles lamented that he had focused on the Mind Stone instead of the Space Stone and wished he could use portals.

Thor warned the Avengers that the Infinity Stones could draw danger to Earth, but an alarm interrupted their discussion with news that Hank Pym had disappeared. Miles, secretly waiting in Latveria for Doom, agreed to investigate a strange device connected to Pym’s disappearance and flew toward the scene.

• Thor told the Avengers that the Cosmic Orb was the Power Stone and warned that the Infinity Stones’ appearances could put Earth at risk.
• Thor met Vision and learned from the Avengers about Miles Zero, whom they decided to inform about the danger.
• Nick Fury interrupted the Avengers’ meeting to report that Hank Pym, Janet, Hope van Dyne, and Scott Lang had disappeared.
• Miles received Steve Rogers’s message while in Latveria and examined images of a strange device found in Hank Pym’s San Francisco home.
• Miles recognized that the device might use quantum travel, agreed to join the investigation, and flew toward San Francisco in his blue armor.

Miles tried to locate Hank Pym and the others in the Quantum Realm, but he encountered hostile beings beyond the current spacetime. Their presence triggered a spacetime collapse that expelled Miles from the real dimension.

• Coulson brought Miles to Pym's study, where Tony and Banner determined that Hank Pym, Janet van Dyne, and two others had vanished into the Quantum Realm after an accident with Pym's Miniature Quantum Engine.
• Miles tried to trace the engine's past but found its quantum fluctuations too chaotic, so he proposed using psychic contact and built a Portable Psychic Amplifier.
• Miles sensed cold, malicious gazes while reaching into the Quantum Realm, then followed a trace of Hank Pym's psychic presence to a boundary he could not cross.
• The hostile gazes returned as Pym's Quantum Engine activated on its own and unleashed a violent storm in the study.
• Miles warned Fury that enemies from beyond the current spacetime had found them, but a spacetime distortion collapsed around him and expelled him from the real dimension.

Miles and Aurora entered the Quantum Realm, fought off two hostile creatures, and met Scott Lang with a patrol of locals. Miles agreed to join Scott in searching for Hank Pym and a way out.

• Miles and Aurora arrived in the Quantum Realm and defeated a giant jellyfish and a pink worm that attacked them.
• A patrol of Quantum Realm locals confronted Miles and Aurora until Scott Lang intervened and explained that they feared the pair might work for the Conqueror.
• Miles learned that Scott had been separated from Hope and the others and had befriended the locals by drinking their language-translating Ooze.
• Miles agreed to travel with Scott to search for Hank Pym and find a way out of the Quantum Realm.

Scott Summers received a warning from Jean and discovered that reality was changing, then found Rachel had vanished. In the Quantum Realm, Miles learned the Resistance's connection to Janet van Dyne and spotted an approaching enemy as Jentorra ordered the camp to flee.

• Scott Summers reassured Rachel that he loved her, then received a telepathic warning from Jean to protect her.
• Scott noticed New York changing around him and found Rachel missing when he reached the site of Xavier Community College.
• Miles drank the Quantum Realm's Ooze and learned it connected its inhabitants' thoughts, while Aurora also drank some and then disappeared.
• Quaz and Jentorra reacted with hostility when Miles asked about Janet van Dyne, whom Jentorra accused of helping the Conqueror destroy their home.
• Jentorra ordered the Resistance camp to move, but Miles warned that the enemy was already approaching from the horizon.

Miles and Aurora defended the camp from the Conqueror’s mechanical soldiers, whose technology resisted their psychic abilities. After the Freedom Fighters helped defeat the attackers, Miles captured a fighter jet and confronted MODOK, who immediately switched from threats to flattery.

• Jentorra ordered the camp evacuated as fighter craft approached, and Miles discovered that their quantum technology resisted his psychic infiltration.
• Miles and Aurora fought the mechanical soldiers, and Miles used his Portable Psychic Amplifier to unleash a devastating Telekinetic Storm that forced the enemy to retreat.
• Jentorra rallied the Freedom Fighters to pursue the retreating soldiers, and Aurora confirmed she could not sense or control the robots either.
• The Freedom Fighters defeated most of the mechanical soldiers and captured two fighter jets, while Scott claimed credit for saving one from self-destruction.
• Miles found the fleeing MODOK and confronted him, prompting MODOK to abandon his threats and greet Miles politely.

Miles took control of MODOK and used him to pilot a captured Conqueror fighter, then set course for Axia to find the Pym family. As the fighter left Jentorra’s camp, Miles asked Scott to explain why Hank Pym had built the Quantum Engine that brought them to the Quantum Realm.

• Scott recognized MODOK as Darren Cross, who blamed Scott for his transformation after the Quantum Realm and revealed that the Conqueror had remade him.
• Miles used Mind Control to seize MODOK’s memories and learned that Hank Pym, Janet, and Hope had been seen escaping from Axia.
• Miles wired MODOK into a captured fighter and controlled him to restart its systems, then suspected the Conqueror’s technology used a security key like Ooze.
• Jentorra asked Miles to help fight the Conqueror, but Miles refused and said he would go to Axia to find the Pyms; Jentorra prepared to evacuate her camp.
• Miles explained to Scott that leaving would keep Jentorra’s group safer, then asked Scott to tell him why Hank Pym had built the Quantum Engine.

Miles learned from Scott that Hank Pym’s Quantum Engine had activated uncontrollably, then traced Pym’s trail to Axia and discovered Kang’s forces were preparing for him. After escaping a fighter attack and rescuing MODOK, Miles was surrounded by enemy ships, while Hank Pym, Janet, and Hope encountered Kang at the Probability Storm.

• Scott told Miles that Janet had accidentally activated Hank Pym’s Quantum Engine during an argument about Pym’s secret research and a looming danger in the Quantum Realm.
• Miles suspected the Quantum Engine’s activation had exiled him deliberately and hurried to find Pym, then scanned Axia City and located the trail left by Pym and the others.
• Baron Kaylar learned from Kang that Miles had arrived in his territory and sent forces to capture him, while Kang warned that Miles had once dealt him a devastating blow.
• Miles’s fighter came under attack; Kaylar’s forces disabled MODOK and the fighter, so Miles, Scott, and Aurora rescued MODOK and escaped before the craft crashed.
• Over a hundred armed ships surrounded Miles and his companions in the wilderness.
• At the Probability Storm, Hank Pym realized the Energy Core was absent from his vision of the future and tried to leave with Janet and Hope, but Kang appeared and greeted Janet.

Conqueror Kang forced Janet to accompany him to the battlefield, where Miles and Scott confronted him. Kang revealed that their universe was the main battlefield in a war between countless versions of himself and claimed it would be destroyed unless he regained his power and defeated them.

• Kang defeated Hope, surrounded Janet, Pym, and Hope with mechanical soldiers, and agreed to spare Pym and Hope if Janet went with him.
• Kang revealed that he needed Janet to restore the Energy Core and planned for Scott to enter its Probability Storm, but he left through a portal to deal with Miles.
• Pym and Hope argued about Pym’s secretive plans before giant ants gathered around him in the Quantum Realm.
• Kang arrived on the wilderness battlefield with Janet and mechanical soldiers, and Miles recognized him as Conqueror Kang.
• Kang said he had encountered and disposed of other versions of Miles, then explained that countless Kangs were at war across the Multiverse.
• Kang revealed that their universe was the war’s main battlefield and offered to save it if they helped him regain his full power, while admitting that he would claim the universe afterward.

Miles fought Conqueror Kang with psychic abilities and the Phoenix Force, but Kang’s overwhelming technology and control over time kept him ahead. After Legion erased Kang, Kang’s future self traveled back three seconds, stopped Miles in time, and fired a blast meant to annihilate him.

• Miles and Kang’s telekinesis and force fields canceled each other out, while Miles and his mental-world personalities discussed how to defeat Kang.
• Miles simulated Hawkeye, reinforced his body, and attacked Kang with psychic weapons, but Kang countered his moves and overwhelmed him with energy blasts and force fields.
• Miles activated the Phoenix Brand and shattered Kang’s shield, but Kang escaped the Phoenix Avatar’s charge through spatial transference.
• Miles summoned Legion, whose reality distortion collapsed Kang into a singularity, but Legion sensed that Kang had escaped into the past.
• Kang’s consciousness traveled three seconds back, where he used Time Stasis to freeze Miles before firing a maximum-power blast at him.

After Miles’s death repeatedly unleashed Legion, Conqueror Kang failed to kill him across 115 attempts and finally exiled him through a rift in space-time. Kang then rewound time to stop Scott, Janet, and Aurora from escaping, but Miles stood between them and Kang as they vanished.

• Kang used the Time-Space Eradicator to erase Miles, but Legion appeared and slaughtered him and everyone on the battlefield.
• Across 115 attempts, Kang tried different ways to kill Miles and contain Legion, but Legion killed him whenever Miles died.
• Kang gave up killing Miles and exiled him through a spatial rift, then discovered Scott Lang, Janet van Dyne, and Aurora had escaped their guards.
• Kang rewound time and Aurora and Scott freed Janet, shrinking her with a Pym Particle Dart as they prepared to flee.
• Miles blocked Kang’s Shockwave Blast with a Psionic Barrier while Scott escaped with Janet and Aurora, and Kang activated Time Stasis.

After Kang banished Miles into an unknown space, Aurora reunited with Hank Pym and his family to find a way to reach him. Kang captured them and forced Pym to retrieve the Energy Core, while Aurora secretly coordinated with him as Pym and the others plunged into the Probability Storm.

• Aurora found Hank Pym and Hope with her telepathy and brought them to Janet and Scott, then asked Pym to help rescue Miles.
• Pym analyzed Aurora's recordings and concluded Miles had been sent into an unusual spacetime system, but Kang appeared and trapped the group.
• Kang took everyone to the Probability Storm Area and threatened Janet, then strangled Pym until MODOK persuaded him that Pym could retrieve the Energy Core.
• MODOK gave Pym the Wasp Suit, and Pym secretly coordinated with Aurora, who had taken control of part of his suit's systems as data.
• Pym jumped into the Probability Storm toward the Energy Core, followed by Hope and Scott.

Hank Pym, Scott, Hope, and countless versions of themselves entered the Probability Storm to restore Kang’s Energy Core, while Aurora merged her possible selves to reach Miles. The Pym Particles destabilized the core, and Aurora’s blue beam pierced the chaos, lighting up the past and future.

• Hank Pym, Scott, and Hope encountered countless alternate versions of themselves inside the Probability Storm and learned that reaching the core was deadly.
• Scott watched possible versions of Hope die near the core, then charged toward it himself and disintegrated.
• Pym secretly had Aurora disguise their communications and asked her to simulate Mulpus’s spacetime frequency.
• Countless Auroras merged into Super Aurora, who hurled herself toward Kang’s Energy Core to find Miles.
• Pym called on Scott to release the ants, and the Scotts rode their Anthonys toward the core while the Pyms fired Pym Particle discs at it.
• The Energy Core erupted into a Quantum Storm, and Aurora’s blue light pierced the chaos as the name Miles rang out.

Miles woke in a mental hospital after Conqueror Kang killed him repeatedly across altered timelines, only for Legion to destroy Kang each time. With Aurora trapped in the Quantum Storm and Kang’s time-manipulation energy limited, Miles learned that Kang’s Spacetime Anchor Core could give them a way to defeat him.

• Legion and Mr. Sinister explained that Kang had stopped time and killed Miles over a hundred times, while Legion repeatedly erased Kang in response.
• Legion told Miles that he liked his quieter life as a subordinate personality, then showed him Aurora struggling in the Quantum Storm and explained that she had helped Miles wake.
• Miles asked whether Legion could manipulate time, and decided to let another personality emerge if necessary to counter Kang.
• Legion and Mr. Sinister explained that Kang’s golden Energy Core was a Spacetime Anchor that let him transcend the timeline, and that his time-travel energy could not be restored by changing the past.
• Legion and Mr. Sinister told Miles to take the Spacetime Anchor Core as their way to defeat Kang.

Miles returned from the Time Rift, defeated Kang in the wasteland, and learned that another Kang had taken Janet by traveling through time. Miles opened a passage to the past so Scott, Hope, Pym, and MODOK could pursue Kang across multiple timelines while he stayed behind to anchor their route.

• The shrinking Quantum Storm left Pym with Kang's Energy Core, but Kang arrived and captured Aurora.
• Miles emerged from a wormhole, attacked Kang with the Phoenix Avatar, and killed him with a Phoenix-powered Psionic Spear after Aurora used the Energy Core to free Miles from Time Stasis.
• Miles explained that Kang could travel through time, then another Kang appeared and abducted Janet from the ruins before Miles could stop him.
• Pym revealed that Janet had Quantum Perception and had helped Kang repair the Energy Core, while Aurora explained how she had used its controls to free Miles.
• Miles used the Energy Core, Aurora, and a Spacetime Anchor to open a vortex into the past, sending Pym, Scott, Hope, and MODOK to help his past self fight Kang across multiple timelines.

Miles and Ant-Man’s team pursued Kang through repeated timelines as he tried to reach an Energy Core and escape his pursuers. After seventeen failed attempts, Kang returned to the moment he first arrived in the Quantum Realm and killed his past self, leaving Pym, Scott, Hope, and MODOK to confront him without Miles.

• Scott shrank Miles to save him from Kang, while Kang discovered his future self with Janet and pursued them into the Probability Storm.
• Scott, Pym, Hope, and MODOK followed Kang through time, and MODOK helped bring the current Kang face-to-face with his future self before the future Kang escaped.
• The chase repeated across many timelines, with Miles and the team stopping Kang in different ways, including one attempt in which Miles detonated the Energy Core.
• After seventeen attempts, Kang traveled back to the moment he first entered the Quantum Realm and killed his weakened past self as Janet watched.
• Kang confronted Pym, Scott, Hope, and MODOK, who prepared for battle with enlarged ants and charged him.

Scott, Pym, Janet, Hope, and MODOK turned Kang’s damaged Energy Core into a weapon by activating it inside the Probability Storm. The storm multiplied them and brought forth countless Kangs, who began attacking one another, while the heroes watched the conflict unfold.

• Scott and the ants attacked Kang, but Kang’s force field repelled their assaults and he defeated Hope, Scott, and Pym in turn.
• Pym realized Kang feared the Probability Storm and asked the two Janets to help activate the damaged Energy Core; meanwhile, Hope and MODOK found the core aboard Kang’s ship.
• Scott and the ants passed the Energy Core across the battlefield until Janet took it, and Pym forced it to activate with a Pym Particle Dart.
• The Energy Core unleashed a quantum flood that pulled Scott, Pym, Janet, Hope, MODOK, and Kang into the Probability Storm, where they multiplied into countless versions.
• The multiplied Kangs attacked one another, and Janet, Scott, and the others watched as the war between Kangs began.

The Probability Storm ended with Kang as its sole survivor, but two mysterious time travelers arrived and took him away. Miles learned about the visitors and sensed that time was becoming crowded with travelers, while his unfamiliarity with them stirred a hole in his memory.

• Kang fought through the Probability Storm and survived, only for Hank Pym to knock him down and threaten to imprison him.
• Kang fired his supposedly dead Shockwave Gauntlet at Pym, but a hulking stranger's white barrier absorbed the blast.
• Two orange-and-black suited strangers took Kang through a space-time vortex, while Pym and the others prepared to help Janet return to her own time.
• Miles sensed numerous travelers moving through Hypertime, then heard from Pym and Scott that two strangers had rescued Kang.
• Miles recognized something familiar about the visitors but could not recall what it was, and Pym decided the group should return using Kang's ship.

Miles and the others escaped the Quantum Realm and learned that multiple Kangs threatened Earth, but they returned to find their world already transformed by another Kang. Nathaniel Richards had become president and taken control of the Avengers, the Department of Defense, and S.W.O.R.D.

• Janet activated Kang’s control system with the Energy Core while Aurora analyzed his technology, and Pym told Miles that he had seen a gathering of beings resembling Kangs and had returned to the Quantum Realm to investigate their threat.
• Miles revealed that Kang had said the Multiversal Kangs would make Earth their battlefield, so Pym urged Janet to finish opening a portal home.
• Scott, Pym, Janet, Hope, and Miles returned through the portal, while MODOK and Lord Krylar celebrated Kang’s defeat and plotted to take over his kingdom.
• MODOK discovered that Miles had taken the Energy Core from the Time Engine and roared in anger.
• At Pym’s house, Miles sensed that the world had changed and showed the others a broadcast announcing that Nathaniel Richards had become president and brought the Avengers under the Department of Defense.

Miles investigated the unfamiliar world after returning from another dimension and discovered that it had been overwritten, changing familiar people and organizations. After uncovering Nathaniel Essex’s secret Mutant experiments, Miles learned that Hydra had attacked the New Avengers Base and set out to intervene, despite Steve Rogers being a Hydra member in this world.

• President Richards received a census report on superhumans, then spoke with Kang, who warned him to capture Hank Pym and Miles Zero and contain a dangerous personality within Miles.
• Louise told President Richards that Hydra had attacked the New Avengers headquarters.
• Miles visited Essex Biotech and confirmed with Hank Pym that their dimensional travel had apparently brought them to a radically altered version of their world.
• Miles confronted Nathaniel Essex, overwhelmed his psychic defenses, and uncovered evidence of illegal Mutant experiments and secret projects with the Department of Defense.
• Miles learned from Nathaniel’s memories that reality had been overwritten and that Hydra was an underground resistance organization; he also discovered Hydra had attacked the New Avengers Base and taken important personnel and facilities.
• Miles learned that Steve Rogers was a Hydra member in this world and rushed off with Aurora to save the captives.

Steve Rogers and his Hydra allies were ambushed by Tony Stark and the Avengers while transporting two sealed pods, and the groups clashed on the Robert Moses Bridge. Miles confronted Selene in the cargo compartment, learned she knew him from before, and discovered that she believed President Nathaniel Richards was behind the altered reality; Miles already suspected Richards was only one source.

• Bucky Barnes drove Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Rumlow, and Selene toward Montauk Point with two sedated captives secured in the truck.
• Tony Stark and the Avengers attacked the truck, and Steve, Bucky, Sam, and Rumlow fought back after Steve declared, "Hail Hydra!"
• Miles entered the wrecked cargo compartment, where Selene trapped him inside her Shadow Domain and revealed that she recognized him from a previous encounter.
• Miles overwhelmed Selene's Shadow Domain with his psychic power, while Aurora used Spatial Lockdown to immobilize her.
• Miles released Selene after she offered information about the altered world, and she identified President Nathaniel Richards as its source.
• Miles told Selene that Richards might be only one of several sources behind the new reality covering their world.