Ever since Gwen had returned to her universe after completing her last TVA mission, she had heard nothing from them.
A whole year had passed without contact.
At first, she thought her Time Tablet had malfunctioned and that she only needed to wait for someone from the TVA to find her.
But as the months passed, she realized something might have happened to the TVA.
Gwen's spirits gradually sank.
During that time, something weighed on her mind every day. She even quit her school band.
Then one day, a villain from a Parallel World appeared downtown.
While stopping the villain, Gwen met members of the Spider-Man Alliance.
The Spider-Man Alliance was much like the TVA. Both organizations existed to keep the Multiverse stable.
But the TVA oversaw far more universes, and its members came from all kinds of worlds.
The Spider-Man Alliance existed only within Sony's Spider-Verse, and every member was a Spider-Man from a different world.
Gwen had joined to find the TVA and learn what had happened.
But she still couldn't find any information about them.
After going on missions with the other Spider-Men, though, she gradually came to believe in the Spider-Man Alliance's purpose.
Day after day, Gwen traveled between worlds to keep the Multiverse at peace, all while waiting for the TVA to come looking for her.
More than half a year passed.
Sometimes she even wondered:
Had everything at the TVA—the Mutants, Wanda, even Leon—just been a particularly vivid dream?
Had she simply woken up and had to return to her own world?
Those thoughts often distracted Gwen during missions.
Fortunately, the Spider-Man Alliance's peacekeeping missions mostly involved traveling to worlds where anomalies had appeared, dealing with them, and capturing them.
The anomalies were usually villains who had accidentally crossed from their own worlds into