Chapter Summaries

Selina tested Charles and Storm by asking whether they remembered Spider-Man, but Charles had already read the question from her mind and arranged their denial in advance. Batman noticed their answers seemed rehearsed, yet Charles redirected him with a question about mutants, and Batman forgot why he had looked toward Cyborg.

• Selina asked Charles and Storm whether they remembered Spider-Man, the hero whose home they had destroyed.
• Charles and Storm pretended not to know Spider-Man, and Selina concluded that Yongye had been mistaken.
• The chapter revealed that Charles had read Selina's thoughts twenty minutes earlier and instructed Storm how to respond.
• Batman grew suspicious of their natural-sounding denials and considered asking Cyborg to search for Spider-Man.
• Charles read Batman's thoughts and asked for his views on mutants, causing Batman to forget why he had looked at Cyborg.

During the talks at Xavier School, Charles secretly used telepathy to cover Batman’s suspicions, while Yongye watched from outside. Yongye then sensed a barely living Spider-Man-like presence beneath the school and entered the sealed cellar where it lay.

• Charles led a forty-minute discussion with Batman and the others while repeatedly overlaying Batman’s thoughts about investigating the local network.
• Batman forgot why he had tried to signal Cyborg, and Charles also redirected Selina’s suspicion that Bruce was acting strangely.
• Yongye watched the meeting from outside, amused as Charles suppressed Batman’s repeated suspicions.
• Clear Sword Heart alerted Yongye to a faint presence beneath Xavier School that matched Spider-Man, including a spider-monster version.
• Yongye’s Wood Clone vanished from the sky and emerged through a fissure in a sealed cellar beneath the school, where someone lay on an iron bed.

Yongye used his Sharingan to uncover Peter Parker’s memories of the X-Men destroying his Earth during a doomed attempt to stop a multiversal incursion. He left Peter asleep and decided to exploit the revelation to seek justice and destroy the other Earth.

• Yongye found Peter Parker restrained in a cellar and used genjutsu to make him reveal his memories.
• Peter recalled that the X-Men’s superweapon destroyed part of the moon and set off a chain of disasters that wrecked his universe and solar system.
• Peter said he escaped through a dimensional rift and was captured by Charles, who kept urging him to forget his past and start over.
• Yongye marked Peter with a spatial seal and put him back to sleep, promising to expose the X-Men and destroy their Earth.
• Yongye sensed Charles speaking with Thor upstairs and decided to fan the flames while Charles continued his own game.

The X-Men planned to stop the multiversal incursion by destroying the other Earth, but first they needed to eliminate Yongye, whose retaliation could threaten their world. Jean proposed using Rogue and Blink in a honey trap, with Rogue’s power striking Yongye and Blink escaping with her.

• Jean explained that one of the speedsters could be used to send the other universe’s Earth into a near-light-speed collision.
• Scott and Hank said destroying the other Earth was their only chance to save their own universe.
• Charles and the others agreed that Yongye had to be dealt with before the attack because he would retaliate.
• Jean revealed that she had secretly tested Yongye and believed even her full Phoenix Force might not defeat him directly.
• Jean proposed using Rogue and Blink in a honey trap, then having Rogue kill Yongye with her ability while Blink took her to safety.