Chapter Summaries

Yang Ming and the others found Drake’s underground laboratory, where neural spikes were allowing symbiote tissue to take over kidnapped people. After rescuing some victims, Yang Ming headed deeper toward the Main Control Room as more containment pods opened.

• Yang Ming stopped Thor from smashing into the warehouse and led the group through an old subway passage to a hidden laboratory.
• The group found six kidnapped people implanted with neural spikes, and Yang Ming realized the experiment was a takeover rather than tissue rejection.
• When the subjects transformed and attacked, Gwen Stacy cut the power while Yang Ming, Peter, and Venom subdued them and broke several spikes.
• Venom heard Crimson Thorn warn against completing the fusion, and Yang Ming confirmed that some of the victims could still be saved.
• As more containment pods began opening, Yang Ming ordered Peter to protect the injured and went to find the Main Control Room.

Yang Ming and Peter disrupted Drake’s attempt to make Harry sign a patent transfer and treated Harry after Drake injected him with a parasitic substance. Harry survived the restructuring and showed new strength, while Absolute Slaughter’s group retreated and Drake escaped.

• Yang Ming broke into the research center, stopped Harry from signing the agreement, and confronted Drake over the injured patients.
• Drake injected Harry and released four test subjects, but Yang Ming disabled the parasites while Peter restrained Drake.
• Absolute Slaughter arrived and tried to take Harry, while Gwen Stacy used an acoustic device to help Peter hold off her allies.
• Yang Ming injected Harry with a medicine that halted the neural invasion and restored his heart function, and Harry regained consciousness.
• Harry struck Blade Hunter with newfound strength, Absolute Slaughter ordered a retreat, and Drake escaped through the Secret Elevator.
• Yang Ming recorded Harry’s emergency treatment fee, and Harry asked whether he could pay in installments.

Corruption took control of Drake and redirected a Life Foundation rocket launch to send a signaling device into space. Harry’s symbiote fusion repaired his heart and severed the hive connection, while Absolute Slaughter’s group abandoned their hunt and began preparing for the launch.

• Corruption took over Drake’s body, discovered the Life Foundation’s satellite mission, and ordered the launch moved up.
• Yang Ming confirmed that Harry’s symbiote cells were under his control, had repaired his heart, and no longer required Spider-Man’s blood.
• Harry learned his hereditary condition had stopped progressing, embraced Peter, and began adjusting to his new strength.
• Yang Ming warned George to keep officers away from Drake while he prioritized protecting the wounded.
• Absolute Slaughter received Corruption’s launch plan and ordered the symbiotes to retrieve their tissue and go into hiding.
• Absolute Slaughter’s group prepared to disable the rocket’s safety restrictions and gather information for the approaching spacecraft.

After his surgery, Harry returned home and began taking responsibility for his strength and his father’s legacy. He sealed the serum for Yang Ming to destroy, removed the armor’s forced-control systems, and registered the armor as Nightcrawler.

• Harry practiced handling objects without crushing them, then asked Yang Ming to destroy his unused experimental serum and went home with Peter.
• Harry assured Peter he would keep his phone on, then entered the Underground Laboratory and sent his lawyer instructions to prioritize compensation while asking recipients whether they wanted help.
• Harry sealed the serum and remaining ampoules in a transport case and asked Yang Ming to destroy them.
• Harry removed the armor’s injection chamber and Neural Locking Node, tested its remaining systems, and arranged to practice with Peter.
• Harry told Peter he wanted to help people without expecting forgiveness, and Peter suggested they practice stopping before throwing punches.
• Harry registered the armor under the name Nightcrawler.

Harry trained to control his mutated whip and prepared his armor as Fisk moved against the Osborn company and threatened his friends. Peter brought Harry, Gwen Stacy, and Felicia to the group’s hideout, where they learned Fisk had recruited five modified operatives, and Frank began assessing the newcomers.

• Harry practiced controlling his whip, and Yang Ming recorded that the mutation appeared after Harry’s hive connection was severed.
• Harry prepared his armor as the Osborn company’s lawyer reported that Fisk had acquired supplier debts, pressured shareholders and banks, and sent people to block a warehouse.
• Kingpin threatened Harry in a video, while Yang Ming told him to stay away from the warehouse and find whoever attacked the workers; Matt warned Peter that Fisk had returned with five people.
• Peter brought Harry, Gwen Stacy, and Felicia to the hideout, where Frank challenged his decision to bring newcomers without consulting the others.
• The group watched a recording of Kingpin targeting them and learned that the five operatives he recruited had undergone Ten Rings Modification.

Yang Ming organized a mission to rescue dock workers, stop Kingpin, and recover his ledgers without using Frank’s explosives. As the rookies fought Kingpin’s modified soldiers, Harry’s Nightcrawler Armor helped turn the battle, while the Life Foundation accelerated its rocket launch and trapped its employees.

• Yang Ming closed Frank’s C-4 case and set a 1:17 a.m. plan to evacuate the workers, recover evidence, and withdraw after fifteen minutes.
• Harry joined the team’s plan to draw the modified soldiers’ fire, while Felicia agreed to infiltrate Kingpin’s command room and copy his ledgers.
• At the Life Foundation facility, Corruption advanced the launch countdown to twelve hours, and Absolute Slaughter ordered that employees attempting to leave be killed.
• Frank’s shot at Kingpin was stopped and redirected by a modified soldier, and the returning fire forced Damon and Mindy to take cover.
• A gravity-modified soldier pinned Peter down, but Harry arrived as Nightcrawler and used a sonic blast to free him.
• Harry caught the liquid-metal soldier’s axe with his armored, symbiote-covered arm and punched the cyborg through shipping containers as the team continued fighting.

The heroes fought to save Cold Storage workers as Kingpin’s explosives triggered and the Docks began collapsing. Kingpin escaped by helicopter with the case, while Peter abandoned his chance to pursue him and helped rescue the trapped workers.

• Harry and Peter worked together to defeat the gravity-enhanced attacker while Felicia found Kingpin preparing to leave with a hard drive and ledgers.
• Matt discovered explosives beneath the load-bearing beams, and Yang Ming opened a portal so Dave could evacuate the injured workers.
• Felicia resisted the ring-wearer’s illusion of her father, tagged Kingpin’s case with a tracker, and escaped as Kingpin triggered the explosives.
• Harry and Peter pulled down the Cooling Tower to sever the solvent pipes, limiting the fire as the explosion shattered the Docks.
• Kingpin escaped by helicopter, but Peter let go of his web and joined Harry, Gwen Stacy, Venom, Yang Ming, and Dave in rescuing the remaining workers.
• Felicia confirmed that Kingpin had escaped with the case.

Peter and the others rescued the dock workers, let Kingpin escape, and formed a new group called the Defenders. At the clinic, they discovered the Life Foundation’s satellite was meant to signal the Corrupt Hive, and a response came from lunar orbit just as the rocket’s countdown began.

• Peter abandoned his pursuit of Kingpin to help rescue the workers trapped in the sinking container, while Yang Ming later revealed that the helicopter had dropped its Tracker to conceal its route.
• Peter proposed forming an organization, and Frank named the group the Defenders; Peter, Matt, Mindy, Dave, and the others agreed to join.
• At the Yang Clinic, Yang Ming and the others learned that the Life Foundation’s planned satellite launch would send the Corrupt Hive Mothership Earth’s coordinates.
• Lightning sensed a response from lunar orbit before the signal had been sent, and the clinic’s lights went out as the launch countdown changed to 00:59:59 and a scarlet eye appeared on the rocket.

Yang Ming and the heroes attacked Launch Base Seven to stop the symbiotes from sending a signal that would bring Hive’s fleet, while rescuing survivors and dismantling the rocket payload. Drake activated the rocket’s autonomous launch sequence, leaving Peter climbing to disable it as Yang Ming held off Absolute Slaughter and the other symbiotes.

• Lightning’s response to the moon signal confirmed that Hive could locate Earth, so Peter called an emergency assembly to stop the launch at Launch Base Seven.
• Yang Ming opened a doorway to the base and assigned the heroes to defend the perimeter, rescue survivors, dismantle the payload, and confront Absolute Slaughter.
• The heroes fought infected workers, freed seven people from a sealed drainage ditch, and learned that Drake had changed the access rights to the Main Control Room.
• Harry broke through the Launch Tower’s blast door while Felicia opened the route to the payload lift.
• Drake disconnected the ground abort circuit and started the rocket’s ten-minute autonomous sequence as Absolute Slaughter challenged Yang Ming.
• Yang Ming told Peter to climb and disable the launcher, then used the Gate of Opening to face Absolute Slaughter and the symbiotes blocking his way.

Yang Ming fought Absolute Slaughter while the team raced to reach the rocket’s payload and evacuate the base. As the launch began, he opened a portal into intense heat and declared that he would save Holt first, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Absolute Slaughter invaded Yang Ming’s mind, but his Conqueror’s Haki broke her psychic attack and freed Holt briefly.
• Peter, Harry, Gwen Stacy, Venom, and Shriek trapped Blood Butcher and Blade Hunter in a slime net while racing toward the rocket.
• Yang Ming pinned Absolute Slaughter’s tendrils, sealed part of her in a container, and learned that she was moving toward the launch tower.
• Peter found a Ring-Shaped Device embedded in red tissue inside the rocket’s payload, and Yang Ming ordered him and Harry to open and support it.
• As the rocket’s engines ignited, Yang Ming evacuated people away from the silo, opened a heat-filled doorway, and told Absolute Slaughter that Holt would stay with him.

Yang Ming saved Holt by crushing Absolute Slaughter’s core and sending her into the rocket’s exhaust, while Harry and the others freed three researchers from the launcher just before the countdown ended. Corruption then forced the rocket to ignite, leaving the launch underway.

• Yang Ming crushed Absolute Slaughter’s core, pulled Holt free, and shut the Anywhere Door on her as she fell into the exhaust flames.
• Dave carried Holt away while Mindy stopped red bone spikes from striking him.
• Peter, Gwen Stacy, Felicia, Venom, and Harry worked to free three researchers fused to the Ring-Shaped Launcher.
• Harry replaced the researchers’ neural connections with his own, and the group tore the launcher away from the rocket before the countdown reached zero.
• Corruption pressed the forced-ignition button, and the rocket’s flames surged again.

Yang Ming rescued the group from the collapsing launch tower and operated on Holt and three researchers while Felicia’s sabotage sent the rocket crashing into the atmosphere and Frank’s team destroyed the Life Foundation base. Three days later, Tony and Peter repaired the Klyntar ship, and Lightning and the other symbiotes departed for home.

• Yang Ming opened a portal to rescue Peter, Gwen Stacy, Harry, Felicia, Holt, and the researchers from the burning launch tower.
• Yang Ming began removing the symbiote tissue from Holt as Corruption launched a backup signal and discovered Felicia had sabotaged the rocket’s navigation system.
• The rocket exploded in the lower atmosphere, and Frank, Matt, Damon, and Mindy evacuated the base staff before demolishing the Life Foundation facility.
• Yang Ming operated through the night and saved Holt and the three researchers, then told Lightning he knew someone who could repair the Klyntar ship.
• Tony and Peter repaired the ship, Lightning reconciled with Venom, and the Klyntar symbiotes departed after Tony presented Lightning with the repair bill.

The symbiotes left Earth for Klyntar as a hidden mechanical eye recorded their ship and sent a signal to Sanctuary II. Thanos dispatched Ebony Maw to Earth to locate the Space and Time Stones, and Maw found the Tesseract’s energy signature in North America.

• The symbiotes departed Earth, unaware that a mechanical eye recorded their ship and sent a signal into space.
• Thanos told the Black Order that Earth held the Space Stone in the Tesseract and the Time Stone guarded by The Ancient One.
• Thanos gave Ebony Maw the Mind Scepter and ordered him to find both stones, prioritize the Tesseract, and wait for the army before attacking.
• Ebony Maw traveled toward Earth while the Chitauri fleet prepared to enter through a stable spatial passage.
• Ebony Maw detected a powerful, stable energy fluctuation in North America and identified it as the Tesseract.

Ebony Maw invaded S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Dark Energy Research Base, took the Tesseract, and enslaved Clint Barton and Dr. Erik Selvig. As Fury assembled a response and dispatched Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff on separate missions, he hired Yang Ming, who prepared his clinic for a major threat to New York.

• Ebony Maw emerged from a portal, subdued the base’s agents, and used the Mind Scepter to control Barton and Selvig before taking the Tesseract.
• The base collapsed into the earth, and Nick Fury declared the Tesseract lost and raised the highest alert.
• Fury recalled Steve Rogers to New York and sent Natasha Romanoff to recruit Dr. Banner in New Delhi.
• Fury offered Yang Ming ten million dollars to help fight the alien threat, and Yang Ming accepted the job.
• Yang Ming packed his medical equipment, woke Thor, and told him to prepare reserve plasma and alert Peter and the others.

Yang Ming assembled the Defenders to rescue Barton and Selvig, recover the Tesseract, and prevent another portal from opening, while Steve and Tony brought warnings about suspicious activity within S.H.I.E.L.D. The team pinpointed the likely target, but an unauthorized withdrawal order bearing Fury’s name had already cleared its patrols.

• Yang Ming called the Defenders to the clinic after the missing-person list grew and Fury reported that Ebony Maw had taken the Tesseract, Barton, and Selvig.
• Steve warned Yang Ming that forged-looking orders, activated emergency frequencies, and attempts to seize survivors suggested a possible Hydra takeover.
• Tony arrived with a matching energy reading near New York’s East River, and Yang Ming assigned separate roles while keeping Dave and Mindy out of the target building.
• JARVIS pinpointed the building and intercepted an order to withdraw security, but Fury told Yang Ming he had not issued it.
• The S.H.I.E.L.D. system showed the withdrawal order had already been executed as Steve’s signature remained unfinished.

Yang Ming drove Rumlow’s Hydra team away from the Yang Clinic and insisted that the Avengers focus on stopping the invasion. Meanwhile, Ebony Maw stole iridium in Germany to stabilize a portal, leaving Yang Ming to realize the Chitauri invasion could arrive sooner than expected.

• Yang Ming used Conqueror’s Haki to incapacitate Rumlow’s operators and forced Rumlow to carry a warning to Alexander Pierce.
• Yang Ming refused Steve’s suggestion to pursue the Hydra agents, saying that stopping the Chitauri invasion came first.
• Erik Selvig told Ebony Maw that iridium could stabilize the Tesseract’s portal and identified a reserve at the Heinrich National Academy of Sciences.
• Ebony Maw killed six guards, tore open the academy’s vault, and stole the iridium.
• Fury told Yang Ming about the theft, and Yang Ming realized Ebony Maw was completing his mission without Loki’s distracting theatrics.

Yang Ming and the others rushed to Stark Tower after Ebony Maw began channeling the Tesseract’s energy into an invasion gateway. Steve fought the mind-controlled Barton while Yang Ming attacked Maw, but the Mind Stone struck Yang Ming with a vision of his drowning death.

• JARVIS warned that the Arc Reactor had been disconnected and showed Ebony Maw channeling its energy through a device built around the Tesseract atop Stark Tower.
• Yang Ming assigned Dave, Mindy, and Damon to evacuate civilians, sent Peter, Harry, and Gwen Stacy to intercept threats from the air, and went with Steve to the tower.
• Tony flew ahead but Maw telekinetically shattered the tower’s windows and sent him crashing onto a terrace.
• Steve attacked Maw, but Barton intercepted his shield and fought him; Steve wounded Barton and knocked him unconscious without killing him.
• Maw trapped Steve in the air with telekinesis, but Yang Ming arrived through an Anywhere Door and struck Maw with the Third Gate’s enhanced power.
• Maw repelled Yang Ming’s punch, then used the Mind Stone to pierce his mind and make him relive his drowning death.

Yang Ming resisted Ebony Maw’s mental assault and tried to stop the Tesseract gate, but Dr. Erik opened it and the Chitauri invaded New York. As heroes fought to defend the city, Thor regained Mjolnir and his divine power after shielding a child.

• Yang Ming broke Ebony Maw’s mental illusions with Conqueror’s Haki and advanced toward the launch frame.
• Dr. Erik completed the stabilizer injection, opening a wormhole above Stark Tower and unleashing the Chitauri invasion.
• Tony, Yang Ming, Mindy, Damon, Dave, Peter, Harry, Gwen Stacy, and others fought the attackers while Bruce Banner jumped from the Quinjet.
• Thor charged into battle without his powers, then shielded a little girl from a Chitauri soldier’s shot.
• Mjolnir flew to Thor, struck down the soldier, and restored Thor’s armor and lightning.

Thor and Hulk joined the battle as Yang Ming defeated Ebony Maw, but Supergiant seized the Tesseract and turned Hulk and Tony against their allies. With the wormhole closed and Manhattan threatened by a nuclear strike in three minutes, Yang Ming and Steve faced a desperate crisis.

• Thor transformed into his armored form and flew toward Stark Tower, while Hulk punched a Leviathan out of the sky and saved Tony.
• Yang Ming collapsed part of Stark Tower to break Ebony Maw’s defenses, then battered him unconscious as Steve, Tony, Thor, and Hulk arrived.
• Supergiant appeared and used psychic control to make Hulk attack Thor and Tony target Steve and Yang Ming.
• Supergiant took the Tesseract, causing the wormhole to close, then escaped with Ebony Maw while Hulk and Tony continued fighting their allies.
• Fury told Steve and Yang Ming that the World Security Council had sent a tactical nuclear weapon toward Manhattan, due to arrive in three minutes.

Yang Ming stopped Tony and Hulk from killing the team, then used Thor’s help and the Fifth Gate to send a nuclear bomb through a portal into space, saving New York. As the survivors caught their breath, Mindy finished the last Chitauri soldier, Alexander Pierce watched the bomb’s detonation, and Thanos received footage of Supergiant returning with the Tesseract.

• Yang Ming tore the neural-control cable from Tony’s armor, shutting it down, then Thor struck Hulk with Mjolnir and knocked him unconscious.
• Steve told Yang Ming that a tactical nuclear bomb was locked onto Manhattan and would arrive in forty seconds, while Tony said his powerless armor could not stop it.
• Yang Ming ordered Thor to carry him toward the bomb, then opened the Fifth Gate to improve his speed and perception as they flew upward.
• Yang Ming opened a portal into deep space beneath the falling bomb and closed it after the bomb passed through, causing it to detonate away from Earth.
• Mindy killed the last Chitauri soldier in an abandoned subway station, while Steve realized New York had survived and Alexander Pierce watched the explosion from a Hydra base.
• Thanos watched footage of the bomb detonating in space, Ebony Maw gravely wounded, and Supergiant returning with the Tesseract.