Chapter Summaries

Abomination escaped into Harlem and began attacking civilians and military forces, while gamma blood transformed the unconscious Sterns. After seeing the rampage on the news, Peter headed to Harlem as Spider-Man, and Yang Ming and Jessica set out from the clinic to confront Abomination.

• Abomination struck Sterns unconscious, escaped through the laboratory wall, and began destroying Harlem as gamma blood entered Sterns's forehead wound and enlarged his brain.
• Peter, Gwen Stacy, and Harry Osborn saw news footage of Abomination attacking Harlem, and Peter left them to head toward the disaster as Spider-Man.
• Yang Ming and Jessica Jones watched the footage at the clinic, and Jessica volunteered to fight Abomination.
• Yang Ming put on his coat and promised Jessica triple overtime pay before they left the clinic to confront Abomination.

Peter Parker debuted as Spider-Man and fought Abomination through the burning streets of Harlem, while Yang Ming received a mission to stop and eliminate the monster. Peter was buried beneath rubble after protecting George Stacy and the evacuating officers, as Yang Ming and Matt and Frank raced toward the battlefield.

• Peter redirected a taxi to save a soldier, then fought Abomination with webbing and acrobatics as the monster smashed through Harlem.
• George Stacy ordered the police to hold fire and evacuate civilians while Spider-Man distracted Abomination.
• Yang Ming received a timed mission to stop and eliminate Abomination, then opened the first gate and sped toward the battlefield with Jessica Jones.
• Matt Murdock and Frank Castle drove their weapons-filled van through a barricade toward Harlem.
• Peter held up a massive slab of road to protect George Stacy and the officers, but Abomination kicked him through two shops and buried him beneath rubble.

Jessica Jones rescued civilians while Yang Ming confronted Abomination in Harlem, and Bruce Banner jumped from Ross's helicopter to unleash the Hulk against the rampaging monster. As Banner fell toward the burning streets, the suppressant still kept his transformation from beginning.

• Jessica Jones stopped Abomination from crushing George Stacy and the wounded officers with a dump truck, then hurled it back at him.
• Yang Ming arrived and ordered Jessica to rescue people trapped beneath the rubble; Peter Parker recognized him as the man who had saved his uncle.
• Yang Ming met Abomination's charge with an Armament Haki-hardened punch and struck toward his knee with a hardened hand blade.
• General Ross learned that Emil Blonsky had become Abomination after draining the gamma blood samples, while Bruce Banner mocked Ross's failed weapon program.
• Banner persuaded Ross to release him, then leaped from the helicopter and urged the Hulk to emerge, but the suppressant still showed no sign of wearing off.

Yang Ming and the heroes struggled to contain Abomination while evacuating Harlem’s civilians, but his rapid regeneration made him difficult to stop. After Bruce Banner survived his fall and transformed, Hulk emerged from the crater and charged Abomination, leaving the battle between the two monsters underway.

• Yang Ming wounded Abomination, but Abomination healed almost instantly and continued fighting.
• Bruce Banner fell from the Apache helicopter into a deep crater, and General Ross assumed he was dead.
• Frank Castle, Matt Murdock, Peter Parker, and Jessica Jones arrived to attack Abomination and rescue civilians while George Stacy organized the police response.
• Abomination emerged unharmed from Frank’s grenade attack, threw a steel column at Frank, and forced Yang Ming to warn the others that conventional weapons could not stop him.
• Bruce Banner’s inhibitor wore off, and he transformed into Hulk at the bottom of the crater.
• Hulk leaped from the crater and crashed into Abomination in the middle of the street.

Yang Ming joined Hulk in overpowering Abomination, protecting the medical station and killing the villain before collapsing from the strain of his power. Hulk fled, and Yang Ming lost consciousness as Jessica and Peter rushed to help him.

• Frank warned that an apartment building was collapsing, and Peter and Jessica rescued a paralyzed old man while George refused the military’s demand to withdraw.
• Yang Ming opened the Eight Gates and coated his limbs in Armament Haki, then teamed up with Hulk to batter Abomination.
• Abomination hurled a fuel tanker toward the medical station, but Yang Ming kicked it into the Hudson River before it could hit anyone.
• Yang Ming used Conqueror’s Haki to stop Abomination’s escape and pierced his heart, then tore off his head to ensure he was dead.
• Hulk backed away from Yang Ming and leaped out of sight, while Yang Ming deactivated his powers and collapsed as Jessica and Peter ran to him.

After Yang Ming defeated Abomination, General Thaddeus Ross tried to seize him, but Jessica Jones, Frank Castle, Matt Murdock, Peter Parker, the NYPD, and Harlem’s civilians stood in his way. With news helicopters filming the standoff, Ross withdrew with Abomination’s corpse, and the others carried Yang Ming out of Harlem.

• Thaddeus Ross arrived by helicopter and ordered his soldiers to take Yang Ming and Abomination’s corpse, but Jessica, Frank, Matt, and Peter blocked them.
• George Stacy led New York police officers through the military cordon and confronted Ross over his attempt to arrest Yang Ming.
• Harlem civilians returned and formed a human wall in front of Yang Ming’s allies, insisting Ross would have to take them over their dead bodies.
• Ross saw news helicopters broadcasting the standoff and ordered his troops to withdraw with Abomination’s corpse.
• George agreed to handle the surveillance footage, and Jessica, Frank, Matt, and Peter escorted the unconscious Yang Ming away from Harlem.

After seeing Spider-Man fight in Harlem, Dave Lizewski decided to try becoming a superhero and bought a green wetsuit and basic protective gear. Meanwhile, Damon McCready and Mindy used the turmoil after the Harlem battle to target Frank D'Amico's men, and Mindy delivered a warning as Hit-Girl.

• Dave watched footage of Spider-Man and a black-coated man fighting Abomination and decided to become a superhero despite having little money or equipment.
• At school, Dave noticed Peter Parker's bruises and painful gait, then learned his green wetsuit was on its way.
• Damon and Mindy studied the aftermath of the Harlem disaster and planned to exploit the disruption to strike at Frank D'Amico's organization.
• Mindy changed into her Hit-Girl costume and defeated three of D'Amico's enforcers in a laundromat.
• Mindy told one enforcer to warn Frank D'Amico that someone was coming to collect an old debt, then left with Damon.

After the Harlem disaster, public outrage cost Ross his command, but he secretly continued pursuing the Super-Soldier Program by preserving Sterns. Yang Ming woke at his clinic to find the vigilantes hailed as heroes and received a reward for killing Abomination, which he planned to draw after sending Jessica away.

• Newspapers and protesters condemned the military over Harlem, while the public praised Yang Ming and the other vigilantes.
• Pentagon officials suspended the Super-Soldier Replication Program and stripped Ross of his command pending an investigation.
• Ross visited the Pentagon's biological lab, where Sterns's gamma-altered brain was evolving, and ordered scientists to keep him alive and study his brain waves.
• Yang Ming woke after sleeping for twenty-four hours, and Jessica showed him the protests and news coverage celebrating the vigilantes.
• Jessica told Yang Ming that Matt and Frank had left and that Spider-Man had gone to school; Yang Ming then received an S-rated mission reward and decided to get Jessica out before drawing a character.

Yang Ming used his mission reward to summon Retsu Unohana, the former First Kenpachi, after sending Jessica on paid leave. Unohana healed Yang Ming and asked what he wanted her to do in this new world.

• Yang Ming gave Jessica three days of paid leave, and she prepared medicine, food, and instructions before leaving the clinic.
• After Jessica had gone, Yang Ming activated his system reward and summoned Retsu Unohana.
• Retsu Unohana awoke in Yang Ming’s clinic, recognized that she had been brought to an unfamiliar world, and questioned him about it.
• Yang Ming explained that she had been summoned to help him, while Unohana criticized his injuries and healed him with Kaido.
• Unohana asked Yang Ming whether he wanted her to save lives or fight and kill.

Yang Ming brought Retsu Unohana to his Gotham clinic and hired her to handle surgery and special security. Unohana unsettled Selene with a brief display of skill, then began learning the clinic alongside Maggie as Yang Ming returned to his work.

• Yang Ming opened a portal and brought Retsu Unohana from Hell's Kitchen to his Gotham clinic.
• Selene and Maggie welcomed Yang Ming back, and Maggie reported that she had memorized her assigned anatomy material.
• Yang Ming introduced Retsu Unohana as the clinic's new surgeon and special security hire, prompting Selene to challenge the appointment.
• Retsu Unohana demonstrated how easily she could reach Selene's hidden dagger and warned her about her poor fighting posture.
• Yang Ming sent Selene to prepare a room, while Maggie offered to show Retsu Unohana the clinic's operating and supply rooms.
• Retsu Unohana asked Yang Ming what role he played in the clinic, and he called himself a conscientious boss who paid wages and overtime on time.

With business at the Black Clinic declining, Yang Ming decided to close it temporarily and take Selene, Maggie, and Retsu Unohana on a road trip to Amnesty Bay. He chose the Maine fishing town to avoid Batman and quietly explore a possible connection to Atlantis.

• Retsu Unohana examined the clinic’s surgical instruments, criticized a scalpel’s blunt edge, and put on a white coat.
• Yang Ming announced that the clinic would close the next morning for an all-expenses-paid road trip, while Selene questioned whether he was fleeing someone.
• Yang Ming rejected Selene’s suggestions of Miami, Star City, and Metropolis, then picked Amnesty Bay; Maggie and Retsu welcomed the chance to see the ocean.
• Yang Ming gave Selene money to rent a spacious, powerful seven-seat SUV and sent Maggie and Retsu to buy trip supplies.
• After the others left, Yang Ming revealed that he had chosen Amnesty Bay to avoid Batman and potentially make contact with Arthur Curry’s world and Atlantis.

Yang Ming, Selene, Maggie, and Retsu Unohana traveled from Gotham to Amnesty Bay to find a guide. At the town’s tavern, Retsu stepped forward to challenge Arthur Curry after his hundredth consecutive arm-wrestling victory.

• Selene drove the group from Gotham to Amnesty Bay in a heavily modified Ford Raptor.
• Yang Ming paid a boy to lead them to Old Jack’s tavern, the busiest place in town.
• At the tavern, Arthur Curry defeated Old Tom and completed a hundred straight arm-wrestling victories.
• Yang Ming suggested that Retsu Unohana take a turn against Arthur, and she removed her white coat and approached the table.
• The tavern fell silent as the patrons noticed Retsu and wondered whether she intended to challenge Arthur.

Yang Ming’s team met Arthur Curry at a tavern, where Retsu Unohana defeated him in an arm-wrestling match and Yang Ming hired him as their guide. Arthur accepted the job and led them north along the coast to find clean lodging.

• Retsu Unohana challenged Arthur Curry to an arm-wrestling match and pinned his arm through the tavern table despite his full strength.
• Arthur laughed off his loss, treated the tavern to drinks, and met Yang Ming and his clinic team.
• Yang Ming offered Arthur ten thousand dollars to guide the group for three days, and Arthur accepted, thinking of his father Thomas Curry’s needs.
• Arthur criticized the team’s Ford Raptor, then joined Selene in the front while Yang Ming, Maggie, and Retsu Unohana sat in the back.
• Arthur directed Selene to drive north along the coast, saying he would take them somewhere clean to stay.

Yang Ming and his companions settled into cabins beside the Curry family lighthouse in Amnesty Bay, where Thomas and Arthur served them a seafood dinner. After arranging a boat trip for the next morning, Yang Ming and the others ended the evening enjoying the meal and trading barbs with Arthur.

• Arthur brought Yang Ming and his companions to his father Thomas Curry's home and arranged for them to stay in the empty guest cabins.
• Retsu Unohana expertly prepared a black grouper with her scalpel, unnerving Arthur before she went to help Thomas cook.
• Thomas served a seafood stew made with fresh lobster and grouper, and the guests praised the meal.
• Yang Ming asked Arthur to take them out on the water the next day, and Arthur agreed to meet them at the docks at seven.

Yang Ming listens as Thomas Curry worries that Arthur has sacrificed his future to care for him, while Retsu Unohana reflects on the bond restraining Arthur’s savage power. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor prepares to take Elysium to Gotham, bringing Elias Thorne along despite Thorne’s doubts about the drug.

• Thomas tells Yang Ming that Arthur refuses to leave Amnesty Bay because he fears Thomas cannot manage alone, and Thomas wishes his son would go choose a life elsewhere.
• Arthur finishes preparing the fishing gear for the next morning and warns Thomas not to tamper with the faulty generator.
• Retsu Unohana tells Yang Ming that Arthur’s bonds restrain his savage power and that losing them could turn him into a beast.
• Lex Luthor berates his researchers over Elysium’s ninety-seven-percent purity and gives them forty-eight hours to perfect the drug.
• Lex Luthor decides to bring Elysium to Gotham and orders Elias Thorne to accompany him to a welcoming reception there.
• Thorne recalls Harleen Quinzel’s accusation that Elysium chemically castrates society, but agrees to travel with Lex Luthor.

Luthor ordered a dependence-inducing compound added to mass-produced medication, while Bruce Wayne hosted a banquet where Jack Napier recognized his benefactor’s identity. Dr. Elias Thorne became intrigued by both Bruce’s hidden nature and Jack’s fear, ending by asking Jack whether he was afraid of himself.

• Luthor ordered the type B neurodependency compound added to mass-produced medication so Gotham’s people would become dependent on it.
• Bruce welcomed Jack Napier to Wayne Enterprises at a banquet, and Jack realized Bruce Wayne was the man who had helped him in the East End.
• Bruce privately told Jack that his help repaid him for half a loaf of bread and a life, and asked him to care for Janet and their baby.
• Elias Thorne noticed signs that Bruce’s drunken playboy persona concealed combat training and deep trauma.
• Thorne approached Jack at the banquet and asked whether he was afraid of himself.

Thorne discovered the dangerous madness beneath Jack Napier’s mild exterior and told Lex Luthor that Gotham was full of fascinating people who might complicate his Elysium plans. The next morning, Yang Ming’s group went fishing with Arthur, and Yang Ming ended the trip’s opening haul by promising to catch a massive bluefin tuna.

• Thorne questioned Jack about how he relieved stress, and Jack said he dreamed of becoming a comedian.
• Thorne told Lex Luthor that Gotham was a treasure trove of talented people and might resist or catalyze the spread of Elysium.
• Yang Ming, Selene, Maggie, and Retsu Unohana boarded Arthur’s battered fishing boat at Amnesty Bay.
• Selene became severely seasick, but Retsu Unohana used a small reiatsu-assisted treatment to cure her nausea.
• Arthur dived into the sea and hauled a net full of fish aboard, showing off his strength and control over them.
• Yang Ming assembled his fishing rod and declared he would catch a seven-hundred-pound bluefin tuna for dinner.

Yang Ming tried to prove his fishing skill off Amnesty Bay, but repeatedly caught ocean trash and tiny prey instead of the promised tuna. After Selene and the others mocked him, he broke his expensive rod and raged at the sea.

• Yang Ming bragged about his fishing gear and cast for a massive bluefin tuna while Selene, Arthur, and Retsu Unohana doubted him.
• Yang Ming hooked a barnacle-covered tire, kicked it back into the sea, and insisted his line had held up well.
• Using Observation Haki, Yang Ming found signs of life but hauled up a rotten fishing net with a tiny mantis shrimp caught in it.
• Yang Ming spent an hour catching junk, then landed a tiny fish as Selene mocked him for being skunked.
• Yang Ming snapped his rod in half and furiously cursed the fish in the sea.

Mera warned Arthur Curry that Orm was preparing to wage war on the surface, but Arthur refused to help until the sea abruptly drained and a tsunami raced toward Amnesty Bay. Yang Ming sent Retsu Unohana and the others toward high ground as Arthur charged to save his father, and the wave reached the town.

• Selene teased Yang Ming over his failed fishing trip while Arthur brought their catch ashore, and Retsu Unohana sensed something approaching from the sea.
• Mera arrived and told Arthur that Orm had arranged an attack to win King Nereus's alliance and planned to become Ocean Master, but Arthur rejected her plea to stop him.
• The ocean drained away from Amnesty Bay, stranding sea life on the exposed seabed, and Yang Ming used his haki to stop fishermen from rushing to collect it.
• Yang Ming recognized the receding water as a tsunami warning, ordered Retsu Unohana to take Maggie and Selene to high ground, and learned from Mera that Atlantean warships were driving the currents.
• Arthur raced toward the Lighthouse to save his father as a towering wall of water surged toward Amnesty Bay and engulfed the town.

Yang Ming forced open the seventh of the Eight Gates and destroyed the tsunami threatening Amnesty Bay with one punch, then collapsed from his catastrophic injuries. As Retsu Unohana began healing him, Ocean Master surfaced with three warships and challenged the land dwellers.

• Mera tried to escape the tsunami while Arthur rushed to save his father, and Yang Ming chose to stay and protect Amnesty Bay.
• Yang Ming forced open the first six gates despite his body tearing apart, then opened the seventh as the tsunami reached the docks.
• Yang Ming combined Armament Haki with Daytime Tiger and punched through the destruction-class tsunami, scattering it into seawater and debris.
• Yang Ming collapsed, and Retsu Unohana caught him and used Kaido to keep him alive.
• Three Atlantean warships surfaced and aimed their ion guns at Yang Ming as Ocean Master, Orm, threatened Amnesty Bay.