Recaps

Su Ming recovered the Tayanan relics, dealt with the Black Pharaoh, and recruited Stephen Strange into Kamar-Taj. As Tony redirected Peter’s school trip to Stark Industries, Deathstroke arranged for Peter and his classmates to face a swarm of spiders.

• Su Ming and his team retrieved the Tayanan device after Paradise revealed its plan to preserve the Tayanans as digital life, then Su Ming gave the relic to the Black Pharaoh’s avatar in exchange for their safe return.
• Su Ming and Doom arranged for a Synthezoid to impersonate Reed while Elsa left to hunt Vampires and Deadpool went home to Vanessa.
• Strange lost his surgical career after an accident, sought a magical cure, and endured Kamar-Taj’s strange tests until Deathstroke accepted him as a disciple.
• Deathstroke told Hermione about the dangers of the Witcher world, then spent time with Gin while Peter struggled with school bullies and his feelings for Liz and Gwen.
• Norman Osborn’s experimental spider escaped into a ventilation duct as Peter’s class prepared to tour Osborn Industries.
• Tony redirected Peter’s school trip to Stark Industries, welcomed the students, and met with the Avengers as Sam Wilson joined and Vision agreed to safeguards.
• Disguised as Ned, Deathstroke brought Peter and several classmates to meet the Avengers, then left them in an elevator where hundreds of spiders fell from the ceiling.

Peter and five girls gained spider powers as the Annihilation Swarm invaded New York, forcing heroes and civilians into a desperate evacuation. Deathstroke rescued Jessica and began training her, Scott Lang accepted Hank Pym’s offer, and the battle ended with another swarm approaching.

• Tony and the Avengers found Peter and five girls in the breached elevator, and the spider bites later gave them new powers.
• Peter and the girls formed the Spider-Woman Alliance, while Deathstroke brought Polaris to Xavier’s School and Susan returned to the Baxter Building pregnant.
• The Spatial Rift shifted above New York and unleashed Bio-ships and insect creatures, so Su Ming recruited Deadpool and helped organize resistance.
• The Spider-Woman Alliance entered the fight as Coulson, Sitwell, Deadpool, and other heroes escorted civilians through the city.
• Deadpool attacked Wolverine over his ruined face, then learned Weapon Program researchers were responsible and helped open a sewer route for survivors.
• Su Ming rescued Jessica from the hospital, helped her escape with its doctors and nurses, and explained her mutation as Deathstroke began teaching her to fight.
• Scott Lang broke into Hank Pym’s mansion to find money for Cassie’s treatment, and Pym offered to pay the costs in exchange for making him Ant-Man.
• Thor rescued Falcon from a Bio-ship as the aerial defense struggled, then heard a shriek from the Great Maelstrom that signaled another swarm was likely coming.

As the Annihilation Swarm invaded New York, Su Ming maneuvered the Bug King into bringing its Cosmic Control Rod through the Spatial Rift so he could awaken a Cosmic Cube and force the invasion to retreat. The city began rebuilding, while Su Ming took the Cosmic Cube to Kamar-Taj for secret experiments.

• Daisy, Carol, and Blue Marvel fought the invading bugs as Su Ming moved through the city with Jessica and helped her bury her family.
• Magik and the X-Men defended Survivors from Zerg soldiers, and Coulson was fatally wounded while saving Melinda and a little girl.
• Su Ming and Doctor Doom surveyed the battle as Sentry’s rampage forced the Phoenix to confront him, and Wanda later trapped their fight in a vacuum.
• Su Ming used a replica of Lindy Reynolds to lure Sentry into the Great Maelstrom, then drew the Annihilation Swarm King through the rift and attacked it.
• The Bug King fought Su Ming, but Deathstroke revealed an awakened Cosmic Cube and suppressed the King’s Cosmic Control Rod.
• Deathstroke forced the Bug King to surrender and retreat through the shrinking vortex as the heroes drove back the remaining swarm.
• Fury ordered Project T.A.H.I.T.I. activated to revive Coulson and directed Hill to investigate SHIELD’s computers and gather alien technology.
• Su Ming reactivated Vision, left New York with Strangle, and later conducted secret Cosmic Cube experiments at Kamar-Taj as the city began rebuilding.

Su Ming investigated the worldwide mushroom outbreak while searching for the missing Diana, eventually finding her in a corpse-filled realm beneath Australia. After rescuing Diana, he set out with her and his companions toward Arkham Asylum as Batman and Thomas Wayne faced the Upside-Down Man and the Batman Who Laughs.

• Su Ming returned to Earth, learned that Diana had vanished after entering a tree in Australia, and joined Harley in responding to a spreading fungal outbreak.
• Su Ming worked with Aquaman, Green Arrow, Constantine, Zatanna, and Bobo to investigate the mushroom zombies and trace the threat to The Grey and The Black.
• Su Ming, Bobo, and Harley searched the Australian forest, followed beetles carrying Eyeball Fruit, and found Diana’s hair beside a sinkhole.
• Su Ming led Bobo and Harley into the black mist, found Diana’s shield imprint in a corpse-filled realm, and fought a monstrous creature wounded by Diana’s sword.
• Su Ming controlled the monster with obedient mushrooms, followed it to a cave, and reunited with Diana while she fought Black Mud Monsters.
• Diana told Su Ming she had given her Tenth Metal to Batwoman, and Su Ming planned to have Sepulk lock onto his position so they could escape and confront The Batman Who Laughs.
• Batman resisted the Upside-Down Man’s offer while battling hallucinations, and Thomas Wayne heard a guard claim to be Bruce and Batwoman.
• Su Ming, Diana, Bobo, and Harley traveled toward a hall near Arkham Asylum, where Su Ming intended to find Thomas Wayne.