Chapter Summaries

The Spider-Men fought the Morlun Family as they tried to escape with May and Benjy, but Solus killed Broken-Leg Parker and Morlun nearly killed Superior Spider-Man. Supaidaman arrived with Leopardon and sent Morlun flying, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Octo-Parker and the other Spider-Men attacked the brainwashed enemies while protecting Superior Spider-Man and the children.
• Solus killed Broken-Leg Parker by draining his Totem, and the Spider-Men fled with May and Benjy as Mary Jane fainted.
• Solus pursued the escaping group while Morlun battered Superior Spider-Man and prepared to kill him.
• Supaidaman fired a Golden Light at Morlun, then summoned Leopardon when Morlun charged him.
• Leopardon struck Morlun and sent him flying into the Hollywood hills, where he smashed the giant letters and left a crater.

Takuya and Jessica pursued Morlun in Leopardon and killed him, removing one of the Inheritors from the fight. As they withdrew toward New York, Black Widow explained that Deathstroke’s hidden plan had turned the conflict into a three-way contest over the totems.

• Jessica explained the plan to isolate Morlun and concentrate their forces on him, and Takuya ordered Leopardon to pursue him.
• Leopardon caught up with Morlun in Hollywood, where Takuya repeatedly struck him with the Spider Rocket Punch and drove him underground.
• At Jessica’s urging, Takuya used the War Soul Divine Sword to stab and kill Morlun.
• Jessica spotted the West Coast Avengers approaching and decided the group should return to the outskirts of New York.
• William asked whether they needed to protect the Scion, but Black Widow said it was not important and suspected Deathstroke had already secured the Bride totem from Earth-616.

Deathstroke recruited the Spider-Men left behind on Earth-13 by feeding and encouraging them while secretly advancing his own plans. After sending Jessica to Earth-40K, he led Gwenpool and Little Wong through the portal to check on Superior Spider-Man's team, leaving the recruited Spiders to guard the Artificial Sun and their route home.

• Deathstroke praised the Spider-Men, gave them food and places to rest, and gained their loyalty by contrasting his support with Superior Spider-Man's leadership.
• Deathstroke told Strangle, Little Wong, and Gwenpool that Jessica had signed a contract and should be sent to Kamar-Taj on Earth-40K, while the stay-behind Spiders could provide testimony and access to their worlds.
• Deathstroke planned to exploit Superior Spider-Man's likely failure and have Gwenpool expose his team's casualties, while Little Wong secretly opened a portal and sent Jessica away.
• Deathstroke announced that he was going to check on the team beyond the Teleportation Portal, and Porker, Swarm, Spider Professor, and other Spider-Men volunteered to guard the Artificial Sun.
• Deathstroke assigned the volunteers their posts, then led Gwenpool and Little Wong through the portal.

Su Ming and his allies confronted Bora and Brix in a ruined New York, then Wong trapped them inside the Mirror Dimension. Deadpool arrived to fight the twins, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Deathstroke blocked Bora and Brix as they chased Spider-Man and threatened to kill them.
• Brix and Bora revealed clues that their family was pursuing a mission involving three Totems, and Su Ming decided they were no longer useful alive.
• Wong cast the Mirror Dimension spell, isolating Deathstroke, his allies, and the twins from the battlefield.
• Deathstroke summoned Deadpool to kill Bora and Brix and offered him a fee.
• Deadpool charged the twins with his Carbonadium blades after negotiating his payment with Deathstroke.

Su Ming and his companions watched Deadpool fight the Inheritor twins while they assessed the battle outside and searched for the missing Scion totem. Deadpool gained the advantage over Bora and Brix, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Deadpool appeared in the Mirror Dimension, making Gwenpool and the twins retch, and Su Ming had Little Wong report on the outside battle.
• Little Wong showed that fewer than ten Spider-Men had died and that American Dream was holding off Solus while the New Avengers and New X-Men fought nearby.
• Su Ming and his companions could not locate the Scion totem, and Gwenpool suspected the Inheritors might have eaten May Parker's younger brother.
• Deadpool used his Healing Factor, Carbonadium weapons, and bizarre fighting style to overpower Bora and Brix.
• Bora and Brix argued as Deadpool taunted them and continued attacking.

Su Ming and his allies killed the Inheritors Bora and Brix in the Mirror Dimension, then returned to the battlefield. Solus found his children’s corpses, and Su Ming taunted him.

• Deadpool killed Bora with a thrown Katana after she vomited and failed to fight back.
• Brix fled through the Mirror Dimension, but Little Wong redirected him through a portal into Deadpool’s grasp.
• Deadpool crushed Brix and hacked him to death, then Su Ming paid him and said the outcome was just right.
• Little Wong ended the Mirror Dimension, and the group returned to face Solus beside Bora’s corpse.
• Deathstroke kicked Brix’s remains toward Solus, and Su Ming asked if his whole family had died.

Deathstroke let Solus and his children retreat, then subdued the remaining Mutants while gathering prisoners to force a negotiation. Kitty arrived to speak with him, and he offered to discuss terms.

• Solus and his named children vanished after the Dimensional Demon Gods teleported them away, leaving their minions behind.
• Deathstroke contacted Jessica, learned the team was safe despite losing Scion, and ordered everyone to regroup.
• Deathstroke and his allies fought off the Mutants while Wade drew on X-23's face and Gwenpool protested his teasing.
• Deathstroke captured a young speedster and explained that Strangle had immobilized him at the cellular level.
• Kitty approached Deathstroke to negotiate, and he introduced himself as the Sorcerer Supreme from 40K Earth and offered terms.

Deathstroke negotiated with the X-Men and New Avengers after the battle, arranging aid for the ruined city and taking May Parker and Benjy Parker into his protection. Back on Earth-13, the Spider-Men reeled from their losses while Su Ming considered what the Inheritors intended to do with the three Totems and warned the Vishanti.

• Deathstroke helped the X-Men and New Avengers stand down, and Shadowcat asked how they could avenge Spider-Man.
• Deathstroke and Shadowcat agreed that the X-Men would help handle the inquiry into the city's destruction in exchange for Inheritor remains and Multiversal information.
• Deathstroke gave Shadowcat a Spider Totem for Multiversal communication and said May Parker and Benjy Parker had to leave with him because they remained targets.
• Deathstroke returned to Earth-13 with May and Benjy, where Superior Spider-Man faced the Spider-Men's anger over their casualties.
• Su Ming considered that the Inheritors might be trying to use the three Totems to create or devour the Spider-God, and decided to warn the Vishanti.

Deathstroke took control of the Spider-Web Legion after the Spider-Men challenged Octo-Parker over his failed leadership. As the group ate and rested, Deathstroke discussed popularity and suffering with Deadpool and Gwenpool before preparing to fight the Inheritors.

• Deathstroke secretly consulted Hoggoth about the Totems, then returned to find Spider-Men demanding answers from Octo-Parker over their battlefield losses.
• Black Widow and Jessica stirred up resentment, and the awakened Captain Universe Spider-Man proposed a leadership vote and backed Deathstroke.
• Spider-Mage argued that Deathstroke, as Sorcerer Supreme, could represent the Totems, and Octo-Parker accepted that his command had failed and stepped aside.
• Deathstroke distributed food and arranged for Peter Parker and the other children to remain under protection elsewhere.
• Deadpool and Gwenpool argued about whether they lived in comics or movies, while Deathstroke discussed popularity, survival, and suffering.
• Deathstroke ended the conversation and told Deadpool it was time to prepare weapons against the Inheritors.

Su Ming persuaded the Spider-Men to join him in taking revenge on the Inheritors and planned to weaken their Phage ability with radioactive dust. After assigning Captain Spider to protect the Sanctuary and Spider-UK to record the volunteers, he prepared to teleport the group to Coordinate One.

• Su Ming asked the Adjutant to find a low-intensity nuclear wasteland Earth and prepare a group Boom Tube Teleportation, while tracking Ghost Sister.
• Su Ming announced that he had located the Inheritors and urged the Spider-Men to fight so their families would not face the same danger.
• Su Ming proposed that the team gather in the sewers of the Inheritors' territory while he scouted ahead, and the Spider-Men accepted his plan.
• Su Ming told Captain Spider to keep the Sanctuary running and instructed Spider-UK to record who chose to go; the group prepared to depart.
• Su Ming lowered his mask and ordered the Adjutant to teleport them to Coordinate One.

Su Ming and the others arrived in a radioactive wasteland on a ruined Earth, where he recognized the world after meeting a Spider-Man fleeing mutant pursuers. After Su Ming destroyed the pursuers, the driver agreed to talk while carrying the last uncontaminated human gene samples.

• Su Ming ordered Little Wong to make shelter and took Deadpool to search for local inhabitants.
• Su Ming and Deadpool spotted a speeding convoy and approached its lead vehicle.
• The driver, a scavenged-armored Spider-Man, mistook them for hallucinations and said nuclear war had left mutants hunting him.
• The Spider-Man revealed that he carried the world's last uncontaminated human gene samples and offered them a ride if they helped him.
• Su Ming recognized the world and annihilated the mutant pursuers with a single blow.

Spider-Lord told Deathstroke and Deadpool how the Mutants had ruined Earth and were hunting him to destroy humanity’s last uncontaminated gene samples. After returning to the Spider-Men, Deathstroke claimed he had found the Inheritors’ next world and persuaded the group to follow him, while Superior Spider-Man’s questions only deepened their suspicion of him.

• Spider-Lord explained that Professor X and Magneto had engineered a nuclear war and sent Mutants to hunt him for safeguarding humanity’s gene samples.
• Deathstroke offered Spider-Lord help finding uncontaminated genes in other worlds, but Spider-Lord refused and drove away into the crater.
• Deathstroke and Deadpool returned to the Spider-Men, and Su Ming secretly checked their radiation levels with a Geiger Counter.
• Deathstroke lied that the Inheritors had just left and said he knew of another world where they could be found.
• Superior Spider-Man challenged Deathstroke to reveal how he tracked the Inheritors, but Deathstroke gave him fake Spider-Seeking Rods and dismissed the question.
• The Spider-Men grew suspicious of Superior Spider-Man, who retreated after realizing he had lost their trust.

Deathstroke and the Spider team arrived on a medieval-fantasy version of Earth and split up to scout while preparing for the Inheritors’ invasion. After emerging from the sewers, Su Ming’s group planned to learn about the world and wait for Jessica’s team to draw enemy attention.

• Deathstroke organized two scouting teams, assigned Kaine to fortify the sewer base, and sent Jessica with Spider-UK, Ham, Spider-Mage, Spider-Gwen, and Shadow Spider in the opposite direction.
• Su Ming took Deadpool, Gwenpool, Penny, and Little Wong through the sewers toward the surface, telling Gwenpool her abilities might prove useful.
• The Cloak of Levitation lifted the group into an alley, where they discovered a fantastical New York with armored people, dinosaur transportation, and ships sailing through the sky.
• Su Ming decided to find a map, contact local civilians, and wait for Jessica’s team to draw the enemy’s attention.

Su Ming investigated a city where residents acted like brainwashed performers loyal to Solus and discovered that its inhabitants might be beyond saving. After disguising himself as a fishmonger, he planned to question more locals before deciding whether to purge the planet or spare anyone who could be saved.

• Su Ming and his group observed the city's stiff-smiling residents, who used coins bearing Solus's portrait and lived under the watch of the Inheritors.
• Deadpool joked about arranging a world of forced romances, while Su Ming and the others discussed the dangers of the inhabitants' apparent conditioning.
• Su Ming asked a fishmonger about a totem, prompting the man to panic and reveal that the residents followed a script and obeyed their masters.
• Strangle killed the fishmonger, and Su Ming absorbed his memories and took his place, learning that the man was an ordinary human devoted to Solus.
• Gwenpool, Takuya, and Penny discussed killing the brainwashed residents, while Deadpool questioned their willingness to carry out an Exterminatus.
• Su Ming tricked the arriving guards and decided to question more locals before determining whether anyone could be spared.

Deathstroke and his allies discovered that the Inheritors had brainwashed people across the planet, including superheroes, and decided to clear them out before attacking. He sent the main force to the moon and began preparing Terrigen Mist to kill the enslaved population, leaving Deadpool to help him make the powder.

• Deathstroke and Takuya concluded that the brainwashed people could not be saved and that their small force could not safely fight the planet's population.
• Deathstroke ordered Jessica and the others to regroup in the sewers and told Little Wong to move the main force to the moon.
• Jessica offered to obtain Neutron Bombs, but Deathstroke chose to use Terrigen Mist made from Terrigen Crystals instead.
• Deathstroke sent the group to the moon and told them that the Inheritors' castle was in low orbit, while Deadpool stayed behind with him.
• Deathstroke set up a concrete mixer in an empty harbor warehouse and began crushing Terrigen Crystals as Deadpool packed the resulting powder into bags.

Madame Drew and people across Earth were petrified by Terrigen Mist released from the clouds, leaving most of humanity dead. Deathstroke gathered the Spider-Web Legion on the moon and led them toward the Inheritors’ space castle to begin their final assault.

• Madame Drew enjoyed shopping near the New York docks while worrying about her masters’ recent defeat.
• A strange cloud released Terrigen Mist over Earth, petrifying Madame Drew and killing about eighty percent of humanity.
• Wade escaped petrification and discussed the payment he expected for killing Inheritors and collecting statues.
• Deathstroke told the Spider-Web Legion that Earth had become uninhabitable and directed them toward the Inheritors’ castle.
• Deathstroke declared the final battle underway, and the Spider-Web Legion entered a Teleportation Portal to assault the castle.

Su Ming and the Spider-Men infiltrated the Inheritors’ space castle and found Mutants worshipping a statue of Solus in an ancient Gothic building. They fought the controlled Mutants, with Su Ming killing without hesitation as Deadpool attacked a Logan variant.

• Su Ming and the Spider-Men arrived in the castle’s garden and headed for a Gothic building that might hold clues about the Inheritors.
• Deadpool found a human skull buried beside a rose and joked that the Inheritors used people as fertilizer.
• Deathstroke opened the building’s doors and discovered controlled Mutants worshipping a statue of Solus.
• Takuya announced himself as Supaidaman, triggering the Mutants to attack the intruders.
• Su Ming killed the brainwashed Cyclops, while the Spider-Men and Strangle fought the other Mutants.
• Deadpool attacked a Logan variant with his twin swords, insulting him for worshipping a Vampire.

Deathstroke and the Spider-Men quickly defeated the Mutant servants and used their memories to map the castle complex. With the layout in hand, Su Ming dispatched teams to quietly eliminate the outer sentries, leaving the group poised to advance toward the Inheritors.

• Strangle swept through the Mutants, and the Spider-Men defeated the remaining enemies in a brief melee, capturing most of them alive.
• Su Ming read the servants’ memories and learned the castle’s layout, including that the Gothic chapel was actually the servants’ quarters and that its golden statue represented Solus and the Inheritors.
• Deadpool told Su Ming he had killed that world’s Wolverine, while Su Ming drew a detailed map from the information he had gathered.
• Jessica asked about Strangle, and Su Ming explained that it was a second-generation Symbiote descended from one left behind when Dragon invaded Earth and that it could read minds.
• Su Ming assigned William, Superior Spider, Ham, and Eight-Armed Spider to remove the outer sentries quietly, while Octo-Parker took Kaine, Reilly, and Miles to handle another team.

Deathstroke explained that Ghost-Spider’s powers came from an awakened Symbiote called Isotope and helped her communicate with it. Spider-Gwen gained a powerful white-and-pink Symbiote suit, and the group set out to hunt Solus’s children.

• Deathstroke assigned the teams to secure the perimeter and search the castle while keeping Ghost-Spider with the group because her Symbiote could protect her from the Inheritors.
• Deathstroke explained that Ghost-Spider’s artificial spider bite and Spider-Isotope had awakened a Symbiote named Isotope inside her.
• Gwenpool reassured Ghost-Spider, while she and Deadpool argued over whether they lived in a comic or a movie.
• Deathstroke used Strangle to connect Ghost-Spider with Isotope, causing the Symbiote to form a white-and-pink suit and greatly increase her combat power.
• Deathstroke gave Gwen chocolate and led the group out to quietly target Solus’s remaining children.

Deathstroke's group reached the main castle, where Deadpool's attempt to distract the guards ended with him being repeatedly stabbed. Ghost-Spider used her new symbiote-enhanced powers to attack the guards, and one surviving guard summoned a shield bearing Solus's portrait.

• Strangle successfully took a sample from Ghost-Spider's mutated symbiote for Deathstroke's experiment.
• Deathstroke and Deadpool reached the main castle, and Deadpool volunteered to deal with its guards for an extra 500 US Dollars.
• Deadpool teleported across the moat, slapped the guards, shouted "Hail Hydra," and was impaled and beaten by them.
• Ghost-Spider traveled through a Spider Web wormhole and attacked the guards, kicking one guard's head off and knocking the other away.
• The surviving guard retrieved a shield bearing Solus's portrait and challenged Ghost-Spider as a Spider Totem.