Recaps

Chen Mo settled into life at Avengers Tower, then secretly left during a school dance to help Peter rescue people from a collapsing building. A deadly Brooklyn warehouse disaster intensified public demands for superhero oversight, while officials maneuvered to limit compensation and control the fallout.

• Chen Mo joined Tony Stark and the Avengers at the Tower, underwent examinations, and agreed to attend Peter Parker’s school while keeping Venom attached.
• Chen Mo and Peter shopped, traded stories about their lives, and discussed Peter’s crush on Mary Jane and his plan to bring Spider-Man to the dance.
• As the Avengers debated oversight and registration, Tony defended Chen Mo as a child in need of care, and Chen Mo later sneaked out of the Tower to travel to Peter’s school dance.
• Chen Mo diverted from the dance to respond to an alien-technology accident, and he and Peter rescued people from a collapsing building with help from Tony’s armors.
• After a warehouse explosion injured Venom, Chen Mo bypassed Tower security, accessed Avengers systems and the Raft, and secretly headed to the disaster site.
• Tony rescued victims amid fires and overwhelmed emergency crews, then saw people die while facing fear, medical costs, and limited help.
• The disaster’s casualties prompted a Times Square memorial and mounting demands for superhero registration, while Chen Mo urged Peter not to reveal his identity or support registration without careful thought.
• City officials planned to restrict compensation and manage blame, while Stark Industries pledged $100 million and the chief of staff routed the donation through a city-controlled fund.

Chen Mo exposed the failures behind superhero registration and paid rescue, then recruited Peter and Natasha into his independent alliance. The arc ended with Chen Mo and Natasha escaping the Helicarrier with evidence of government schemes while public opinion remained contested.

• Chen Mo confronted Smithson over the charity fund, then used the Raft’s security access to free selected villains and the Fantastic Four.
• As Iron Man fought a Doctor Doom decoy and officials cracked down on heroes, Chen Mo arranged for Smithson to propose a paid rescue fund that would expose unequal access to safety.
• Chen Mo’s group uncovered misused charity supplies at St. Matthew Charity Church, while Chen Mo ordered lightning strikes on financial firms, government contractors, and public-safety offices.
• Jack’s daughter Alice was trapped in a damaged school, and Peter and Patriot rescued her before the crowd forced authorities to abandon their arrest operation.
• At the Broken Ladder Tavern, Chen Mo rallied residents against hero registration and paid rescue, called for an independent Superhero Alliance, and warned Peter to protect his identity.
• Chen Mo and his allies infiltrated the Helicarrier and City Hall to obtain records, while a staged battle distracted authorities and Susan copied files on plans to commercialize hero response.
• Natasha gave Chen Mo evidence about the island and government experiments, joined his alliance, and left the Helicarrier with him carrying the documents.
• Officials worried about Natasha’s defection as competing messages about hero autonomy and registration spread through the public and media.

The Registration Act’s fallout exposed Hydra’s infiltration, drove Tony and Chen Mo to build an alternative system, and brought the Autonomous Alliance into conflict with the government. A TVA intervention then displaced Chen Mo to Gotham, where he reunited with Batman after Hugo Strange publicly claimed Spider-Man was dead.

• Congress passed the Superhuman Registration Act, and Tony suspended federal access to Stark systems after discovering that lawmakers had stripped safeguards from his draft.
• Rusk, secretly the Red Skull, worked with Crossbones to exploit the controversy, while Chen Mo and the Daily Bugle exposed the Administrative Bureau’s corruption and Hydra’s infiltration.
• Chen Mo and Steve staged a fight while investigating Hydra, and Tony later refused Congress’s demand for control of his armor and withdrew Stark Industries’ support for registration enforcement.
• Tony and Chen Mo developed a system that logged heroes’ actions while protecting their identities, and Chen Mo helped Sandman and Alexei find legal construction work before the Bureau tried to detain them.
• Chen Mo, Tony, and Peter expanded the Alliance’s community missions, but a spacetime fluctuation pulled Chen Mo into the TVA, whose agents blamed him for a disastrous future before he escaped to Gotham.
• In Gotham, Chen Mo learned that Bruce had been missing from his attic for four months and went to Hugo Strange’s press conference, where Batman was confronting escaped test subjects.
• Chen Mo revealed himself alive, helped Batman stop the test subjects, and watched Gordon arrest Hugo Strange before joining Batman in the Batmobile.

Chen Mo returned to school and began reporting on the Mad Hatter’s scheme, then followed evidence of hidden forces and gang exploitation across Gotham. As Bruce and Harvey Dent worked to protect the students and investigate the Holiday Killer, an explosion struck Dent House, sending Chen Mo racing to the scene.

• Bruce brought Chen Mo to the Batcave, revealed himself as Bruce Wayne, and arranged support for his schooling and work while Chen Mo chose to stay with the Gordons.
• Chen Mo moved in with Barbara’s family, returned to school, and began investigating the Tea Party with Barbara and Dick after finding clues tied to students marked with hats.
• Chen Mo and Batman rescued students from the Mad Hatter’s theater, then traced falsified Arkham records and transport paperwork without identifying who controlled the operation.
• Batman investigated the old facility number while Chen Mo reported on the rescue and discovered that school placements and transportation allowances had been disrupted by gang violence.
• Chen Mo stopped a gang from exploiting children, and Batman and Chen Mo confronted a Talon who linked the Court of Owls to Arkham’s east gate and an abandoned tram station.
• Bruce examined Venom’s effects on Chen Mo and asked him to stay at Wayne Manor, while Chen Mo, Barbara, and Dick watched Harvey Dent announce his Holiday Killer investigation.
• Chen Mo documented children working for gang handlers, and Harvey pressed Bruce to provide the children with protection and support while pursuing charges against the adults exploiting them.
• After Chen Mo questioned Bruce’s monitoring of Harvey and the relief effort, a drone showed an explosion engulfing Dent House, and Chen Mo swung toward the scene as Bruce prepared to follow.