Chapter Summaries

Peter apologized for refusing to use Cable while Chen Mo was trapped on the enemy ship, and Chen Mo reassured him before discovering that he could stand and fight again. As the Spider-Men fought off a boarding party in Avengers Tower, the Guardians of the Galaxy arrived to help defend Earth.

• Peter admitted he had chosen to carry Chen Mo back rather than leave him behind and use Cable, even though the choice left Chen Mo with the burden of remembering the deaths and failures.
• Chen Mo told Peter not to apologize, said he was ready to keep fighting, and reset Cable to standby.
• Chen Mo's healing progressed enough for him to stand, and he joined Peter in defeating enemy soldiers who breached the medical floor.
• A Collision Side landing ship approached New York, but a spaceship rammed it as JARVIS identified the returning Guardians of the Galaxy.

Chen Mo and the others fought their way toward the Pressure Relief Ring while Deadpool exposed the Cable Device and Stark’s virus drive over the public channel. The Collision Side learned Chen Mo could carry information back forty-eight hours and redirected its fleet to seize the device.

• Chen Mo and Peter joined the Guardians of the Galaxy’s ship as it rammed the Collision Side landing ship away from Avengers Tower, while the two Star-Lords and Rockets argued and fired at each other.
• The Collision Side Star-Lord sent the Life Raft coordinates and offered to evacuate twelve thousand people, but the local Star-Lord deleted the plan and chose to fight.
• The two Groots formed a wooden bridge between the ships, and Chen Mo, Peter, Star-Lord, Logan, and Deadpool pushed toward the Pressure Relief Ring.
• Deadpool announced over the public channel that Chen Mo had a Cable Device set to forty-eight hours earlier and a virus drive prepared by Stark.
• The White Queen extracted Deadpool’s information and showed the Collision Side Tony that Chen Mo could carry battlefield data back through time.
• The Collision Side Tony ordered the fleet to target Chen Mo’s Cable Device, and the guns across New York turned toward Spider-Man.

Chen Mo and his allies fought to protect Cable while the Collision Side forces attacked, but the battle shifted when Asgardian reinforcements arrived and Thor encountered a living Loki from another universe. Carol then seized Chen Mo and carried him into the sky, still trying to take Cable.

• Peter and Chen Mo defended the passageway from the Collision Side armored suits as they tried to tear open the sealed door to the Pressure Relief Ring.
• Earth-10086's Thor and Loki arrived through the Bifrost with an Asgardian fleet, and Loki used illusions to draw enemy fire before the Collision Side Thor found him.
• Thor embraced Loki and refused Doctor Strange's call to return, while Loki repeatedly stabbed him with a dagger that barely broke his skin.
• Chen Mo and Peter reached the Pressure Relief Ring, but Carol burst through the hangar ceiling and grabbed Chen Mo by the wrist to take Cable.
• Carol carried Chen Mo through the hull and into the sky above New York; Chen Mo restrained her with his mechanical spider legs and refused to surrender Cable.

Chen Mo lost Cable and the Pressure Relief Ring during the battle, but Carol turned against Doctor Strange and gave him a chance to restart. He returned forty-eight hours earlier and told Tony to bring Loki to help hold off Storm Thor.

• Carol overwhelmed Chen Mo, tore the Pressure Relief Ring apart, and took Cable from his wrist.
• Vision destroyed Peter's attempt to reconnect the Pressure Relief Ring, while the two Earths continued colliding.
• Carol returned Cable to Chen Mo and protected him from Doctor Strange and the Collision Side fleet, urging him to find a way to save both worlds.
• Chen Mo activated Cable and traveled back forty-eight hours, landing on the Shopping Mall rooftop.
• Chen Mo told Tony to contact Asgard and bring Loki, saying Loki could hold off their Plus-version Storm Thor.

After returning to a new timeline injured, Chen Mo rejoined Tony and Peter as they prepared to stop the collision between two Earths. Loki drew the opposing Thor away from the Pressure Relief Ring, while Tony’s recording reached Carol and sparked a fight inside the enemy flagship.

• Tony treated Chen Mo’s injured back and showed Peter footage of the previous round, where Peter had carried Chen Mo to safety instead of activating Cable.
• Tony, Reed, Wanda, and the others used their retained knowledge to locate the spatial rift faster and rebuild the Pressure Relief Ring with safeguards; Reed rejected Chen Mo’s idea of having two Thors pull the Earths apart.
• Chen Mo called Loki to Earth, and Loki agreed to confront the opposing Thor after learning that Loki had held him back in the previous round.
• Loki filled the sky over New York with illusory Asgardian ships, but the opposing Thor broke through the display and embraced Loki, abandoning the attack on the Pressure Relief Ring.
• Tony sent Carol a recording of her actions from the previous round through the enemy Armor’s connection; after the channels went dark, golden energy and magical portals clashed inside the enemy flagship, and Chen Mo realized Carol understood the recording.

Chen Mo, the Avengers, and Reed activated all three Pressure Relief Cores, draining the energy beneath Earth and stopping the spatial wounds from expanding. Just as they celebrated, Deadpool and a group of allies arrived through a damaged Time Door, and a golden blast erupted near the flagship.

• Peter, Reed, Wanda, and Chen Mo brought all three Pressure Relief Cores online despite a fissure threatening the wiring, and the underground energy fell to zero.
• Reed confirmed that the TVA device had become a powerless black disc and the spatial wounds had stopped growing, while Wanda said the energy beneath the city was gone.
• A damaged TemPad opened a Time Door in front of Chen Mo, and Deadpool crashed into him while attempting a rescue.
• The White Queen, Wolverine, and five other variants came through the Time Door, and Tony aimed a nanotech cannon at Deadpool.
• A golden burst erupted near the flagship, sending a shock wave through two world boundaries and shaking every window in Avengers Tower.

As the two Earths entered their overlap phase, Doctor Strange halted the fighting and argued that moving either planet could not stop the collision. Chen Mo and the others proposed applying force directly to the boundary between worlds, and Strange agreed to help despite believing their plan would fail.

• Doctor Strange teleported the battle from the Collision Side flagship to Avengers Tower, where Carol, the two Wandas, Vision, and the others continued fighting.
• The two New Yorks began overlapping ahead of schedule, and Doctor Strange used portals to stop the combatants from firing on one another.
• Reed showed that pulling the Earths apart would fail, then proposed applying force directly to the boundary between worlds.
• Doctor Strange revealed that he had seen many failed futures, but Chen Mo had never appeared in any of them; Tony and Vision argued that this made Strange's conclusion incomplete.
• Chen Mo said he could sense where the force needed to be applied, and Doctor Strange used the Time Stone to include him and the proposed attempt in its record before agreeing to help.

Chen Mo and the heroes separated the colliding Earths, but the wider universe continued to collapse around them. As white light reached New York, Chen Mo used Cable to rewind time by forty-eight hours.

• Carol reported that she could not return from a distant planetary collision because she was protecting evacuation ships.
• The local Thor arrived and argued with the Collision Side Thor over Loki before Doctor Strange separated them.
• Chen Mo and Peter marked the moving boundary while the heroes coordinated their powers and pulled the two New Yorks apart.
• The Earths separated successfully, but Reed and the others discovered that collisions were spreading across the Solar System and the universe.
• As the encroaching white light swallowed both Earths, Chen Mo activated Cable and rewound time by forty-eight hours.

Chen Mo endured countless failed attempts to separate the colliding universes, eventually realizing that the system urging him onward was his own mind. After the team’s most successful attempt still failed at the universe’s distant edge, Chen Mo reset the loop and chose to try again.

• Chen Mo repeatedly used information from previous loops to move the Space Anchors farther across the universe, but each attempt ended in collapse and a reset.
• A voice began speaking to Chen Mo as a system, and he eventually recognized it as his own inner voice and understood that he had lived through more than ten extra years of loops.
• Tony noticed Chen Mo had grown and tried to convince him to stop, but Chen Mo asked for one more attempt and reconnected the cable.
• Chen Mo and the team separated the Earths, moons, suns, and distant regions of the Milky Way, leaving only a point beyond the Observable Universe still overlapping.
• The distant point collapsed and destroyed the team’s progress, so Chen Mo reset the timeline and said they would try again.

Chen Mo discovered that the universes were colliding in a Spatial Interlayer and realized he could enter it, though he could not yet control the ability. After his allies confirmed the interlayer was beyond their reach, they began preparing armor to help him separate the intersecting paths.

• Chen Mo used his spatial ability to enter the Spatial Interlayer, saw the two universe paths overlap, and was forced back before he could memorize them fully.
• Chen Mo told Tony he might have found a way to save both universes, then worked with Reed, the Tonys, Doctor Strange, and Wanda to investigate the interlayer.
• Wanda sensed something at Chen Mo's disappearance point, while Doctor Strange confirmed that neither his spells nor the Time Stone could reach or reveal the interlayer.
• Doctor Strange asked how many times Chen Mo had returned; Chen Mo said he had lost count and had experienced even more failures than the Eye of Agamotto had recorded.
• Chen Mo explained that he would need to pull the intersecting paths apart, and Tony began assembling existing armor components because Chen Mo was not strong enough on his own.

Chen Mo repeatedly tested ways to resist his Spatial Ability’s automatic escape, then entered the Interlayer and held apart the colliding universes until they separated. He returned to New York alive, but his unstable Spatial Ability swept Peter away with him as Tony reached for them.

• Chen Mo used modified armor and repeated forty-eight-hour tests to train himself to stop his Spatial Ability from pulling him out of the Interlayer.
• Chen Mo entered the Interlayer and used webs, mechanical legs, and thrusters to pull the two cosmic trajectories apart as the armor broke down.
• Chen Mo closed the Return Channel and held on with his bare hands until the last overlap passed and the universes separated.
• Chen Mo’s Spatial Ability returned him to New York, where Peter caught him as he fell from Avengers Tower.
• Chen Mo’s unsettled Spatial Ability shifted the rooftop and carried Peter away with him just as Tony reached toward them.

Peter watched over the unconscious Chen Mo in a desert field camp, where a witch doctor discovered Chen Mo’s soul was not in their world. In New York, Deadpool learned that Chen Mo and Peter were missing and slipped through a TVA Time Door to search for Chen Mo in heaven.

• Peter brought Chen Mo to a field camp after they fell into a desert, where a witch doctor examined Chen Mo and found that his body was healing despite his unconsciousness.
• The witch doctor attempted to summon Chen Mo’s soul but concluded it was not in that world, and Peter vowed to search other worlds for him.
• Deadpool drove through New York in a Stark Industries sports car and learned from B-15 that Chen Mo and Peter had vanished after falling from Avengers Tower.
• Deadpool decided Chen Mo must have gone to heaven and resolved to retrieve him, then slipped through a Time Door before B-15 could stop him.

Thor brought Loki back to Asgard in shackles while Loki secretly kept the strange light he found. As Tony Stark defended the Extremis Plan’s treatment and control system against Steve’s objections, he announced that he would run for president.

• Loki found a speck of unfamiliar white light where Chen Mo had disappeared, then let Thor take him away in shackles under Odin’s orders.
• Tony used remote controls to halt a dangerous reaction in a patient receiving Extremis treatment and restored her lungs.
• Steve challenged Tony’s authority over patients’ cells, but an elderly veteran signed the consent form so he could live to attend his daughter’s wedding.
• Tony defended prioritizing poor, terminally ill patients against reporters and people seeking paid treatment, while Steve weighed the benefits against the control Tony held over recipients.
• Tony announced that he would run in the next United States presidential election, drawing cheers from people leaving the treatment center.

Chen Mo woke in Heaven as a painless Spider-Man with a halo and enormous wings, and discovered that the angels around him were all women. After struggling to control his wings and making an awkward first flight, he settled by a pool and decided to enjoy the peaceful place before investigating how he got there.

• Chen Mo woke with white wings, found his wounds and pain gone, and saw his angelic Spider-Man form reflected in a pool.
• Chen Mo realized the angels around him were all women and accidentally scattered their flowers when his wings spread.
• A blonde angel folded Chen Mo’s wings and straightened his halo, while the other angels decorated his wing with flowers.
• Chen Mo tried to walk away, accidentally took flight, and spun above the pool until the angels caught him and set him down.
• Chen Mo rested by the pool, postponed investigating his death and transformation, and decided Heaven’s Daughter Kingdom suited him.

Chen Mo learned that his consciousness had entered a temporary angelic form in the Tenth Realm, where Odin’s seal trapped everyone inside and reacted to his powers. As the Queen arranged for him to explore the inner city and potentially open the seal, a monster broke into the courtyard where he was eating.

• Chen Mo struggled to control his enormous wings as the blonde angel escorted him through Heaven.
• The Grand Commander reported monsters entering through a crack in Odin’s seal, and the Queen ordered that Chen Mo receive comfortable quarters and freedom in safe areas.
• The mages explained that Chen Mo’s consciousness was in Heven while his physical body remained outside, and that the seal had no known exit.
• Chen Mo realized the Queen hoped he could open the seal, then settled on the terrace to eat while planning to investigate his spatial abilities.
• A bell sounded, and a black rift opened above the terrace as a massive, six-eyed monster forced its way into the courtyard.

Chen Mo helped the angels defeat a monster that tracked the spatial traces on him, though they repeatedly rescued him during the fight. After enjoying their care, he asked to see the queen and inspect the seal so he could find a way back to the person waiting for him.

• A blonde angel rescued Chen Mo from the monster's first attack, and he later helped an angel by wedging a spear beneath the monster's jaw.
• The angels fought the monster while Chen Mo was carried to safety, and the silver-haired mage discovered that it was following spatial traces on him.
• Chen Mo asked the black-haired angel to let him go, used his wings to slow his fall, and rode the monster toward the angels' trap.
• The angels pinned the monster with crossed spears, and the blonde angel killed it with her longsword before catching Chen Mo after its tail struck him.
• The angels tended to Chen Mo and offered him fruit, but he asked to see the queen and inspect the seal so he could find a way back to someone waiting for him.

Chen Mo tried to open Odin’s seal, but the attempt nearly pulled him into another world before Angela rescued him. The queen offered him a place in Heven, but he chose to leave, then unexpectedly found Loki and a dog-shaped Deadpool in the inner courtyard.

• Chen Mo used his Spider-Sense to widen the seal, revealing several worlds, but Angela pulled him free before the rift could drag him in.
• The queen assigned Angela to protect Chen Mo and offered him a high position in Heven if he helped open a safe passage.
• Angela showed Chen Mo around Heven and asked him to stay, but he said he still had to leave and requested time alone.
• Chen Mo heard Loki arguing with a red-and-black dog in the courtyard and discovered the dog was Deadpool.
• Deadpool recognized Chen Mo, flirted with him, and asked for a kiss to break his supposed animal curse.

Deadpool escaped the TVA with a damaged TemPad and recruited Loki to reach Heven, the sealed Tenth Realm. After Loki brought him there in dog form, they reunited with Chen Mo, who questioned their bizarre journey.

• Deadpool searched the TVA Archive for Heaven, found the Heven file, and escaped through a Time Door with Loki's Asgard coordinates.
• Loki used the white light to open a spatial route during the Fire Demon attack, escaped Thor's escort, and met Deadpool on the outskirts of Asgard.
• Deadpool persuaded Loki to take him to Heven, and Loki used the TemPad and white light to breach Odin's seal.
• Loki transformed Deadpool into a red-and-black dog, and they entered Heven through the rift before the route closed.
• Loki followed the white light toward Chen Mo, while Deadpool clung to Chen Mo and explained their journey.

Chen Mo, Angela, Loki, and Deadpool remained trapped in Heven as the Angel Queen prepared the Tenth Realm for war against Asgard and began dealing harshly with newcomers from other realms. After Chen Mo vouched for Loki, Angela received the queen’s order to bring him to the royal court.

• Loki tested Odin’s seal and found that it blocked both the white light and the TemPad from opening an exit.
• The Angel Queen considered using the spatial ability for the Tenth Realm, authorized harsher treatment for Asgardians, and ordered twenty-six Midgardians marked for disposal.
• The Tenth Realm prepared its warships and weapons, marking Midgard and Asgard on a map as targets.
• Angela entered the courtyard and found Chen Mo petting Deadpool in dog form while Loki hid a knife and wore an Asgardian shackle.
• Chen Mo persuaded Angela not to treat Loki as an enemy, and she scanned him and Deadpool before receiving the queen’s response.
• Loki’s TemPad failed to escape Heven, and Angela told him that the queen wanted to see him.

Chen Mo sought the seal records and Loki’s help to find his body and Peter, while the Tenth Realm offered him a place in its court. As Loki helped Chen Mo reach toward Peter, Odin’s seal shook under a hammer strike and Thor called out to Loki.

• Angela led Chen Mo, Deadpool, and Loki to the Royal Palace, where the queen seated Chen Mo beside the throne and offered him a mate and royal status for his descendants.
• Chen Mo declined the queen’s proposal to expand the Tenth Realm’s spider population and asked to focus on returning to his body.
• The queen and Loki disputed whether the angels had betrayed Asgard after serving Odin, before the queen granted Chen Mo access to the seal records and Loki permission to use the court’s spell materials.
• Loki used a fragment of light to show Chen Mo that Peter was alive beside Chen Mo’s body, though Peter and the body were approaching an uncertain turning point.
• Chen Mo and Loki tried to follow their connection through Odin’s seal, but a hammer struck from beyond it and Thor called Loki his brother.