Chapter Summaries

Thor broke through the seal into the Tenth Realm to retrieve Loki, but his demand to take his brother home sparked a battle with Angela and the angels. Loki offered the queen Asgard’s old routes in exchange for freedom and was appointed the Tenth Realm’s Lady Strategy, while Chen Mo was left to find another way back.

• Chen Mo lost the thread leading to Peter when Thor’s blows shook the seal, and Angela pulled him away from it as the queen confronted Loki over his identity.
• Thor smashed through the seal, found Loki, and asked him to return to Asgard, explaining that Frigga had sent him and that Odin remained asleep.
• The queen ordered the angels to seize Thor, and Angela fought him while Chen Mo tried and failed to mediate; the battle damaged the outer corridor.
• Loki transformed into a goddess, shed his shackles, and refused to waste his life in a fight, then walked toward the queen while Angela kept Thor at bay.
• Loki used green magic to reveal a route across the World Tree and offered the Tenth Realm access to Asgard’s abandoned routes in exchange for freedom.
• The queen appointed Loki the Tenth Realm’s Lady Strategy, prompting Deadpool to joke that he could betray everyone for a promotion too.

Chen Mo opposed the queen’s plan to invade Midgard after discovering that Heven’s angels were imprisoning and killing civilians. Loki redirected the main fleet to Asgard, then revealed his betrayal by holding the queen at dagger-point as the story left the Tenth Realm’s strategy uncertain.

• The queen chose Midgard as the Tenth Realm’s first target, while Chen Mo challenged her reasons and refused to open a gate for the invasion.
• Loki proposed sending the main fleet through an ancient passage to Asgard, leaving twelve warships aimed at Midgard.
• Chen Mo intervened when he saw angels separating Midgardian families and preparing to dispose of the captives, and he chose to protect them instead of leaving to search for Peter.
• Thor joined Chen Mo against the angels, while Loki’s fleet passed through the passage to Asgard and the route closed behind it.
• Loki’s illusion vanished, and the real Loki held the queen at dagger-point, condemning her treatment of the children and demanding they discuss strategy again.

Chen Mo, Loki, Thor, and Frigga stopped the Queen’s invasion by trapping the Tenth Realm’s fleets in the Old Royal City and evacuating the Midgard civilians. Loki stayed behind as Chen Mo returned through the seal to find his little brother.

• Loki used the Queen’s mark to cut off her new commands, while Chen Mo and Thor fought to protect the civilians.
• Frigga trapped the Tenth Realm’s main fleet in the Old Royal City and helped Loki and Chen Mo divert the twelve Vanguard Ships into the same barrier.
• Chen Mo helped evacuate the last civilians, and the Queen conceded, ordered her forces to stop pursuing them, and agreed to have her fleet impounded.
• Loki restored Chen Mo’s connection to his physical body, while Frigga’s mages shielded the route through Heven’s seal.
• Loki chose to remain in the Tenth Realm, Deadpool failed to join Chen Mo, and Chen Mo returned through the thread to his body.

A year after Spider-Man disappeared from Gotham, Robin and Batgirl stopped a robbery while criminals reminisced about his gentler methods. Batman continued monitoring for Chen Mo as Venom remained confined, until the Bat-Family was called to investigate the Joker’s escape from Arkham; the Joker prepared a nuclear bomb as a welcome for Spider-Man’s return.

• Robin and Batgirl subdued three robbers, who said they missed Spider-Man because he treated them more gently than Gotham’s other heroes.
• In the Batcave, Batman reviewed Robin’s performance and continued scanning for Chen Mo while Venom fought the mechanical arm and drew spiders on its containment box.
• The Bat-Family received word that the Joker had escaped from Arkham Asylum, and they set out to respond.
• The Joker decorated a nuclear bomb with a smiling face and a map of Gotham, saying he wanted to prepare a grand welcome for Spider-Man.

Chen Mo woke in a makeshift hospital in the war-torn city of Darukh, with both his and Peter’s Stark armors on his body. As he searched for Peter and tried to understand where he had landed, his Spider-Sense led him to a child wearing explosives in the crowded building below.

• Chen Mo woke in a classroom converted into a hospital ward and found that his wounds had healed.
• He discovered that both Stark Nanotech Armors were on him, but Peter did not answer his call.
• Chen Mo looked over the damaged city of Darukh and realized he had been dropped into a war zone.
• Following his Spider-Sense through the hospital, Chen Mo scanned a child near the stairs and detected explosives strapped beneath the child’s coat.

Batman, Robin, and Batgirl discovered that Joker had escaped Arkham and was threatening Gotham with a nuclear bomb, but the bomb had already been moved before they reached its warehouse. As Batman and Robin pursued the remaining leads, Joker arrived at Barbara’s home and asked for Commissioner Gordon.

• Batman, Robin, and Batgirl found Joker’s Arkham cell empty and discovered that he had drugged the guards and tampered with the security footage.
• Joker broadcast a message showing a nuclear bomb and teased Spider-Man about a welcome party.
• Batgirl traced the broadcast to the Morris warehouse, where Batman, Robin, and Batgirl found the bomb gone and uncovered several false freight routes.
• Batman took Robin to investigate Bristol Bridge and Kane Pier while Batgirl planned to contact Gordon through a private line.
• Barbara returned home, called Gordon about a false door-lock alert, and prepared to leave before Joker appeared at her door with flowers.

Barbara fought off Joker at her apartment, then Batman and Robin traced a nuclear bomb to Penguin and uncovered the criminal scheme that led Joker to claim it. The chapter ended with Penguin collecting revenge from the scheme’s original perpetrators while Batman and Robin investigated the missing bomb.

• Barbara trapped Joker’s wrist in her door, fought him, and distracted him when he found Chen Mo’s comic, leaving him absorbed in its artwork.
• Batman and Robin found the truck used to move the nuclear bomb and traced it to Penguin’s Iceberg Lounge.
• Robin recovered Penguin’s ledger, and Batman discovered that Penguin’s shell companies had used celebrity relationships and fraudulent debts to launder money.
• Penguin explained that Joker had traded bounty contracts for the nuclear bomb after tracking the people behind the scheme to the Iceberg Lounge.
• Penguin accepted an actress’s future film earnings and let her go, while the crypto tycoon died in Colombia in a staged scene reported as suicide.

Chen Mo stopped a boy from detonating explosives in a Darukh hospital lobby, then learned Peter Parker had gone north to photograph bomb damage and went after him. In Gotham, Joker escaped Batman with a stolen nuclear warhead and offered it to buyers in the Safar Republic.

• Chen Mo restrained the boy, removed his explosives, and threw them into the sky before the blast could harm the people in the lobby.
• The boy explained that his parents and little sister had been killed, while Chen Mo learned that Peter had gone north to take photographs and search for money for medicine.
• Chen Mo left the hospital to find Peter, but struggled to cross the desert while his suits searched for Peter's signal.
• Batman and Robin arrived at Gordon's House, but Joker escaped by releasing gas and fleeing in a truck; the Bat-family identified the stolen warhead as Penguin's serial number M-17.
• Joker evaded Gotham's roadblocks and advertised the nuclear warhead to arms buyers, leaving Safar Republic as his chosen destination.

Joker agreed to deliver a nuclear bomb to a buyer who wanted to destroy Darukh City in the name of bringing its warring factions together. In Gotham, Barbara and Batman discovered that Chen Mo had appeared in Darukh, and Batman set out to pursue Joker and find him.

• Joker rejected ordinary buyers and accepted the Safar Republic buyer’s plan to detonate the bomb in Darukh City.
• Alfred treated Barbara while Batman assigned Dick patrol routes and prepared to fly overseas after Joker’s transport plane.
• Barbara traced Joker’s arms-dealing channel and found footage of a red-and-gold Spider-Suit wearer saving a child at Darukh Second School.
• Batman recognized the figure as Chen Mo, changed his destination to Darukh, and prepared life-support equipment for the second seat.
• Barbara sent Batman the school’s coordinates and told him to bring Chen Mo back; Batman replied, “Mm.”

Chen Mo neared the fighting while Peter, without his suit or web-shooters, left a safe building to take photographs and help the wounded. When a child stood beneath a collapsing wall amid crossfire, Peter was trapped holding a badly injured man and had no webbing to pull the child to safety.

• Chen Mo followed his Spider-Sense toward the gunfire after a roadblock forced him off his truck.
• Peter sneaked out to photograph the damaged streets, despite the reporter’s warning to stay inside.
• As gunfire erupted, Peter took cover, then carried a wounded man toward medical workers while pressing on his abdominal injury.
• Peter spotted the child he had photographed that morning in the road as a damaged wall began to collapse above him.
• Peter shouted for the child to run and raised his hand to shoot webbing, but he had no web-shooters.

Chen Mo and Peter Parker rescued civilians and medics as a firefight escalated into a mortar barrage. They caught the shells in a web stretched over the block and launched them skyward, while Peter discovered that Chen Mo could shoot his own webs.

• Reporter Zhou pulled a child from beneath a collapsing wall, and Chen Mo caught the wall with webbing and Mechanical Spider Legs.
• Chen Mo used a makeshift shield to help Peter Parker get a wounded man to the medics, then his suit covered Peter and unfolded Peter's Mechanical Spider Legs.
• Chen Mo and Peter Parker heard an incoming artillery warning; Peter disarmed attackers on the ground while Chen Mo climbed to the rooftops.
• Chen Mo and Peter Parker stretched a web over the block, caught the incoming shells, and pulled the web taut to fling them into the sky.
• Peter Parker asked again about Chen Mo's web-shooting, then shot a web from his wrist and joined it to Chen Mo's strand as they launched the shells upward.

Bruce Wayne entered Safar as a public aid inspector after Batman diverted shells over Darukh with Spider-Man’s webbing. He crossed into government-controlled territory with Batman’s gear concealed in his suitcase, while Barbara continued trying to decode the red-and-gold suit’s signal.

• Batman reviewed air-monitoring data showing Spider-Man had redirected more than a dozen shells in Darukh, and Barbara confirmed the evidence pointed to spider silk.
• Batman landed the Batplane in a neighboring country, changed into Bruce Wayne, and concealed his costume and equipment in a suitcase.
• Bruce signed emergency aid documents for medicine, surgical supplies, water repairs, and local relief, while Barbara warned that his wealth made him a valuable potential hostage.
• Barbara compared intercepted suit signals with the school video and struggled to break through its advanced, changing authentication key.
• Wayne Enterprises announced Bruce’s trip, and Bruce told reporters he had come to ensure the aid money did not disappear at the border.
• Bruce passed through a checkpoint into government-controlled Safar with Batman’s cowl and gear concealed in his suitcase.

Joker agreed to meet his nuclear-bomb buyer at Tahlara Palace, while Chen Mo agreed to help Peter escort the wounded from Darukh Second School to safety. They planned to seize two armed leaders at the palace and force them to open a medical passage for seven days.

• Joker discussed the buyer’s plan to destroy Darukh and argued that a nuclear bomb would not bring lasting peace, then accepted a meeting at Tahlara Palace.
• Chen Mo tried to send Peter home, but Peter asked to stay one more week to help the people at Darukh Second School reach a safer resettlement area.
• Peter explained that the school’s people had saved and cared for them, persuading Chen Mo to help repay their kindness.
• Peter proposed restraining the government and Northern Armed Forces leaders at a private meeting and forcing them to sign a seven-day passage order.
• Chen Mo assigned Peter to monitor local networks and escape routes while he entered Tahlara Palace to restrain the leaders.

Bruce Wayne attended a Government Forces welcome banquet in Safar and was pressured to visit Tahlara Palace, where he learned Joker would meet an arms buyer. He accepted the invitation for ten the next night, knowingly entering a trap to get closer to Joker and the nuclear bomb.

• Bruce Wayne observed the banquet’s armed security while Government Forces officials celebrated the aid he had pledged.
• Bruce asked to visit Darukh Second School, hospitals, and water projects, but the general offered a revised itinerary that excluded the school and invited him to Tahlara Palace.
• Barbara told Bruce she had found Joker and confirmed the arms deal would take place at Tahlara Palace at ten the next night.
• Bruce learned the general’s security detail would remain outside Tahlara Palace and recognized that officials might be plotting to kidnap him.
• Bruce accepted the invitation to Tahlara Palace despite Barbara warning him that the officials were plotting against him.

Bruce searched Tahlara Palace for Joker and the nuclear bomb buyer while Chen Mo infiltrated the club to secure passage for a medical convoy. Chen Mo subdued White Widow, but Bruce recognized him after Barbara’s call, and his Spider-Sense jolted as Bruce approached him at the bar.

• Bruce arrived at Tahlara Palace, scanned the guests for Joker and the nuclear bomb buyer, and found no sign of either target.
• Chen Mo entered through the ventilation system, disguised himself as a waiter, and learned that White Widow controlled northern transport routes after the Government Forces’ southern-passage contact canceled his visit.
• Chen Mo questioned White Widow about the Southern Medical Corridor, fought her when she drew a gun, and webbed her into an air duct while demanding a seven-day passage order for the medical convoy.
• Chen Mo returned to the club and received Barbara’s call, but claimed he was at home; Barbara forwarded the conversation to Bruce, who recognized Chen Mo across the hall.
• Bruce left the gaming table and approached Chen Mo at the bar, bringing a glass to his lips as Chen Mo’s Spider-Sense suddenly went off.

Chen Mo reunited with Bruce Wayne at Tahlara Palace while pursuing White Widow and a medical convoy deal, and learned that Joker had escaped with a nuclear bomb. When Government Forces tried to seize Bruce, Chen Mo fought them off and escaped through the ventilation ducts with Bruce and White Widow.

• Chen Mo was startled when Bruce Wayne appeared at the bar, and they caught up before Chen explained Peter Parker was helping him negotiate for Second School's medical convoy.
• Bruce told Chen that Joker had escaped with a nuclear bomb, while Barbara reported that the arms buyer and the Government Forces official Chen had sought had both vanished.
• Government Forces tried to escort Bruce upstairs, so Chen pretended to elope with him and fought off their armed men when they moved to kidnap him.
• Chen and Bruce escaped through a staff corridor and ventilation duct with Peter's help, while Bruce disguised his abilities as those of a helpless playboy.
• Chen retrieved White Widow from the duct, and the three escaped Tahlara Palace together as alarms sounded and vehicles converged outside.

Chen Mo and Peter agreed to help Batman obtain the northern route and travel pass before leaving Safar together. Batman interrogated White Widow and learned the locations of six checkpoints and the missing Government Forces official.

• Bruce knocked White Widow unconscious, changed into Batman, and met Peter at the repair shop with Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo and Peter debated returning to New York or staying to find the nuke and secure the medical corridor pass, then agreed to leave once they handled both tasks.
• Batman sent Chen Mo and Peter out of the room and began questioning White Widow while Barbara monitored their encrypted conversation.
• After White Widow screamed and stopped resisting, Batman emerged with checkpoint routes, access passphrases, and coordinates for the missing official.

At Darukh Second School, Sami remained with the refugees after his failed attack, while Lylla and Hamid reflected on Peter and his companion’s kindness. Hamid assured Lylla that the two heroes would return and had been sent by Allah to save them.

• Lylla served the remaining broth to a father and child, then watched Hamid examine Sami’s injured wrist.
• Lylla reminded Sami that the people he had tried to attack were refugees like him, and Sami played bottle-cap games with the other children.
• When a child asked Sami for a bomb so he could become a martyr, Sami told him his little sister had been even younger than him.
• Lylla asked Hamid whether Peter and his companion would return, and Hamid recalled Peter’s care for his injured companion and Sami.
• Hamid told Lylla he had seen golden light within Peter and his companion and said they had been sent by Allah to save them.

Chen Mo, Peter, and Batman agreed to reopen the roads for seven days without identifying the medical convoy or its passengers as targets. White Widow contacted her checkpoints to issue the orders, then was released to return to Tahlara Palace.

• Chen Mo and Peter loaded equipment into the truck and followed Batman, who chose their route and plan.
• Batman argued that White Widow needed to return while her authority still held, and warned that revealing convoy details would endanger people after the group left.
• Batman set the plan to reopen the road for seven days without listing vehicles, patients, or names, and Peter closed the personnel registration page.
• At a fork in the road, Batman gave White Widow a communications device and map, and she called her checkpoints to order the roads reopened.
• Peter verified the responses, Chen Mo removed the remaining webbing, and Batman released White Widow, telling her, "I am Batman."

Batman negotiated with Safar’s authorities for supplies and reopened trade routes while keeping Bruce Wayne’s kidnapping believable. Peter Parker shared carefully verified photographs with news outlets, and the chapter ended with Batman pressing the government to make an offer.

• Peter Parker sent road photographs to editors, correcting a route on the map and asking them to protect a child’s identity and describe the image accurately.
• Chen Mo warned Batman that White Widow might connect his identity to Bruce Wayne, but Batman said she had guessed wrong and refused to explain further.
• White Widow concluded that Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man, and Batman had a private arrangement, and Batman chose to let her misunderstanding stand.
• Batman argued with Safar officials, demanded a decision-maker, and used Bruce Wayne’s safety and ransom value as leverage for supplies and access to blocked roads.
• Batman asked the government what it was willing to offer while Chen Mo compared his masked negotiating persona with the Bruce Wayne shown on television.