Arc 7The Negative Zone and Tandy

Peter helped stop Killian’s plot, rescued President Ellis, and helped Riri begin recovering after Maya’s death. He took Tandy in, explored the Negative Zone with Reed, and ended the stretch by dismantling the Street Rats Gang and deciding to investigate the corrupt officials behind street crime.

  • Peter helped Tony uncover Aldrich Killian’s Extremis scheme, rescued President Ellis with the assembled heroes, and later comforted Riri at Maya’s funeral.
  • Peter and Reed opened a portal to the Antimatter Universe, and the Ancient One helped Ben begin training to control the dimensional energy causing his condition.
  • Peter rescued Tandy from the Street Rats Gang, arranged legal help through Matt, and welcomed her into the Parker household before she moved to Midtown High School.
  • Peter explored the Negative Zone, found Doctor Doom’s abandoned research, and joined Reed, Susan, and Johnny in mining eighty million dollars’ worth of minerals.
  • Spider-Man trapped and defeated dozens of Street Rats Gang members, called the police, and resolved to investigate the corrupt officials sustaining street crime.
Chapters 151–175 Vol. 2 Read

Ch. 151The Mandarin

Peter revealed that he had learned magic during his time in a parallel world, then raced to Malibu after the Mandarin claimed responsibility for a bombing and Tony Stark challenged him. He reached Tony’s villa and was immediately targeted by automated rocket launchers.

  • Peter demonstrated the Whip of Valtorr to MJ and Liz, then lied about his older self’s life in the parallel world.
  • Peter saw the news about the Mandarin’s bombing and Tony Stark’s public challenge, and decided to help Tony.
  • Peter told Sassy to contact Pepper, drove toward California, and used flight mode to travel unseen to Malibu.
  • Peter arrived above Tony’s villa, ordered Sassy and Doc to watch for disguised enemy helicopters, and leaped onto the roof.
  • More than twenty automated antiaircraft rocket launchers appeared on the roof and locked onto Peter.

Ch. 152Extremis Virus

Peter helped Tony, Pepper, and Maya fend off an attack on Tony’s mansion and learned that Maya’s boss, Aldrich Killian, was behind the threat. Maya began explaining Killian’s Extremis Virus project, while Peter accessed JARVIS’s information about it.

  • Peter arrived at Tony’s mansion and met Maya Hansen Williams, who warned that her boss was working for The Mandarin.
  • Peter urged Tony to activate the House Party protocol as Maya insisted they leave.
  • A rocket targeted the mansion, but Sassy redirected it into the sky and disabled the attacking helicopters.
  • Peter had JARVIS send suits to rescue survivors from the sea, then asked Maya who her boss was.
  • Maya named Aldrich Killian and explained that he funded her Extremis Virus research and wanted to market it as a cure-all.
  • Peter connected to JARVIS’s database and pulled up information about the Extremis Virus.

Ch. 153Riri

Peter exposed the deadly flaw in Maya’s Extremis research and confronted her about the people killed by its explosions. Riri’s arrival revealed she might be Tony’s daughter, leaving Tony and Riri stunned as Maya refused to answer.

  • Maya explained that she had modified genes to create powerful regenerative abilities, and Peter suspected she was working for Advanced Idea Mechanics.
  • Peter showed that Extremis caused its subjects to overheat and explode, prompting Tony to realize the explosions had been people rather than bombs.
  • Maya admitted she knew Extremis could kill people but blamed Tony for leaving her without a choice when she needed funding.
  • Riri entered the mansion after bypassing JARVIS’s security, and Sassy identified her as Maya’s daughter, born six months after Maya met Tony.
  • Peter concluded that Riri was likely Tony’s daughter, and Tony demanded the truth while Riri reacted in shock.

Ch. 154Extremis Soldier

Tony learned that Riri was his daughter and that Maya had injected her with the unstable Extremis Virus to save her life. As Tony, Maya, and Pepper worked to find a cure, an Extremis Soldier escaped outside the mansion and charged toward the gate, prompting Peter to respond.

  • Peter deduced that Maya had used the unfinished Extremis Virus to save Riri, and Tony ordered the lab prepared to treat her.
  • Tony and Maya argued over why she had kept Riri's existence from him until Peter stopped them and urged Tony to save the girl.
  • JARVIS confirmed that Riri was Tony's biological daughter, and Tony, Maya, and Pepper began working together to stabilize the virus.
  • Riri asked Peter whether Tony could save her, and Peter encouraged her to trust both her parents.
  • A captured Extremis Soldier escaped the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., attacked them with flames, and charged at the mansion's gate.
  • Peter rose to confront the soldier and asked JARVIS for fire support.

Ch. 155Advanced Idea Mechanics

Peter and Tony stabilized Riri’s Extremis infection, then headed for AIM’s Miami headquarters to confront the Mandarin. They left Riri in treatment with Pepper and Maya while Tony summoned an Iron Man armor squad to join the attack.

  • Peter and several Iron Man suits destroyed the Extremis Soldier outside Tony’s home.
  • Peter told Riri she would need to build her own armor and earn the right to use it.
  • Tony and Maya gave Riri the stabilizer, and her temperature began to fall as the treatment took effect.
  • Maya gave Peter and Tony the coordinates of AIM’s headquarters in Miami, Florida.
  • Tony and Peter set out for the headquarters with Mark 20 through Mark 35, leaving the other suits behind to protect Riri and the others.

Ch. 156President Ellis

Peter and Tony escaped a devastating explosion at the Miami estate and deduced that the Mandarin and Aldrich Killian planned to target President Ellis aboard Air Force One. They warned Ellis, but learned that Iron Patriot had boarded the plane as his bodyguard just before a scream cut off the call.

  • Peter and Tony attacked the guards at the Miami estate, but Peter sensed an imminent explosion and got them airborne before it destroyed the estate.
  • Peter learned that the Mandarin had executed a United States citizen on a live broadcast and reasoned that Air Force One was the next target.
  • Tony had JARVIS locate Air Force One and try to contact Rhodey, but JARVIS could not reach him or track his Iron Patriot armor.
  • Peter and Tony called President Ellis to warn him, but Ellis said Iron Patriot had boarded Air Force One as his bodyguard.
  • Tony tried to tell Ellis that the person in the stolen armor was not Rhodey, but a scream interrupted the call.

Ch. 157Operation

After Tony's mansion was attacked and Pepper and Riri were abducted, Peter split from Tony to rescue the kidnapped president. He gathered S.H.I.E.L.D., the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men at a Roxxon oil platform, where the rescue operation was about to begin.

  • JARVIS told Tony that Pepper and Riri had been abducted, Maya Hansen had been killed, and the reserve suits and mansion had been destroyed.
  • Peter sent Tony after Pepper and Riri while he pursued the president, then learned that the vice president had helped divert Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow to Afghanistan.
  • Peter contacted Fury, Susan, and Professor X to assemble S.H.I.E.L.D., the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men as backup.
  • At a Roxxon offshore oil platform, Peter assigned the teams their targets while the Mandarin prepared to address the country on camera.
  • Peter ordered JARVIS to move out and began the assault to rescue President Ellis.

Ch. 158This is magic

Peter and his allies rescued President Ellis and overwhelmed the Extremis forces on the drilling platform. After Aldrich Killian attacked the rescue helicopter, Peter saved it and confronted Killian with the Wand of Watoomb.

  • Peter, S.H.I.E.L.D., the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men attacked the drilling platform, and Peter freed President Ellis from the crane.
  • Peter restored control of the Iron Patriot, and Kurt teleported President Ellis to a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopter.
  • The heroes drove back the Extremis Soldiers while Aldrich Killian tried to ram the rescue helicopter with his own helicopter.
  • Jean held Killian's helicopter in midair, but Scott's beam severed its rotor, and Peter caught the falling helicopter in a web.
  • Killian emerged from the wreckage and attacked Peter, who bound him with a golden magical whip from the Wand of Watoomb.

Ch. 159Live Well 1

Peter helped defeat Killian and the Extremis Soldiers, then reunited the Fantastic Four and X-Men with President Ellis and returned the surviving suits to Tony. At Maya Hansen’s funeral, Peter comforted Riri Williams and urged her to grieve without letting her loss define her, while giving her a chance to reconnect with Tony.

  • Peter defeated Killian, and the remaining Extremis Soldiers were captured with Reed’s gene-suppressing handcuffs.
  • Peter introduced the X-Men to President Ellis, then took a group photo with the assembled heroes and the president.
  • After the teams departed, Peter reported the president’s safety to Tony and learned Pepper and Riri were safe, though Riri was struggling with Maya’s death.
  • Three days later, Peter attended Maya Hansen’s funeral near Chicago, where Riri remained alone at her mother’s grave.
  • Peter told Riri about losing his own mother and urged her to live in a way that would make Maya proud and give Tony a chance.

Ch. 160Gifts

Peter comforted Riri, asked Tony for information about Ulysses Klaue, and prepared Christmas gifts for his friends and family. On Christmas morning, he visited the comatose Harry and left him a present, hoping he would recover.

  • Peter reassured Riri at the headstone and suggested she take the name Ironheart.
  • Peter asked Tony for Ulysses Klaue's location so he could steal materials for a new suit, and Tony agreed to have JARVIS investigate.
  • At home, Peter listed the gifts he had prepared for his friends and family before sneaking out to weave a Christmas message over the bridge for Xiaomao.
  • Peter visited Harry in the hospital, left him a red gift box, and wished him a speedy recovery.

Ch. 161Building another portal

Peter developed a plan to create durable shape-changing clothing, but the materials and equipment would cost $500 million. After realizing the Negative Zone might contain a planet of gold, he recruited Reed to build a portal, leaving them about to begin the risky project.

  • Peter and Sassy successfully simulated unstable molecule fabric and calculated that producing it would cost $500 million.
  • Peter connected the fabric to Dr. Zheng Cha’s shape-changing clothing research and imagined combining it with miniature controllers and memory fabric.
  • Peter checked his blood toxicity, which had fallen to 67%.
  • Ben Grimm suggested that Reed could build a portal to the Negative Zone, as Reed had done on Earth-982.
  • Peter rushed to Reed’s laboratory and insisted they build a Negative Zone portal, promising to supervise the work.

Ch. 162The Cachi party

Peter returned to school while work on the Negative Zone portal continued, and agreed to attend Mark’s band gig at an underground party. After accepting Flash’s challenge to leave the party with a girl first, Peter got ready with Liz and Mary Jane, then received Uncle Ben and Richard Parker’s approval to go.

  • Peter talked with Mark at lunch and agreed to attend his band’s gig at Cachi that night.
  • Flash challenged Peter to see who could pick up a girl and leave with her first, betting that the loser would wear pink to school; Peter accepted.
  • Peter asked Liz and Mary Jane to help him choose an outfit for the party.
  • Liz and Mary Jane helped Peter get ready at the Parker mansion, where he explained that Felicia had bought his old plaid shirts.
  • Peter told Uncle Ben and Richard Parker the party might involve drugs and drinking, and they let him go while reminding him to stay safe.

Ch. 163Going to a party

Peter went with his friends to an underground party, where he noticed teenagers distributing a new pink pill called Jungle Rave. The chapter ended with him realizing that many people at the party were taking the drug.

  • Peter and his friends entered an abandoned underground train terminal to attend the Kachi party.
  • Mark introduced Peter to his bandmates, while Liz tried to help Peter meet girls at the party.
  • Johnny Storm arrived and greeted Liz, then joined Flash in helping an intoxicated girl named Karina leave safely.
  • A hoodie-wearing girl offered Peter a pink pill called Jungle Rave, claiming it would make him feel high.
  • Peter examined the pill and scanned the crowd, discovering that several teenagers were distributing it and many partygoers were taking it.

Ch. 164Street Rats Gang

Peter attacked the Street Rats Gang members who were dealing drugs at the party, then met Tandy, a homeless girl they had beaten for trying to stop them. Tandy revealed that the gang was coercing homeless children, and Peter learned that some of her friends were in danger.

  • Peter followed the Street Rats Gang's leader and lackeys into a tunnel and incapacitated them.
  • Peter encountered Tandy as she tried to flee, then reassured her that the gang members were unconscious rather than dead.
  • Peter told Tandy he had acted because the gang was selling drugs to minors, and she introduced herself.
  • Tandy explained that the Street Rats Gang had beaten her and threatened homeless children into joining them.

Ch. 165Matt

Peter took the injured runaway Tandy Bowen to a clinic, arranged legal help so she could seek freedom from her abusive home, and brought her to stay at the Parker mansion. After meeting Matt Murdock as Daredevil, Peter asked him to help find the Street Rats Gang.

  • Peter took Tandy to a clinic, where Dr. Claire Temple treated her broken arm and uncovered signs of long-term abuse.
  • Peter contacted Matt Murdock to represent Tandy, and Tandy agreed to seek legal protection from her mother and stepfather.
  • Peter brought Tandy to the Parker mansion, where Richard agreed she could stay in Peter's room for a week while Peter slept on the couch.
  • At a midnight meeting, Peter gave Daredevil Tandy's information and a legal fee, then revealed he was sixteen.
  • Peter asked Matt about the Street Rats Gang, and Matt agreed to lead him to their headquarters.

Ch. 166A misunderstanding

After Peter and Matt Murdock destroyed five Street Rats Gang hideouts, Peter’s return home with Tandy led Aunt May to mistake their situation for a one-night stand. At breakfast, Peter arranged for Matt to meet Tandy about her case, but Aunt May decided to go with her while Peter had to attend school in a pink shirt.

  • Peter rushed upstairs after hearing Aunt May scream and found her and Tandy staring at each other in shock.
  • At breakfast, Aunt May scolded Peter for bringing Tandy home and served him oatmeal while giving Tandy waffles.
  • Tandy told the family she had once wanted to be a model, and Peter remembered he had lost a bet to Flash and needed a pink shirt.
  • Peter noticed a newspaper headline claiming the Street Rats Gang had been wiped out and saw Tandy react with disbelief.
  • Matt called Peter and asked to meet Tandy at noon to discuss her case, offering to help her for free.
  • Aunt May said she would take Tandy to meet Matt and ordered Peter to go to school, while the family teased him about wearing pink.

Ch. 167The letter of authorization

Peter’s friends learned about Tandy and came to meet her, while Matt Murdock helped secure her legal protection from her family. The chapter left Tandy surrounded by Peter’s curious friends as they peppered her with questions.

  • Flash laughed at Peter’s pink cowboy shirt, and Peter told his friends that he had helped Tandy and let her stay at his home.
  • Peter brought Liz, Mary Jane, Mark, and Flash to his house to meet Tandy.
  • Matt Murdock told Tandy that her handwritten authorization letter and hospital injury assessment would protect her from being sent back to her family.
  • Peter and Matt privately acknowledged each other’s secret identities and discussed Peter’s reasons for wearing a mask.
  • Peter returned inside and found his friends questioning Tandy about her relationship with him and her interests.

Ch. 168Meaning

Peter left for the Baxter Building after Reed stabilized their quantum-field project, then joined Reed in opening a portal to the Antimatter Universe. After Reed questioned whether their work mattered if another universe had already achieved the same things, Peter reminded him they were working to help the people in their own world.

  • Tandy told Peter’s friends she was single, liked mellow music, and considered Peter her best friend before they all agreed to watch a movie.
  • Over the next few days, Tandy grew comfortable with MJ while the girls talked fashion in Peter’s room.
  • Peter received a message that the quantum field was stabilized and rushed to the Baxter Building to work with Reed.
  • Three days later, Peter and Reed activated their portal and saw the silent wasteland and dying stars of the Antimatter Universe.
  • Reed wondered whether their work mattered if another universe had already made the same discoveries, and Peter urged him to focus on helping their own world.

Ch. 169The Ancient One

After recovering from their three-day battle with Doctor Doom, Peter proposed using dimensional-energy research to cure Ben, then traveled to the New York Sanctum to meet the Ancient One. The Ancient One recognized Peter’s connection to her and dismissed the other masters, leaving them alone together.

  • Peter and Reed discussed curing Ben by combining their Antimatter Universe research with Peter’s knowledge of dimensional energy.
  • Peter slept for twelve hours, then went to 177A Bleecker Street and asked a master at the New York Sanctum to take him to Kamar-Taj.
  • The master brought Peter through the portal, where Peter saw the Eye of Agamotto and the Book of Time before passing Baron Mordo and the apprentices.
  • Peter met the Ancient One, shared tea with her, and revealed that his master had learned to add honey to tea from her.
  • The Ancient One asked Master Hamir and Master Benedict to leave, then remained in the hall with Peter.

Ch. 170The Web of Life

Peter met the Ancient One, revealed that he was a Spider-Totem connected to the Web of Life and Destiny, and was offered dangerous records to study because he could not train full-time at Kamar-Taj. The Ancient One said Peter’s future was obscured, and Peter began to explain the other reason for his visit.

  • Peter told the Ancient One that he had learned magic from his future self in a Mirror Dimension and showed her a spell circle bearing the Web of Life and Destiny’s symbol.
  • The Ancient One confirmed Peter’s connection to the Web and invited him to study at Kamar-Taj, but Peter explained that his school, laboratory work, and Spider-Man duties left little time.
  • The Ancient One gave Peter two books recording Master Carl Cole’s fatal attempts to draw on the Web’s power.
  • The Ancient One revealed that Stephen Strange was nearby and said she could see his destiny clearly, while Peter’s remained hidden.
  • Peter thanked the Ancient One for the books and began to tell her the other reason he had come.

Ch. 171Ben's Dimensional Energy

The Ancient One examined Peter's Antimatter Universe portal and assessed the Fantastic Four's dimensional-energy powers. She struck Ben with golden energy, and the rocky exterior of his body began to recede.

  • The Ancient One praised Peter's portal filtration system and said it could safely allow thirty minutes of exploration.
  • The Ancient One examined the Fantastic Four and explained that they unconsciously drew on dimensional energy to use their powers.
  • The Ancient One demonstrated fire control and invisibility, then told Johnny and Susan that their abilities were crude or distinct from what they assumed.
  • Ben asked whether the Ancient One could change him back, and she said his inability to regulate dimensional energy made his condition more complicated.
  • The Ancient One struck Ben in the abdomen, and golden energy spread as the rocky covering on his body began to melt away.

Ch. 172Only You

After the Ancient One explained that Ben’s body was constantly drawing dimensional energy into a rocky shell, Peter suggested teaching him to control that energy through magic. Ben left with the Ancient One for Kamar-Taj, while Reed was left feeling that nobody needed his help.

  • The Ancient One explained that Ben’s body produced too much dimensional energy to keep rocks from covering him, and that she could not disperse it.
  • Peter suggested that the Ancient One teach Ben a spell to control the energy inside his body, and she agreed it might work.
  • Ben packed his bags, said goodbye to Reed, Susan, Johnny, and Peter, then left with the Ancient One through a portal to Kamar-Taj.
  • After the portal closed, Peter explained who the Ancient One was and reassured Susan that Ben’s recovery depended on how his training went.
  • Reed told Peter he had always wanted to help Ben himself and felt that nobody needed him, then returned to his laboratory alone.

Ch. 173The Negative Zone

Peter helped Tandy win her freedom from her abusive mother and stepfather, then entered the Negative Zone with Reed's team to gather samples and seek funding for a major project. At the bottom of a pit, Peter discovered a crude stone hut and an extinguished campfire.

  • Matt rejected Melissa Carlyle's bribe and warned her and Philip to stay away from Tandy.
  • Matt won Tandy's custody hearing, and social services placed her in temporary foster care while her uncle was contacted.
  • Peter said goodbye to Tandy and prepared to explore the Negative Zone to raise money for a project.
  • Peter entered the Negative Zone through Reed's stabilized portal and collected samples of its lava and crystals.
  • Peter spotted a stone hut and an extinguished campfire at the bottom of a pit.

Ch. 174A Windfall

Peter searched the Negative Zone, found evidence of Doctor Doom’s experiments, and brought back a huge deposit of valuable ore. After the team uncovered a diamond and sold the mined treasures, Peter received forty million dollars toward his goal.

  • Peter found Doctor Doom’s abandoned research room and took photographs of its formulas and a slab carved with dark magic runes.
  • Peter located a rich mineral vein, extracted a massive column of ore, and escaped through the portal before it closed.
  • Peter returned to the Baxter Building and gave Reed samples from the Negative Zone for analysis.
  • Peter, Susan, and Johnny cut into the ore and discovered a large natural diamond at its center.
  • Peter and the others mined the Negative Zone for a week and sold gold, platinum, and diamonds for eighty million dollars.
  • Susan allocated forty million dollars to the Baxter Foundation, and the other forty million went into Peter’s account.

Ch. 175The cancer behind the scenes

Peter welcomed Tandy to Midtown High School, then Spider-Man defeated the Street Rats Gang and decided to target the corrupt officials he believed were enabling crime. He left the chapter planning to wiretap politicians despite the risk of being branded a dangerous criminal.

  • Tandy transferred to Midtown High School after discussing it with Uncle Michael, and Liz and MJ welcomed her.
  • Spider-Man trapped the Street Rats Gang inside its hideout, then used the fire alarm to draw dozens of gang members into a dark alley.
  • Peter defeated and webbed more than forty gang members, then anonymously called the police to arrest them.
  • Peter reflected on how poverty and corrupt officials sustained street crime and resolved to uproot the people behind it.
  • Peter decided to spend time wiretapping politicians, accepting that the authorities might label him a dangerous individual.
Arc 7 of 11
Arc 7 of 11