Chapter Summaries

Peter spent Friday night reconnecting with Felicia and showing her and Wanda his Unstable Molecule Fabric suits in the underground lab. There, he sensed something was wrong with the Vibranium case, though the Mind Stone and its runes appeared normal.

• Peter promised to destroy the empathy-network blueprints and data if the technology threatened humanity's freedom or went out of control.
• Jean left the mansion with Duncan, while Logan drove Kurt, Evan, and Kitty to a party.
• Peter shared Logan's beer with Felicia, Wanda, Rogue, and Scott, and Felicia's resentment toward him faded as they laughed together.
• Wanda asked about Peter's shapeshifting combat suits, so he took her and Felicia to the underground lab and demonstrated the Unstable Molecule Fabric.
• Peter sensed an unseen disturbance near the Vibranium case and checked it, but the runes worked normally and the Mind Stone's energy appeared unchanged.

Peter discovered a group of mysterious intruders stealing the Mind Stone and recognized a younger version of his own face among them. After they escaped in his hover car, Peter was knocked from the sky, leaving him and Wanda wondering who the raiders were.

• Peter sensed an intruder in the laboratory and clashed with a silver-haired boy who looked like his younger self, while recognizing Jean among the others.
• The intruders fled with a holographic imitation in place of the Mind Stone, and Sassy reported that they had overridden its security using identical core algorithms.
• Peter chased the group through the elevator shaft and into the sky, then caught hold of his stolen hover car.
• The redheaded girl used telekinetic force and the little girl unleashed a powerful sonic blast, sending Peter falling before psychic energy slowed his descent.
• Felicia and Wanda helped Peter up, and Wanda asked who the raiders were as Peter recalled clues linking them to his past.

After Hydra suspects stole the Mind Stone using apparent clones of Peter and Jean, Peter and the X-Men tracked them to the Baxter Building. They entered the building and discovered that someone had erased every scent from the floor, leaving them braced for an ambush.

• Peter told Xavier, Ororo, Felicia, and Wanda that a silver-haired boy and a redheaded girl had stolen the Mind Stone, and they suspected Hydra was behind it.
• Wanda agreed to help recover the Stone, while Peter explained that he could track his car by following its residual meson trail.
• Ororo picked up Logan, Kurt, Evan, Kitty, and Jean from the dance, and Peter traced the car’s trail to the Baxter Building.
• Peter called Susan Storm but got no answer, so the team prepared to investigate the building.
• Peter led the team into the Baxter Building, where he and Logan detected that someone had used a field to erase every scent from the floor.

Peter and the X-Men confronted three young intruders in his laboratory as they attempted to combine the Mind Stone with a damaged fragment. After Peter touched the two pieces and was pulled into a white void, he met an older version of himself.

• Peter discovered Susan and Johnny restrained in his laboratory with the three intruders from Xavier's mansion.
• The intruders, Ben, Hope, and Stephen, tried to merge the Mind Stone with a damaged fragment while Hope used magic to manipulate the Stone.
• Peter led Logan, Evan, Kurt, Kitty, and Jean in an attack to rescue the Storms and stop the intruders.
• Jean and Hope fought over the Stone, but the whole Stone and fragment collided, releasing a golden energy storm that injured Hope and knocked everyone back.
• Peter grabbed both pieces of the Stone, and its energy pulled his consciousness into a vast white void.
• Peter met a scarred, older version of himself, who told him he already knew who he was.

Future Peter warned Peter that Thanos would devastate the universe and showed him visions of the original Marvel storyline, urging him to destroy or control an Infinity Stone. Back on the rooftop, Peter stopped Ororo from attacking the time-traveling youths and recognized Hope as his daughter.

• Future Peter revealed that Thanos had killed half the universe and that victory had come at an unbearable cost.
• Future Peter filled Peter's mind with visions of the original storyline and warned him that an Infinity Stone was the key to thwarting Thanos.
• Peter woke as Felicia tended to him, then rushed to the rooftop where Ororo was preparing to strike the three young intruders with lightning.
• Peter shielded the youths from Ororo and recognized the red-haired girl as his daughter Hope Parker.
• Hope embraced Peter and explained that he had once said Jean Grey would want their daughter named Hope.
• Ben revealed that the youths had traveled through time and wondered how Peter had identified them.

Peter met the three time-traveling children who warned him that Thanos would use the Infinity Stones to destroy half of all life. After Benjamin blamed Peter for the future catastrophe, Hope explained that their real plan was to use a Time Stone fragment to prevent the present-day Mind Stone from ever working with the other stones.

• Peter learned that Hope, Stephanie Magda Parker, and Benjamin Walter Parker were his future children, and Stephanie revealed that Wanda was her mother while Benjamin identified Felicia as his.
• Benjamin told Peter that Thanos would wipe out half the universe and blamed Peter for hesitating, while Hope said Jean died using the Phoenix Force to protect their family during an attack.
• Peter withdrew to the laboratory, and Hope comforted him by explaining that many people, including Felicia, Tony, and Thor, had died in their future resistance.
• Hope revealed that the children planned to use a sealed Time Stone fragment to create a logical deadlock in the present-day Mind Stone, preventing it from resonating with the other Infinity Stones.

Hope and Peter sealed the gems’ core energy, preventing Thanos from using them in this timeline, before Hope, Benjamin, and Stephanie returned to the future. Shaken by the warning, Peter decided to go to Kamar-Taj to become stronger, and Jean, Felicia, and Wanda insisted on going with him.

• Peter helped Hope stabilize the gems, and Hope sealed their core energy into single-user mode.
• Hope told everyone that Thanos’s threat was over in this timeline, then she, Benjamin, and Stephanie vanished into the future.
• Peter realized he was too weak to protect the future and decided to learn magic at Kamar-Taj.
• Jean and Felicia offered to go with Peter, and Wanda joined them so she could train to protect her future children.
• Peter agreed that they would go together and asked who would tell Professor Xavier and the others.

Peter, Felicia, Jean, and Wanda left Xavier’s School and traveled to the New York Sanctum to seek refuge and study magic. The Ancient One welcomed Peter at Kamar-Taj, noting that he had arrived late.

• Peter changed into his old mage robes, packed his supplies, and joined Felicia before they said goodbye to the people at Xavier’s School.
• Peter and the three women flew to a parking garage near the New York Sanctum, where he told the onboard AI to reserve a space and enter standby mode.
• Peter asked guardian mage Daniel Drumm to let them enter the Sanctum so they could seek refuge and learn magic.
• Daniel Drumm let the group into the Sanctum after saying the Sorcerer Supreme had expected them.
• Peter led the group through the Sanctum’s portal to Kamar-Taj, where the Ancient One greeted him and said he was late.

Peter brought Jean Grey, Felicia Hardy, and Wanda Maximoff to Kamar-Taj for training and refuge, where they reunited with Tandy Bowen and Ben Grimm. The Ancient One told Peter to accept her destined death, but he refused and declared that he would change the future, leaving their argument unresolved.

• The Ancient One agreed to train Jean Grey, Felicia Hardy, and Wanda Maximoff in mysticism and combat at Kamar-Taj.
• Tandy Bowen rushed to greet Peter and clashed with Felicia over how Felicia had treated him.
• Ben Grimm welcomed Peter, and the Ancient One assigned rooms to Peter and the others.
• The Ancient One summoned Peter for tea and revealed that she knew he had learned of her death at Kaecilius's hands.
• Peter rejected the Ancient One's appeal to accept fate and said he would postpone her death to help face the battles ahead.
• The Ancient One asked whether Peter intended to take on every burden that should have belonged to others.

Peter committed to the responsibility of leading the new generation of heroes and began intensive mystic-arts training at Kamar-Taj. Months later, he had become a skilled master, while Felicia still struggled to sense magic and Tandy questioned why he kept helping her.

• The Ancient One warned Peter that announcing the Heroic Age had made him a target, and he accepted the burden and agreed to begin training at dawn.
• Felicia and Jean talked openly with Peter about their feelings, and the three promised to face future dangers together.
• Peter trained for several months, advanced rapidly in the mystic arts, and turned seventeen while Jean and Felicia celebrated privately.
• Peter demonstrated his combat skills and conjured a magical battle-axe during training with Master Mordo, who admitted he had misjudged him.
• Tandy told Peter that Felicia lacked talent for sensing magic, but Peter used telepathy and shared meditation memories to help Felicia relax.

Peter helped Felicia master opening a portal, but the Time Stone’s dangerous surge revealed that Stephen Strange was using it without permission as Kaecilius’s betrayal began. Peter rushed toward the underground chamber where Strange, Mordo, and Wong were speaking.

• Peter told Tandy the truth about Felicia’s past and his relationship with her and Jean.
• Ben showed Peter and Tandy that he could briefly reveal human skin beneath the rocky shell on his finger.
• Peter found Felicia practicing alone and encouraged her until she opened a portal with her Sling Ring.
• Peter sensed the Time Stone altering reality and realized Stephen Strange was using it without permission.
• Peter sent Felicia to alert Jean, Wanda, and the Sorcerer Supreme, then hurried to the underground chamber, where Strange, Mordo, and Wong discussed giving Strange a lesson.

Peter and Strange were trapped in the New York Sanctum after Kaecilius destroyed the London Sanctum. As Kaecilius attacked Daniel Drumm, Peter sensed a mysterious connection to a black greatsword displayed in the sanctum.

• Wong explained that the three sanctums protected Earth from incursions by other dimensions, and Strange learned that Kaecilius’s stolen pages revealed how to contact the Dark Dimension.
• Kaecilius destroyed the London Sanctum, and Peter pulled Strange through the passage to the New York Sanctum before the blast wave struck.
• Peter and Strange searched the New York Sanctum for Daniel Drumm, while Peter felt a strong resonance with a black greatsword in the relic room.
• Peter and Strange found Drumm guarding the entrance, but Kaecilius and two zealots entered after twisting the sanctum’s space.
• Kaecilius confronted Drumm and formed two crystalline blades as his zealots moved to attack from either side.

Peter fought Kaecilius and his zealots at the New York Sanctum, but Drumm was killed and Kaecilius trapped Peter in the Mirror Dimension. Peter escaped the Sanctum’s lock only to emerge in Central Park, while Strange remained in danger inside.

• Peter saved Drumm from Kaecilius’s blade, defeated the female zealot, and sent her through a portal to Kamar-Taj.
• Peter and Drumm fought Kaecilius, who twisted the Mirror Dimension and stabbed Drumm through the flank and heart.
• Peter shattered Kaecilius’s crystal blades with bone spikes and rushed to Drumm, but Drumm died after warning him to protect the Sanctum.
• Kaecilius sent Peter plunging into a deeper layer of the Mirror Dimension while Strange fled toward the second floor with Kaecilius pursuing him.
• Peter forced open a portal, but the Sanctum’s defenses displaced him to Central Park.

Peter fought Kaecilius at the New York Sanctum and awakened the Ebony Blade, forcing Kaecilius to flee. After the Ancient One explained the sword’s curse, she offered Stephen Strange the role of guardian of the New York Sanctum, but Strange refused, shaken by having killed someone.

• Peter returned from Metropolitan General Hospital to the New York Sanctum and attacked Kaecilius, who broke free of the magic array.
• Kaecilius struck Peter through the display room with an enchanted war hammer, and Peter found and drew the Ebony Blade from the rubble.
• Peter’s Ebony Blade destroyed Kaecilius’s crystalline blades and wounded his arm, prompting Kaecilius to flee through the skylight.
• The Ancient One and Mordo warned Peter that the Ebony Blade could corrupt its wielder, while Peter kept it after it had saved his life.
• The Ancient One offered Stephen Strange guardianship of the New York Sanctum, but Strange objected that he was a doctor and refused to kill again.

Peter saved the Ancient One from her destined fall and joined forces with Strange and Mordo as the Sanctums fell. At the ruined Hong Kong Sanctum, Strange activated the Eye of Agamotto and began reversing time, restoring the neighborhood and its dead.

• Strange sent everyone into the Mirror Dimension, but Peter escaped and covered three blocks with webs to catch the Ancient One when Kaecilius wounded her and she fell from the sky.
• Peter caught the Ancient One and sealed her wound with nano-webbing, while Strange carried her toward a hospital and Mordo warned Peter that he had exposed his identity.
• Peter declared the Heroic Age, then returned to Kamar-Taj and assembled Jean, Wanda, Ben Grimm, Felicia, and Tandy to defend Hong Kong after the New York Sanctum fell.
• The portal to Hong Kong collapsed, but Strange, Mordo, and the surviving Ancient One arrived; Peter led them through a new portal to the destroyed Hong Kong Sanctum.
• Peter, the Ancient One, and Mordo drove Kaecilius back while Strange activated the Eye of Agamotto and reversed time across Hong Kong, reviving the dead and restoring the ruined streets.

Peter and the others fought Kaecilius’s followers while Strange used the Time Stone and repeated time loops to close the Dark Dimension’s foothold. After the crisis, Strange accepted the role of New York Sanctum’s guardian, Peter became temporary guardian of the London Sanctum, and Peter left Strange bewildered by claiming that Stephen Doctor Strange had taught him the mystic arts.

• Ben Grimm, Jean, Wanda, Felicia, and Peter fought Kaecilius’s followers as the battle unfolded in reverse time.
• The Ancient One restored the Sanctum and its dead, but she could not close the dark rift, so Strange flew into the Dark Dimension to confront Dormammu.
• Strange repeated a time loop until the vortex collapsed, dragging Kaecilius and the remaining zealots into the Dark Dimension.
• At Kamar-Taj, Strange declined the offer to heal his hands and accepted guardianship of the New York Sanctum, while Peter agreed to serve temporarily at the London Sanctum with Jean and Felicia as assistants.
• Peter told Strange that Stephen Doctor Strange had first guided him into the mystic arts, then left through the portal to London as Strange stood bewildered.

Peter settled into the London Sanctum with Jean, Felicia, and Wanda, then returned to his laboratory to advance his research. After discovering how vibranium could promote plant growth and noticing interference linked to the Mind Stone, he began rebuilding his suit around a new vibranium-and-badassium core powered by the Stone.

• Peter finished moving into the London Sanctum, where Jean, Felicia, and Wanda had unpacked and settled in.
• Peter returned to his laboratory, where Sassy reported that the toxins in his blood had nearly cleared and that he could attempt the Mutant Spider Project again.
• Peter examined seedlings grown with a vibranium mixture and detected unusual interference that he suspected came from the Mind Stone.
• Peter conceived a plan to combine vibranium, badassium, and the Mind Stone in a new power core for his suit.
• Peter embedded the Mind Stone in the new Arc Reactor, turning its glow gold, and began modifying the rest of the suit.

Peter told Jean, Felicia, and Wanda about the powerful mutant blood he had saved from a parallel universe and prepared a new suit powered by a Mind Stone core. After building a recovery pod to counter possible radiation poisoning, he began preparing to use Franklin Richards's blood.

• Peter explained that his blood could absorb abilities and revealed the vial of blood from a mutant stronger than Omega-level, saying he might use it to prepare for future threats.
• Peter described meeting his future self and daughter Mayday on Earth-982, then endured the women’s guesses about his daughter’s mother.
• Peter finished a compact suit containing vibranium-infused UMF nanobots and a Mind Stone power core, then tested its transformations and Repulsor Cannon nozzle.
• Peter designed a vibranium-lined recovery pod to help his body heal from possible radiation poisoning caused by Franklin Richards's blood.
• Peter gathered with Jean, Felicia, and Wanda in the laboratory, activated the recovery pod, and retrieved Franklin's blood from its indestructible test tube.

Peter inhaled a vaporized mixture made from Franklin’s blood and spent hours recovering as the vibranium pod accelerated his adaptation. The next day, he saw a news report of a new Spider-Woman in New York and recognized her as his legacy, leaving him curious about her powers.

• Peter inhaled the gas made from Franklin’s blood, collapsed in pain, and was placed in the vibranium recovery pod by Jean, Wanda, and Felicia.
• After more than five hours unconscious, Peter learned from Sassy that his blood toxicity had fallen to twenty percent and that his brain had undergone minor changes.
• Peter recovered, spent the night with Jean and Felicia, and found no newly awakened powers during a scan the next morning.
• Peter researched vibranium equipment before joining Jean to watch a report about a woman who had defeated Shocker in New York.
• Peter recognized the masked woman as Spider-Woman and called her the first hero of a new generation and his legacy.

Peter prepared a gift of equipment and training materials for Gwen Stacy, then followed her through a day of crime-fighting and decided she could become a hero with his guidance. After visiting Matt in Hell's Kitchen, Peter learned that Harry had been protecting New York as Glider and set out to reconnect with him.

• Peter packed a custom suit, Silk-Shooters, and combat notes for Gwen, then left the Sanctum after promising Wanda help with a spell and Jean and Felicia a date.
• Peter found Gwen at Empire State University and followed her as she rescued five people from a burning apartment building and later stopped several crimes.
• Peter watched Gwen return home exhausted and decided to meet her the next day to discuss what it meant to carry the Spider name.
• Peter visited Hell's Kitchen and reunited with Matt, who agreed to help mentor Gwen after Peter asked him.
• Matt told Peter that Harry had become Glider and helped stabilize New York, so Peter planned to visit him.