Chapter Summaries

Strange and Mordo tried to free a little girl’s pure soul from Mephisto’s brazier while Mephisto fought to escape his restraints. After Peter severed Mephisto’s branded arm and Mordo banished him, Peter plunged his hands into the Fire of Truth to save the girl.

• Strange freed Peter from his chains and warned that Mephisto would soon break free, while Mordo insisted they had to rescue the girl trapped in the brazier.
• Strange worked to undo the brazier’s wards as Peter bound Mephisto with the Wand of Watoomb, but Mephisto broke loose and grabbed Peter by the neck.
• Peter drove his claws into the spider mark on Mephisto’s arm and tore it off, causing Mephisto to howl in pain.
• Mordo completed an incantation that banished Mephisto to another dimension, and Peter stored the severed arm in his infinite storage bag.
• Strange explained that only a pure-hearted person could pass through the Fire of Truth, and Peter thrust both hands into the flames.

Peter escaped Mephisto's realm with the preserved soul and returned to his original world when the hell energy activated his dormant dimensional energy. He left Strange and Mordo with urgent messages for his friends and family before arriving in a familiar laboratory, where someone rushed to embrace him.

• Peter escaped through Strange's portal with the girl's soul after cutting down an imp that followed him.
• Strange sent the soul to a safe resting place, and Mordo warned Peter that Mephisto would seek revenge.
• Peter's dimensional energy activated, and he asked Strange to pass messages to Aunt May, Felicia, Felicity, Franklin, and others.
• Peter was pulled through a green wormhole and crashed into a laboratory in his original world.
• Someone recognized Peter and lunged at him, hugging him to the floor.

Peter returned from a realm where he had spent three months, though only two hours passed at home, and reunited with Susan, Reed, Johnny, and Liz. After seeing news that six dangerous criminals had escaped and were coming for Norman, Peter told Susan he might need to leave.

• Peter asked Reed to destroy the machine that had sent him away, then went with Susan, Johnny, and Liz to get food.
• Peter ate pizza and said he felt like himself again after his journey.
• The news reported that Max Dillon, Alexei Sytsevich, Flint Marko, Adrian Toomes, Herman Schultz, and Otto Octavius had escaped from a containment facility in Westchester.
• The news showed the fugitives' message: "Norman, we're coming for you."
• Peter told Susan he might need to head out.

Otto Gunther Octavius formed an alliance with five dangerous inmates and led a breakout from Ravencroft, setting the group on a path of revenge against Norman Osborn. Peter learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. could not spare agents to pursue them and prepared to intervene himself.

• After his cellmates nearly beat him to death, Otto’s neural system awakened, and guards transferred him to Ravencroft’s special confinement wing.
• Otto recruited Adrian Toomes, Alexei Sytsevich, Flint Marko, Herman Schultz, and Max Dillon by exploiting their grudges and offering them a chance to escape.
• Otto learned from Dr. Kafka that the prisoners’ equipment was stored in a vault beneath the asylum and put his escape plan into action.
• Marko broke into the vault, and the group retrieved their equipment before Alexei smashed through Ravencroft’s outer wall and the six inmates escaped.
• Peter called Nick Fury, learned S.H.I.E.L.D. was occupied by a crisis involving Doctor Doom and could not pursue the fugitives, then suited up and told Sassy to call Harry.

Peter retrieved his repaired high-tech suit from Bruce at Avengers Tower and prepared to confront Otto and the five other escaped criminals. Meanwhile, Otto’s group armed themselves and set an ambush for Norman Osborn’s police escort near Times Square.

• Peter called Harry, learned he and Norman were at a downtown penthouse, and decided he needed stronger gear to face the escaped criminals.
• Peter landed at Avengers Tower, where Bruce recognized him and brought him to the laboratory.
• Bruce showed Peter the repaired red-and-black suit Tony had kept for him, and Peter decided to stop standing by and fight Otto’s group.
• Peter’s suit AI, Sassy, reported that Otto and his accomplices were headed toward 46th Street, and Bruce offered to help.
• Peter proposed using one of the displayed armors for tactical support, while Otto’s group retrieved equipment from Toomes’s hideout and prepared to attack Norman’s convoy near Times Square.

Spider-Man and Bruce confronted the Sinister Six as they rampaged through Manhattan, rescuing civilians and fighting back. Peter left Sandman weakened by water as the battle continued.

• Otto and the Sinister Six burst from a truck at 45th Street and attacked the crowded streets, causing widespread destruction.
• Peter and Bruce used Iron Man armor and webbing to shield a mother and daughter from Electro’s attack and evacuate them.
• Bruce’s armor drove Electro back, while Peter confronted Otto, Shocker, and Sandman.
• Peter blasted holes through Sandman, then drenched him with water from a broken fire hydrant, turning his body to mud and slowing him down.

Peter overcame his fear and turned Electro’s lightning into a massive energy charge, destroying the Rhino armor with one blast. The remaining villains still faced him as he marked his first victory.

• Peter evaded Otto, Alexei, and Schultz’s attacks, then lured Electro into striking him with a powerful arc that detonated the pursuing missiles.
• The blast triggered Peter’s memories of Doctor Doom, and Bruce caught him with an Iron Man Armor before Otto destroyed it and threw Peter to the ground.
• Peter stood between the assembled villains and Norman Osborn’s trapped convoy, refusing to surrender.
• Electro’s lightning charged Peter’s suit to 400%, allowing Peter to unleash a destructive chest beam that wrecked the Rhino armor.
• Peter called the defeated Rhino armor his first victory.

Peter defeated Otto and the other supervillains, rescued Harry, and returned to fighting as Spider-Man. As police and firefighters arrived, the crowd celebrated him, and Peter accepted that he had found his reason to fight again.

• Peter knocked out Shocker, used sewage and liquid nitrogen to freeze Sandman, and blasted Vulture out of the sky with a magical shock wave.
• Otto attacked Norman Osborn and seized him, while Harry tried to stop Otto with a handgun; Otto hurled Harry onto the road, leaving him unconscious and bleeding.
• Peter returned on the falling Vulture, cut through Otto’s mechanical arms with bone claws, and knocked Otto unconscious with an armored punch.
• Peter sent Bruce to take Harry to a hospital, then disarmed and restrained the defeated villains as emergency crews approached.
• The crowd cheered Spider-Man, and Peter realized he had found his reason to fight again.

After defeating the Sinister Six, Peter argued with Richard about returning to crime-fighting and reunited with his friends at the Baxter Building. He confirmed the dangerous device had been destroyed and prepared to show Susan and Reed photos of what he had experienced beyond the portal.

• Peter told Richard he would keep being Spider-Man despite his father's angry objections.
• Peter learned Mary Jane Watson said he owed her fifty bucks and headed to the Baxter Building.
• Liz hugged Peter, then scolded him for fighting the Sinister Six alone, while Johnny pulled her away.
• Susan scolded Peter for risking his life, and he agreed to handle the foundation's laundry for a month.
• Reed confirmed he had dismantled the device and erased its data and backups.
• Peter took out his phone and asked Sassy to display photos of his adventures beyond the portal.

Peter told the Fantastic Four about the future world he had visited, then returned home and reconnected with his worried family. Two days later, as Christmas break began, he met MJ and Liz at a café while an online conspiracy theory claimed Captain America had impersonated Spider-Man.

• Peter showed Reed and Susan a photo of their future family and described his adventures with Franklin and the Fantastic Five.
• Peter returned home, reassured Richard that he was safe, and thanked Richard, Uncle Ben, and Aunt May for supporting him.
• Peter shared a warm dinner with his family and felt secure with the people he wanted to protect.
• Two days later, Peter met MJ and Liz at their favorite café as Christmas break began.
• An online conspiracy theory claimed Spider-Man was dead and Captain America had worn a Spider-Man suit to save New York.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.