Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Harry Osborn returned to Midtown High after a sudden recovery, but Peter’s Spider-Sense had reacted to him with an unprecedented warning. Peter suspected Norman had injected Harry with an unfinished Green Goblin Serum and left the cafeteria wary of his old friend.

• Peter helped Flash and other students with complex-number problems while MJ revealed that Tandy wanted to ask him out for Valentine’s Day.
• Peter’s Spider-Sense erupted when Harry appeared at the lunch table, then quieted after Peter recognized him.
• Harry gave Peter a belated Christmas present and claimed that treatment at a Swiss sanatorium had cured him.
• Peter noticed Harry’s sudden physical transformation and suspected Norman had used the unfinished Green Goblin Serum on him.
• Harry met Tandy and showed interest in her, prompting Peter to step between them before leaving when the bell rang.

Peter discovered that Norman Osborn’s shelved Green Field project was the Green Goblin Serum and saw Harry take a dose from his father. He built and tested a surveillance drone equipped to identify Green Goblin gear, then set it to track Harry using a nanotracker.

• Peter searched Osborn Enterprises’ server and found the Green Field report identifying a human-enhancement serum project.
• Peter joined Harry and their friends at a café, then secretly watched Norman give Harry a vial of green liquid that Harry drank.
• Peter built a miniature surveillance drone and tested its recording and Green Goblin identification systems.
• Peter configured the drone to track Harry through the nanotracker he had secretly placed in Harry’s drink.

Peter rushed to Xavier Mansion after Jean called him and found the X-Men badly injured following Magneto’s escape. The Brotherhood of Mutants had helped Magneto break out, and Evan was missing after being gravely wounded.

• Peter received the final twenty-million-dollar auction payment from Susan and said he had nearly saved enough money for his secret plan.
• Jean called Peter in an exhausted voice and asked him to come to Xavier Mansion.
• Peter flew to the mansion and found Jean and the other X-Men injured beside a damaged Blackbird.
• Logan told Peter that Magneto had escaped with help from the Brotherhood of Mutants and that Evan had been hurt the worst.
• Ororo blamed herself for pursuing Magneto after he and the Brotherhood flew away.

Peter joined the X-Men after Magneto escaped and learned that Magneto planned to target him. The group prepared to lure Magneto to the mansion, and Peter began planning defenses as they identified Magneto’s allies.

• Ororo blamed herself for Evan’s injuries, but Logan told her that Quicksilver was responsible.
• Peter contacted Fury, who confirmed Magneto had escaped but said S.H.I.E.L.D. was too busy handling worldwide incidents to help.
• Jean warned Peter that Magneto had named him as his next target, and the X-Men explained that they had moved Evan to safety.
• Peter agreed to fight alongside the X-Men, and Kitty’s questions led him to reveal that he was Peter Parker.
• Peter took charge of the mansion’s laboratory, planned defensive preparations, and asked the X-Men to identify Magneto’s allies.

Peter prepared the X-Men to counter Magneto’s Brotherhood, then confronted Magneto at the estate as Quicksilver effortlessly stopped a machine-gun attack. Magneto ordered Pietro to take Peter down so he could prove that humanity was the true cause of the conflict.

• Peter assigned Kurt to stop Toad with cryo-grenades and Scott to launch Blob with optic blasts.
• Peter told Jean and the headmaster to handle Avalanche, and instructed Kitty to remove his telepathy-blocking helmet.
• Peter planned to counter the speedster with visual blind spots and physical misdirection.
• Magneto arrived at the estate with Mystique and the Brotherhood after learning Peter was there.
• Peter triggered a concealed machine gun, but Pietro caught every bullet and mocked him.
• Magneto claimed he wanted Peter to see humanity’s true nature, then ordered Pietro to take him down.