Chapter Summaries

Tony took Pepper, Morgan, Lynn, and Natasha on a family trip to several peaceful planets, where Morgan explored alien seas, glowing forests, and blue-lit snow. After they returned, JARVIS detected a small energy burst in a valley while Peter was in Europe, and Lynn suspected trouble was coming.

• Tony invited Pepper, Morgan, Lynn, and Natasha on a low-risk trip to see several planets, while Peter went to Europe with his classmates.
• On a pale blue planet, Morgan played in the shallows with Tony as Pepper, Lynn, and Natasha watched.
• The group visited a glowing forest and a snowy planet, where Morgan explored the lights and built a small snowman with Tony.
• On the night before returning, Tony told Lynn he wanted to bring his family back when Morgan was older and planned to advance E.D.I.T.H. after the trip.
• After the group returned to Earth, JARVIS detected a small energy burst in a valley, and Lynn wondered if it was beginning.

Peter Parker struggled with the pressure of becoming a leader before investigating anomalous energy pulses in Europe, where he encountered a mysterious man and a stone creature. The chapter ended as Peter prepared to attack the creature while the fishbowl-helmeted man watched.

• Peter fled Aunt May's charity gala after reporters questioned him about succeeding Tony, and Happy reassured him backstage.
• Peter traveled to Venice with his school, where an abnormal hurricane disrupted his plans to confess to MJ.
• Tony and Lynn assigned Peter to investigate anomalous energy pulses, and JARVIS briefed him on similar incidents in Europe, Mexico, and Morocco.
• Peter investigated a nearby town and learned locals had seen a giant face in the strange wind.
• Peter followed rising energy readings into a valley, where he found a fishbowl-helmeted man and a stone creature that attacked him.
• JARVIS advised Peter to target the creature's glowing joints as Peter prepared to charge.

Peter Parker and Quentin Beck defeated a regenerating earth Elemental, after which Beck revealed the wider threat and asked SSC for help. JARVIS gave Peter temporary authority over the crisis, leaving him to confront his doubts about leading the response.

• Peter fought the stone giant, but its earth-powered body rapidly regenerated from his attacks.
• Quentin Beck intervened with green smoke that suppressed the giant's regeneration, allowing Peter to destroy its energy cores and defeat it.
• Beck introduced himself as Mysterio and explained that the Elementals came from black holes and threatened to destroy Earth.
• Beck told Peter that his comrades had died fighting the Elementals and asked SSC to help stop the remaining creatures.
• JARVIS reported that Thor, Carol Danvers, and Doctor Strange were unavailable, while Tony Stark and Lynn granted Peter SSC's highest temporary authority.
• Peter accepted that the crisis was under his control but stood burdened by doubts about his ability to lead.

Peter hesitated to trust Quentin Beck, but joined him when a Water Elemental attacked Venice, helping evacuate civilians before they destroyed it on the tidal flats. Back at the hotel, Peter hid the danger from Ned and struggled with his worsening abilities and the responsibility placed on him.

• Peter told Quentin Beck he needed time before deciding whether to trust him, and they exchanged contact details before parting.
• Peter returned to Venice, bought MJ a black dahlia pendant, and discovered a Water Elemental rising from a canal.
• Peter and Quentin Beck lured the Water Elemental out of the crowded city, where they exposed and destroyed its energy core.
• Peter rescued civilians during the attack, then refused Ned's offer to help because he feared the danger and his own declining condition.
• Peter asked JARVIS what he should do, heard Lynn's message about responsibility, and cut off communication as his doubts overwhelmed him.

Peter received full authorization to E.D.I.T.H. just as his study group’s plans changed from Venice to Prague, disrupting his hopes of confessing to MJ. When Quentin Beck revealed that the Fire Elemental threatened Prague, Peter agreed to help and, after admitting his fears to Beck, renewed his determination to face the final battle.

• JARVIS told Peter that Tony Stark had transferred full authorization to E.D.I.T.H., giving him access to its resources and support systems.
• The supervising teacher announced that the study group would leave Venice for four days and three nights in Prague, forcing Peter to search for a new place to confess to MJ.
• Quentin Beck warned Peter that the powerful Fire Elemental had appeared near Prague and could grow by absorbing metal, threatening the city; Peter agreed to meet him and fight it.
• After the group reached Prague, Peter met Quentin Beck on the hotel rooftop and admitted that he felt unprepared, overwhelmed, and eager to return to an ordinary life.
• Quentin Beck encouraged Peter by reminding him that responsibility meant stepping forward despite fear, and Peter resolved to face the Fire Elemental.

Peter and Quentin confronted the Fire Elemental in Prague Square, where Peter rescued MJ, Ned, and Betty from a stranded Ferris wheel cabin. The monster evolved by absorbing metal, and as Peter and Quentin struggled to contain it, Quentin prepared a final attack and warned Peter to have a backup plan.

• Peter used JARVIS and E.D.I.T.H. to arrange tickets at the Prague Royal Opera House for the study tour, then traveled with Quentin to watch Prague Square.
• MJ, Betty, and Ned left the opera house looking for Peter and boarded a Ferris wheel in Prague Square as the Fire Elemental erupted from underground.
• Peter and Quentin attacked the Fire Elemental, but Peter broke away to carry the stranded Ferris wheel cabin and its passengers to safety.
• The Fire Elemental absorbed nearby metal and grew stronger, forcing Peter and Quentin to resume their attack against its increased power.
• Quentin told Peter that his next attack would use all his remaining energy and warned him to prepare a backup plan.

Peter and Quentin defeated the final Fire Elemental in Prague, ending the threat to Earth. Peter reunited with MJ, Ned, and Betty, then confessed his feelings to MJ, who returned them.

• Quentin unleashed a concentrated attack that destroyed the Fire Elemental, and Peter confirmed that all four Elementals had vanished.
• Peter checked on MJ, Ned, and Betty, gave Ned a cover story for his absence, and escorted them back to the hotel.
• Peter went to MJ's room and invited her for a walk; she agreed and showed him a strange mechanical fragment she had found in the square.
• Peter gave MJ the black dahlia pendant and confessed that he liked her.
• MJ told Peter she liked him too, and they embraced, kissed, and walked through Prague together.

Peter invited Quentin Beck to join SSC under a three-month observation period, and Quentin accepted after touring the base. Though he seemed to settle in as a reliable recruit, he secretly mapped SSC’s security and probed its systems while Peter continued to suspect Quentin had interfered with his webs in Prague.

• Peter asked JARVIS about SSC’s recruitment rules and offered Quentin a three-month evaluation period with limited access and basic support.
• Quentin agreed to visit SSC, and Peter sent him the base coordinates and access codes.
• After touring the base, Quentin accepted the offer and received a room and temporary access privileges.
• Quentin behaved like a cooperative recruit, training regularly and earning the staff’s trust.
• At night, Quentin recorded SSC’s layout and security weaknesses and covertly probed its core devices.
• Peter remained troubled by the unexplained disruptions that had caused his webs to miss during the Prague battle.

Quentin Beck manipulated Peter's trust to gain higher clearance at the SSC base, while JARVIS monitored his covert communications and Tony and Lynn chose not to interfere. After Peter secured Beck level-two access, Beck secretly downloaded and sent base information to his hidden team.

• Quentin comforted Peter and used his worries and research needs to encourage Peter to seek higher clearance for him.
• JARVIS detected encrypted signals from Quentin's room and reported his suspicious activity to Tony and Lynn.
• Lynn explained to Tony, Pepper, and Natasha that Quentin Beck was a disgruntled scientist posing as a hero to infiltrate SSC, and they decided to let Peter's experience unfold under JARVIS's watch.
• Peter told Quentin he trusted him and had expedited his level-two clearance upgrade, while JARVIS shielded SSC's most sensitive files.
• After Peter left, Quentin downloaded the newly accessible records and secretly transmitted them to his teammates.

Quentin continued gaining Peter’s trust while secretly stealing SSC information, unaware that JARVIS monitored and fed his team harmless data. After recognizing that a fragment from Prague resembled Tony’s abandoned holographic experiments, Peter grew suspicious of the disaster’s origins but dismissed his doubts and planned to ask Quentin for advice.

• Quentin volunteered for routine base work, comforted Peter, and used their conversations to extract SSC information for his team.
• JARVIS recorded Quentin’s covert transmissions, blocked access to sensitive data, and secretly sent Tony a report about Peter’s laboratory investigation.
• Peter examined the silver-gray fragment and recognized its resemblance to samples from Tony’s abandoned holographic experiments.
• Peter wondered whether the Prague Elementals had been caused by something other than a natural dimensional disaster, but dismissed his brief suspicion of Quentin.
• Peter told Quentin he had found something to discuss, while Quentin saw Peter’s trust as nearly sufficient to complete his infiltration of SSC.

After months of gaining Peter's trust, Quentin obtained all of his base permissions and prepared to stage a massive disaster across New York to make himself appear to be a hero. He and his team planned to restrict Peter, unaware that JARVIS had fed them fabricated intelligence, while Peter slept without knowing he had been betrayed.

• Peter gradually trusted Quentin and granted him every base permission he could exercise.
• JARVIS blocked classified information and planted false data among the files Quentin retrieved.
• Quentin told his team they had Peter's permissions and proposed staging a disaster across New York.
• Quentin planned to interfere with the base's security and take credit for resolving the crisis while his team restricted Peter.
• The team divided the work and began preparing the holographic equipment, unaware that their intelligence was fake.

Quentin staged a convincing holographic alien invasion of New York to make himself its sole savior, while Tony and Lynn let the deception proceed as a trial for Peter. As the Avengers fought the apparent invasion, Quentin’s team concealed every flaw, and Lynn concluded that no one could expose the act unless Quentin ended it himself.

• Quentin and his support team finalized a plan to recreate the Battle of New York with holographic drones and claim the role of humanity’s savior.
• JARVIS alerted Tony and Lynn, who returned to New York and decided to monitor the staged disaster while protecting civilians and letting Peter face the test.
• At seven in the morning, a holographic wormhole and alien assault devastated New York’s streets and buildings, convincing the city and SSC that a real invasion had begun.
• Coulson issued emergency calls and dispatched Quinjets as the SSC base entered combat readiness.
• Banner, Ivan, and Hawkeye arrived and rescued civilians and fought the apparent alien forces, while Quentin’s team altered the battlefield imagery to hide the drones.
• Tony observed that Quentin had fooled everyone, and Lynn explained that the deception would remain convincing unless Quentin chose to end it.

Peter and Quentin arrived as Ivan, Banner, and Hawkeye neared collapse against an apparently endless alien invasion in New York. Quentin secretly weakened the staged assault and won the city's gratitude, while Peter continued to trust the man who had orchestrated the deception.

• Ivan, Banner, and Hawkeye fought for nearly twenty minutes as the endless enemy waves exhausted them and threatened to break their defensive line.
• Tony worried the fighters could not hold on, but Lynn said reinforcements were about to arrive.
• Peter and Quentin reached the battlefield, where Peter joined the front line and Quentin took control of the airspace.
• Quentin secretly reduced the enemy assault through the holographic system, then cleared large numbers of enemies in a dramatic display.
• New Yorkers praised Quentin as their savior while overlooking the exhausted fighters who had held the line before he arrived.
• Peter fought beside Quentin without knowing that his trusted comrade had engineered the invasion, as Quentin's planned rise to fame continued.

As the battle in New York neared its end, Tony and Lynn arrived and Lynn restored the devastated city, then exposed Quentin as a holographic impostor. The battlefield was left stunned as two Quentins appeared, one confined and panicked and the other still posing as a hero.

• Peter, Ivan, Banner, and Hawkeye fought the remaining enemies while Quentin gained public praise for appearing to lead the defense.
• Tony and Lynn entered the battlefield through a portal, and Lynn reversed the damage across Manhattan with a glowing barrier.
• Peter rushed to defend Quentin, but Tony and Lynn used JARVIS and a restraint device to lock onto an apparently empty patch of air.
• Lynn challenged the hidden figure, and the holographic disguise faded to reveal a second Quentin inside the confinement field.
• Peter and the other fighters stared in shock as the confined Quentin and the composed Quentin hovered in separate places.

Lynn exposed Quentin Beck’s staged alien invasion by revealing the real Quentin and locating the team controlling the holographic spectacle. Tony told New York and the world the truth, leaving Quentin exposed and Peter devastated by the betrayal.

• Lynn used his perception to find the hidden warehouse controlling the drones and holograms across New York.
• Lynn restrained Quentin’s behind-the-scenes team and brought them, along with their equipment, to the battlefield.
• Tony announced that the invasion was fabricated and identified Quentin Beck as the mastermind who had exploited Peter’s access to stage a heroic rescue.
• New Yorkers, livestream viewers, and the Avengers reacted with shock and anger as Quentin and his team were detained.
• Peter, overwhelmed by guilt and heartbreak over trusting Quentin, stood alone on the rooftop as Tony declared that the reckoning would begin.

After Lynn delivered Quentin Beck and his crew to the United Nations, he went to comfort Peter, who was devastated by Quentin’s betrayal. Lynn explained that the experience was meant to help Peter grow, and Peter began to recover his resolve as Lynn left him to rejoin Tony.

• Lynn sent Quentin Beck and the captured members of his crew through a portal to the United Nations conference room in Geneva, where he left them with the representatives.
• Lynn returned to New York and asked Natasha to help Tony manage the cleanup and public response while he went to check on Peter.
• Peter blamed himself for trusting Quentin and breaking Tony’s trust, and he questioned whether he deserved to be a superhero.
• Lynn laughed, prompting Peter to accuse him and Tony of letting Quentin deceive him for their amusement.
• Lynn told Peter that Tony had allowed the deception to unfold so Peter could learn to recognize lies and avoid blind trust.
• Lynn gave Peter a handkerchief and left; Peter’s self-doubt eased, and he resolved to stand on his own.

After Quentin Beck’s deception, Peter learned to be more cautious from Tony and Wanda, while Quentin and his team faced trial at the United Nations. Quentin received a 120-year sentence, and Peter accepted the lesson and moved on.

• Tony confronted Peter about trusting Quentin and taught him to verify people before relying on them.
• Wanda and Quicksilver returned, and Wanda explained that Lynn had asked them to stay away so Peter could learn from the experience.
• Quentin received notice of his trial, then pleaded that he had wanted recognition when the court questioned him.
• Peter and Tony testified at Quentin’s trial, and the court convicted Quentin and his team, sentencing Quentin to 120 years without parole.
• Peter watched the trial coverage with Lynn, who reminded him to keep his moral principles, then invited him to dinner with Tony.

Peter sought Stephen Strange’s help to train his judgment with illusion trials, but his conflicting desire to become stronger and escape responsibility warped the spell and tore open a rift between universes. As villains from other realities arrived in New York, Lynn told Peter and Strange to deal with the crisis themselves while he prevented the universes from colliding.

• Peter left SSC headquarters alone and asked Stephen Strange to create illusion trials to help him overcome his naivety after Quentin Beck’s deception.
• Strange began casting the trials, but Peter’s buried desire to live a normal life distorted the spell and tore a fissure in the multiversal barrier.
• Strange struggled to contain the rupture as Lynn sensed the breach from the SSC base and warned Natasha that visitors from parallel universes were arriving.
• Norman Osborn’s Green Goblin, Electro, and Venom crossed into New York through the expanding rift.
• Lynn arrived at the Sanctum Sanctorum and told Peter and Strange to resolve the crisis while he kept the universes from colliding.

Strange gave Peter a compass to locate the multiversal arrivals, while Lynn found two Spider-Men from other universes and brought them to the Sanctum Sanctorum. The three Peters joined forces to help return the visitors before the expanding rift destroyed the universe, and they set out to track the villains.

• Strange created a compass that sensed otherworldly life-forms within fifty kilometers of New York, and Peter left with him to find the strongest signals.
• Lynn sensed the multiversal arrivals, then found two Spider-Men fighting in a Queens alley and explained that they had been pulled into this universe.
• Lynn brought the two Spider-Men to the Sanctum Sanctorum, where they met Peter and learned that the expanding rift threatened the universe.
• Strange said the three Peters had to cooperate to reverse the rift's energy flow and send the visitors home, while Lynn left to return to base.
• The three Peters compared equipment in Peter's lab, examined a map marked with red dots, and headed out together.

Little Peter, Tobey Peter, and Garfield Peter approached Sandman and offered to stabilize him and help cure his daughter, Emily, in exchange for his cooperation. Meanwhile, Lynn briefed Tony and Natasha on the multiversal crisis and ordered JARVIS to monitor the Spider-Men and Strange as the group prepared to handle the threat themselves.

• Little Peter identified Sandman as a manageable target, and Tobey Peter explained Flint Marko's motives and tragic circumstances.
• The three Spider-Men found Flint in the western outskirts and offered him a drug to stabilize his failing body and help for Emily.
• Flint agreed to cooperate after the Spider-Men promised to treat Emily and return him to his universe.
• Lynn told Tony and Natasha that Strange's spell had brought villains and two Spider-Men from other universes into New York.
• Lynn ordered JARVIS to continuously monitor the three Spider-Men and Strange and alert him and Tony if the crisis threatened to spiral out of control.