Chapter Summaries

Little Peter stabilized Sandman and brought him to SSC headquarters before confessing to Tony that his attempt to change Strange’s spell had caused the crisis. Reassured and given unrestricted access to SSC’s resources, he reunited with Tobey’s Peter and Andrew’s Peter, and the three set out to confront Electro and the other threats in New York.

• Tobey’s Peter, Andrew’s Peter, and Little Peter took Flint Marko to SSC headquarters, where the stabilizer helped keep him stable and Tobey’s Peter agreed to watch over him.
• Little Peter admitted to Tony that his self-doubt and desire to grow up had interfered with Strange’s spell and caused the crisis.
• Tony comforted Little Peter and granted him unrestricted access to Stark Industries, SSC, and its resources so he could resolve the problems.
• Little Peter joined Tobey’s Peter and Andrew’s Peter for a meal, and the three agreed to work together and focus on solving the crisis rather than assigning blame.
• The three Spider-Men reviewed JARVIS’s data, identified Electro near a power station and Green Goblin as major threats, and set out to confront the dangers across New York.

The three Spider-Men found Adrian Toomes, stranded in their universe with his mechanical wings, and offered to help him return home if he cooperated. He agreed to go with them to SSC headquarters.

• Young Peter used JARVIS and the magic compass to locate an unfamiliar signal circling above New York.
• The three Spider-Men approached Vulture, who readied his wing blades before recognizing their matching suits.
• Young Peter told Adrian Toomes that he was in another universe and promised to help send him home.
• Vulture asked whether he could return to his world, then agreed to cooperate after the Spider-Men assured him they would help.
• Vulture flew with the three Spider-Men toward SSC headquarters.

Little Peter, Tobey, and Garfield confronted Doctor Octopus at an abandoned Hudson River dock, where Tobey briefly reached Otto’s true self before the mechanical arms’ AI took control again. After JARVIS identified a way to suppress the AI, Little Peter began sacrificing his nanosuit armor to hack into the arms while the others held Doctor Octopus off.

• Little Peter identified a slowly moving signal near the Hudson River, and Tobey recognized it as Doctor Otto Octavius.
• Tobey approached Doctor Octopus, who recognized Peter and briefly spoke with him as Otto before the mechanical arms’ AI seized control again.
• Tobey tried to awaken Otto by reminding him of his research and Rosalie, while Otto’s consciousness repeatedly fought against the arms’ AI.
• Doctor Octopus fully returned to the AI’s control, and Little Peter, Garfield, and Tobey fought him without trying to injure Otto.
• JARVIS warned Little Peter that an anomalous energy signal was heading toward a crowded area and found a way to briefly suppress the mechanical arms’ AI through a physical connection.
• Little Peter began converting the armor on his left hand into an intrusion probe and told Tobey and Garfield to hold Doctor Octopus down.

Little Peter and Tobey helped Doctor Octopus regain control of his mechanical arms, then split up to face new threats. Little Peter and Garfield defeated Electro in Times Square, but Green Goblin and Venom attacked SSC headquarters, where Tobey and Otto were defending it.

• Little Peter used his nanotech armor while Tobey and Garfield restrained Doctor Octopus, allowing Otto to overcome the arms’ AI and regain control.
• JARVIS identified Electro in Times Square and Green Goblin and Venom approaching SSC headquarters, so Little Peter sent Tobey and Otto to defend the headquarters while he and Garfield went after Electro.
• Little Peter and Garfield found Electro draining power from Times Square and planned to overload him at a nearby substation.
• Garfield lured Electro onto the substation’s power line, and Little Peter triggered an overload that returned Electro to solid form and left him unconscious.
• Little Peter bound Electro, then learned that Green Goblin and Venom had reached SSC headquarters and were pressing Tobey and Otto’s defenses, so he and Garfield hurried back with Electro.

The three Spider-Men and their allies defeated and captured the displaced villains attacking SSC headquarters. After Strange prepared to return them to their original universes, Little Peter embraced his responsibilities as Spider-Man without giving up his life as Peter Parker.

• The Green Goblin and Venom attacked SSC headquarters, where Sandman, Doctor Octopus, Tobey, and Vulture fought to stop them.
• Little Peter and Garfield arrived and helped bring down the Green Goblin’s glider, while SSC’s sonic defense separated Venom from Eddie Brock and the Spider-Men restrained them both.
• Otto, Sandman, Vulture, and the three Spider-Men worked together to capture the Green Goblin and secure the remaining villains.
• The three Spider-Men reflected on their teamwork as Strange arrived and said he would prepare a ritual to return the six displaced villains to their universes.
• Little Peter realized he did not have to choose between being Spider-Man and being Peter Parker.

Norman Osborn secretly prepared an escape attempt while Little Peter proposed resolving the villains’ underlying problems before returning them to their universes. When the group confronted Norman about a device to suppress the Green Goblin personality, Norman revealed his deception and triggered an explosion.

• Norman Osborn gathered chemicals in his cell and used a hidden transmitter to recruit Electro and Venom for an escape.
• Little Peter proposed stabilizing Sandman, addressing the other villains’ problems, and creating a device to suppress Green Goblin’s personality.
• Tobey warned that Norman was likely plotting and urged the group to deal with him before sending him home.
• Little Peter and the others went to Norman’s cell and offered to make a suppression device, but Norman denied needing help.
• Tobey confronted Norman about his past, and Norman admitted he had been pretending before scattering powder and setting off an explosion.

Norman escaped containment after Electro and Eddie refused Green Goblin’s offer to help him. The Spider-Men and the other villains stopped his enhanced Green Goblin form, and Little Peter began assigning work to address the group’s remaining risks before their return.

• Max refused to follow Norman’s signal, and Eddie stopped Venom from reaching through a crack in the wall because he distrusted Green Goblin.
• Norman swallowed his enhanced Green Goblin Formula, broke out of the ventilation duct, and attacked the agents in the SSC corridor.
• Little Peter, Tobey, Garfield, Otto, Sandman, and Vulture fought Norman, while Little Peter used a nanoneedle to suppress the formula and restore Norman’s control.
• In the medical room, Otto said Norman might have been fighting the Green Goblin personality or waiting for the others to trust him, and agreed to develop a suppression device within three days.
• Little Peter assigned Otto to work on suppression devices, Garfield to help Electro, Tobey to help Sandman, and himself to repair Vulture’s wings before he spoke with Eddie about Venom.

Over several days, Little Peter and the others prepared the six villains to return by treating their conditions, improving their equipment, and addressing the problems behind their powers. Eddie agreed to try a communication device for himself and Venom, while the others received solutions that would need follow-up after they returned to their universe.

• Otto Octavius created a brainwave-monitoring patch to suppress Norman's Green Goblin personality when it approached a dangerous threshold, and he installed an improved inhibitor chip for himself.
• Garfield completed a chest-mounted stabilizer that let Max Dillon maintain a solid form and control his electrical discharges.
• Tobey prepared a slow-release stabilizer for Flint Marko and gave him a treatment plan and medicine for Emily's blood disease.
• Little Peter repaired Adrian Toomes's mechanical wings with an attack-mode safety lock, and Vulture accepted the safeguard.
• Little Peter proposed a two-way emotional communication interface for Eddie and Venom, and Eddie agreed to try it.

The six visitors returned to their own universes, and the three Spider-Men reflected on their losses and the lessons they had learned together before Tobey and Garfield went home. Back in his ordinary life, Peter met MJ for a quiet afternoon and let her help him finish his MIT application.

• Strange sent Sandman, Vulture, Max, Otto, Eddie, and Norman back to their universes after they said goodbye to the Spider-Men.
• Tobey, Garfield, and Little Peter talked about Quentin Beck's deception, their past losses, and how they had chosen to keep helping others.
• Lynn reviewed Peter's recent choices with Natasha and judged that he had handled himself well despite still needing to grow.
• Strange opened a portal, and Tobey and Garfield returned to their universes after promising to visit Little Peter.
• Peter met MJ at a café, accepted her invitation to an art exhibition, and apologized for being distracted.
• MJ realized Peter had forgotten his MIT application deadline and took him home to help him complete the form.

Lynn discovered that Strange's spell had left cracks in the cosmic barrier, causing random miniature wormholes that could let people or objects cross between universes. He arranged for Strange and SSC to monitor the damage, then persuaded Little Peter to join the team on a weekend trip so he could stop blaming himself and rest.

• Lynn sensed cracks across the cosmic barrier and warned Strange that miniature wormholes would appear unpredictably for months or years.
• Strange accepted responsibility for the damage, and Lynn told him to set up a warning system while SSC helped monitor the barrier.
• Strange began searching for ancient texts to establish a dimensional fluctuation warning array.
• Lynn found Little Peter training intensely and reassured him that the spell's consequences were not entirely his fault.
• Lynn told Little Peter he was joining Tony's team-building trip, and Little Peter reluctantly agreed.
• Tony, Pepper, Natasha, Banner, Hawkeye, Wanda, Quicksilver, Lynn, and Little Peter left the SSC base for the lake district.

The Avengers and Little Peter spent a relaxing weekend at Tony’s lakeside vacation house, where Tony encouraged Peter to ease his burden and rely on his family. After returning to the SSC base, Peter investigated the first detected micro-wormhole in Queens and brought the metal fragment that had fallen through to Strange.

• Tony took Pepper, Little Peter, and the others to his lakeside vacation house, where they shared a barbecue and watched fireworks.
• Tony spoke privately with Little Peter, praised his growth, and reminded him that he could lean on his family for help.
• The group spent a leisurely morning by the lake before packing up and returning to the SSC base on Sunday.
• Strange told Little Peter that the dimensional monitoring array had detected a brief micro-wormhole in a Queens alley and that an object had fallen through.
• Little Peter found a scorched trace and recovered a metal fragment from the alley, then brought it to Strange for examination.

As the Infinity Stones recovered, Lynn discovered the Celestial embryo beneath Earth and learned it could destroy the planet when it matured in about fifty years. He decided to seek information from the Eternals and located all ten remaining on Earth, starting with the one in London.

• Lynn noticed the Infinity Stones had nearly recovered, and Natasha sensed that his bearing had changed.
• Lynn detected a vast life-form in Earth's core and recognized it as the Celestial embryo that would trigger the Emergence and destroy Earth.
• Lynn traveled through the Pacific seafloor and mantle to examine the embryo, estimating that it would mature in roughly fifty to sixty years.
• Lynn decided he needed to learn more from the Eternals rather than kill the embryo, whose death could provoke the Celestials.
• Lynn searched the globe, found ten Eternals, and chose to visit the one in London first.

Lynn found Sersi and asked for her help stopping the Emergence, which would destroy Earth in fifty years. After Sersi arranged a meeting with Ajak and several Eternals, Lynn arrived at Ajak’s South Dakota farm to discuss his plan.

• Lynn revealed to Sersi that he knew she was an Eternal and had seen the Celestial embryo, then explained that he wanted to stop the Emergence.
• Sersi agreed to contact Ajak and the other Eternals, and Lynn returned to the SSC base to tell Natasha that visitors might arrive.
• Sersi called Lynn the next evening and said Ajak and some of the Eternals had agreed to meet him, though Ikaris and Kingo would not attend.
• Ajak, Sersi, Gilgamesh, Thena, and Druig gathered at Ajak’s South Dakota farm and discussed Lynn before he arrived through a portal.
• Lynn introduced himself to Ajak as the man who had gone underground and seen the embryo.

Lynn proposed moving the Celestial embryo from Earth to a barren planet, then revealed his powers and explained how he could overcome the obstacles the Eternals raised. Ajak judged the plan theoretically feasible but warned that the embryo might resist, while Phastos questioned whether the portal could remain stable during the transfer.

• Ajak gathered the Eternals with Lynn, and Lynn proposed removing the embryo from Earth's core and transplanting it to another planet.
• Ajak listed four dangers: the embryo needed intelligent life's mental energy, was fused with Earth's core, was monitored by the Celestials, and was massive enough to disrupt Earth's ecosystems.
• Lynn revealed all six Infinity Stones, his magic and Odin's divine power, and his ability to analyze and alter matter's underlying information.
• Lynn explained how he would supply the embryo's energy, separate it from Earth's core, shield it from Arishem, and teleport it without causing gravitational disturbances.
• Ajak warned that the embryo might resist, and Lynn said he could communicate with it using the Soul Stone or suppress it with the Power and Mind Stones.
• Phastos questioned the portal's stability, and Lynn assured him that the Power Stone and his own ability would provide three layers of protection.

Lynn convinced the Eternals he could oppose the Celestials by demonstrating his ability to stop time, then searched the universe and found a suitable barren planet for the embryo transplant. Three days later, Ajak agreed to join the plan, while Ikaris and Kingo refused to participate.

• Lynn stopped time in the cottage to prove his power, persuading Druig and the other Eternals that he could stand against the Celestials.
• Thena, Gilgamesh, Druig, Phastos, and Sersi agreed to help Lynn, while Ajak asked for three days to decide.
• Lynn searched the universe and found a lifeless rocky planet that met the transplant requirements, then prepared detailed data and contingency plans.
• Natasha waited for Lynn at the SSC base and urged him to stay safe as he prepared for the transplant.
• Lynn returned to Ajak's farm, where Ajak said Ikaris and Kingo had refused to join the plan.
• Ajak agreed to the plan after telling Lynn she had concealed the embryo's abnormalities from Arishem, and Lynn offered to mask its energy fluctuations with the Mind Stone.

Lynn and the Eternals carried out the embryo transplant, moving it from Earth’s core to a barren planet while restoring Earth’s core without damage. The operation succeeded, but Lynn sensed that Arishem had noticed and prepared to face her.

• Lynn and the Eternals finalized the transplant plan and scheduled the operation for five days later, assigning Phastos, Ajak, and the others their tasks.
• At the farm in South Dakota, Lynn established three gravitational buffer layers around Earth before descending into the core to begin the transplant.
• Lynn marked and separated the embryo from Earth’s core, then calmed its awakening consciousness through the Soul Stone when it began to resist.
• Lynn opened a portal and moved the embryo to the barren planet, while the Reality Stone restored Earth’s core and the monitoring stations confirmed there was no damage.
• Lynn returned to the farm and told the Eternals the embryo was stable, then sensed Arishem’s distant gaze and accepted that she might come after him.

Lynn confronted Arishem after moving the Celestial embryo from Earth to a barren planet, arguing that the Emergence could still happen without destroying Earth's inhabitants. Arishem listened in silence, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Sersi watched the Eternals at the South Dakota farm while Ajak confirmed the embryo was stable on its new planet.
• Lynn told Natasha that Arishem would arrive soon, and JARVIS detected the Celestial approaching Earth twelve minutes later.
• Arishem discovered the embryo was missing and descended over North America, while Lynn warned Tony Stark to prevent governments from attacking.
• Arishem confronted Ajak at the farm, and Lynn claimed responsibility for moving the embryo.
• Lynn explained that the embryo would still mature and produce a Celestial, then challenged Arishem's claim that sacrificing Earth's inhabitants was justified by possible future life.

Lynn persuaded Arishem to accept the transplanted embryo and free the Eternals, but then realized the precedent could inspire others to target Celestial embryos. He decided to stage a real battle with Arishem and suffer injuries to deter imitators.

• Ikaris arrived and asked Arishem to punish the Eternals, but Arishem verified that the embryo was growing normally on its new planet.
• Arishem allowed the transplant to stand on the conditions that Lynn monitor the embryo and never interfere with other Celestial embryos.
• Lynn took responsibility for the operation, and Arishem spared the Eternals but ended their mission and released them from her command.
• Ikaris flew away in despair as the freed Eternals celebrated, and Arishem departed after warning Lynn to keep his promise.
• Lynn told Natasha that he planned to fight Arishem for real and be badly wounded to discourage others from imitating the transplant.
• Lynn opened a portal and left to find Arishem.

Lynn fought Arishem to restore the Celestials’ authority, controlling the battle before deliberately taking a devastating blow and retreating. The story ended with word of his apparent defeat spreading through the universe while Natasha treated his injuries at the SSC base.

• Lynn returned to Arishem and proposed a staged battle in which he would retreat with serious injuries to deter future challenges to the Celestials.
• Lynn overwhelmed Arishem with the Infinity Stones, the Odinforce, and his abilities, neutralizing her attacks and damaging her armor.
• Lynn deliberately left an opening, allowing Arishem to strike him with her full strength before he fled through a spatial rift.
• An alien merchant witnessed Lynn’s apparent escape, and rumors of his defeat spread, discouraging forces that had considered provoking the Celestials.
• Lynn returned to the SSC base, where Natasha found him badly injured and treated him as his body began to heal.

After Lynn recovered from Arishem’s punch, the Eternals visited SSC to discuss their lives now that their mission had ended. They chose separate paths, with Phastos staying at the base to work with Tony, while the others set off on their own plans.

• Natasha cared for the injured Lynn, and Tony checked on him before Little Peter told him the Eternals had arrived.
• Lynn met Ajak, Sersi, Thena, Gilgamesh, and Phastos, who explained that Arishem had freed them from their mission and asked what to do next.
• Sersi chose to return to her museum work, Thena and Gilgamesh planned to travel, Ajak decided to explore South America, and Druig went to Las Vegas to gamble.
• Phastos asked to stay at SSC, impressed Tony with his ideas for improving nano armor, and joined the research and development department.
• The Eternals toured the base, spending the afternoon with its staff before saying goodbye; Phastos stayed while the others departed for their plans.