Chapter Summaries

Tony Stark refused the United Nations' proposed oversight of the Avengers while struggling to manage his many duties. When Scott Lang reported that Hank Pym had accidentally brought Kang the Conqueror out of the Quantum Realm and Vision had been captured, Tony ordered an emergency team assembly and began preparing to face Kang.

• Tony rejected the UN-SRA Act and told General Ross he would take the Avengers away from Earth rather than submit to oversight.
• Tony learned that most Avengers were occupied and ordered JARVIS to summon Peter Parker to Avengers Tower.
• Scott Lang told Tony that Vision had been captured by Kang the Conqueror, whom Hank Pym had brought out of the Quantum Realm while rescuing his wife.
• Tony ordered everyone to assemble, demanded that Hank Pym come to Avengers Tower, and asked JARVIS to gather all information on Kang and the Quantum Realm.
• Tony opened an encrypted file labeled K-N-G and told JARVIS to end Steve Rogers's afternoon tea so he could return to work.

Peter brought Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, Felicia Hardy, and Jessica Drew to Tony Stark’s meeting, where Jessica learned Peter was Spider-Man. Tony confronted Hank Pym and the Avengers over their failures to prevent Kang the Conqueror’s release, then discovered Vision’s last signal had come from New Mexico.

• Peter arrived with four girls, and Gwen Stacy, Felicia Hardy, and Mary Jane Watson revealed how they had learned he was Spider-Man.
• Jessica Drew learned Peter was Spider-Man and recognized him as the person who had saved her.
• Tony Stark ordered the girls to sit aside, then angrily confronted Hank Pym about the disasters tied to his actions.
• Tony rebuked Steve Rogers and the other Avengers for neglecting their duties and questioned Scott Lang about failing to report Hank and Kang.
• Tony asked JARVIS for Vision’s last location, and the signal coordinates showed New Mexico.

The Avengers gathered to assess Kang the Conqueror after Hank Pym’s Quantum Tunnel experiment opened. Valeria arrived with evidence that any Kang capable of multiverse travel could reverse time, leaving the limit of that ability unknown.

• Stephen Strange entered through a portal after Tony summoned him and agreed to join the meeting when Tony offered to pay him double.
• Tony confronted Hank Pym about the Quantum Tunnel’s failure, then reviewed Kang’s armor and its possible time-travel and reset abilities.
• Pietro suggested getting Thor, but Tony said Thor and Wanda were unreachable in a Zombie Universe.
• Steve asked Banner and Jane whether they could defeat Kang immediately, and Banner said they needed to find and destroy the source of Kang’s time reversal.
• Valeria arrived and told Banner that any Kang able to travel through the multiverse could reverse time, though the number of uses remained unknown.

Valeria explained how to build devices that could disable Kang's time-reversal power and freeze him, so Tony assembled a team to keep Kang under pressure while they were being made. Back at the conference hall, the remaining heroes began betting on which of Peter Parker's four girlfriends he would choose, and Felicia forced him to face the question.

• Valeria revealed that a time-core blocker and an area-of-effect time-freezing device could counter Kang, but both would take three days to build and calibrate.
• Tony chose Steve, Banner, Jane, Pietro, Strange, Natasha, and Clint to pursue Kang, keeping him too busy to plan until the devices were ready.
• Tony left Peter Parker behind with Mary Jane, Gwen Stacy, Felicia, and Jessica, while T'Challa and Rhodey were told to keep an eye on him.
• Rhodey, Sam, Scott, and T'Challa each bet five hundred dollars on which girl Peter would choose.
• Gwen asked Peter who he wanted to choose, and Felicia interrupted to suggest that Spider-Man wanted to choose all of them.

Tony and the Avengers battled Kang the Conqueror in an underground New Mexico base, freeing Vision and forcing Kang to destroy the facility in an attempted escape. After Vision detected Kang trying to leave the universe, Tony ordered Strange to open a portal and pursue him.

• Tony led the Avengers in attacking Kang, whose force field, telekinesis, and time manipulation let him evade their strikes.
• Pietro broke through Kang’s defenses and freed Vision by destroying a node on the spatial device.
• Vision joined the fight and struck Kang, who began jumping through time to launch attacks while Valeria worked on a project from Knowhere.
• The Avengers coordinated their attacks and kept Kang occupied, but he gathered energy into a black sphere and threatened to destroy everyone with him.
• Strange opened portals to evacuate the team just before Kang’s explosion destroyed the underground base.
• Vision detected Kang trying to escape the universe, and Tony ordered Strange to open a portal so they could pursue him.

Kang the Conqueror fled into the Amazon after his battle with the Avengers, but Tony Stark and Stephen Strange trapped him in the Mirror Dimension. The Avengers coordinated attacks and repeatedly countered Kang’s time rewinds until they destroyed his armor and left him at Tony’s mercy.

• Kang escaped into the Amazon, killed several Indigenous people, and decided to hide and repair his damaged time core rather than risk returning to the Council of Kangs.
• Tony Stark and Stephen Strange confronted Kang in the Mirror Dimension, and Kang unleashed his force field, telekinesis, and energy beams against them.
• Banner, Jane, Vision, Pietro, Tony, Strange, Clint, Natasha, and Steve worked together to break Kang’s shield and disable his armor systems.
• Kang repeatedly rewound time to escape the Avengers’ attacks, but Tony anticipated his return points and the team continued their coordinated assault.
• Kang broke free of the Crimson Chains and threatened to detonate his remaining energy, but Tony, Steve, Jane, and Banner struck him down.
• Tony stood over the wrecked Kang with an energy cannon aimed at his forehead and asked for his last words.

After Kang escaped to another universe by detonating his armor, Tony and the injured Avengers failed to track him. Valeria decided the threat was too great to ignore and secretly contacted her family, but Susan answered first.

• Kang overloaded his armor and unleashed a blast that shattered the Mirror Dimension and injured Tony, Strange, Steve, Clint, Natasha, Pietro, Banner, and Jane.
• Vision determined that Kang had escaped through a random inter-universal teleport and could not be tracked.
• Tony asked Valeria for help, but she explained that only Franklin could locate Kang and that her brother was unreachable.
• Valeria hesitated to contact Reed because she feared being taken back home, then decided Kang's threat outweighed her desire to stay on Knowhere.
• Valeria used her terminal to break through the dimensional barrier, and Susan answered the call in distress.

Valeria reunited with her parents and showed them the dangerous artifacts and captive demon she had been studying in Knowhere. After she revealed that Kang had escaped into another universe, Doctor Doom arrived and declared he would help his goddaughter.

• Valeria opened a portal and brought Susan, Reed, Johnny, and Ben into her laboratory in Knowhere.
• Reed examined the Infinity Stones, All-Black the Necrosword, and Mephisto, while Valeria explained Thor had captured the demon for her research.
• Valeria told her family that Kang had detonated his armor and escaped through a cross-universe teleportation that the Avengers could not track.
• Reed warned that Kang could return with an army of variants and proposed building a multiversal resonator to find him.
• Doctor Doom emerged through a green rift and announced that he would take action because his goddaughter was in trouble.

Thor and Wanda’s quiet walk in New York was interrupted when a battered Kang appeared, and Thor subdued him and sent him through a portal to Valeria’s laboratory on Knowhere. Valeria angrily denied having a relationship with Thor, while Reed restrained Kang so the group could deal with him.

• Thor and Wanda walked through New York until Kang crashed into the street, and Thor recognized him as the Conqueror.
• Kang tried to flee, but Thor used the Law of Space to immobilize him and the Law of Mind to learn that Hank Pym had destroyed the Quantum Realm’s energy nodes.
• Thor opened a portal to Valeria’s laboratory on Knowhere, threw Kang at Doom’s feet, mocked Valeria, and returned to Wanda.
• Doom identified Thor’s portal as a use of the pure Law of Space, while Reed marveled at Thor’s ability to cross universes without instruments.
• Valeria angrily denied Susan’s suggestion that she had a relationship with Thor and called Kang her research subject.
• Reed restrained Kang with an energy field, and Kang woke inside it screaming in pain.

Tony Stark, Strange, and Banner arrived in Reed’s laboratory and clashed with Reed and Susan over whether to kill Kang or study his time-jumping device. The confrontation moved into the Mirror Dimension, where Banner and Tony demonstrated their strength and magic, and Tony seized Kang while Susan’s attack strained their defenses.

• Tony, Strange, and Banner emerged through a portal, and Tony demanded that Reed hand over the captured Kang so he could kill him.
• Reed refused, arguing that the team needed to study Kang’s temporal data, while Valeria warned Johnny that this universe’s Avengers were unusually powerful.
• Tony and Strange opened the Mirror Dimension, pulling everyone into it, and Johnny and Ben attacked them.
• Banner punched Ben through multiple spatial barriers, while Tony restrained Reed with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak.
• Susan unleashed a powerful force-field shock wave, and Tony and Strange blocked it with a Shield of the Seraphim.
• Tony pulled Kang and his silver disc to his feet, pinned Kang under his boot, and asked Valeria why she had not mentioned her mother was so powerful.

Valeria watched as a fight between the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, Tony, and Doom destroyed the Mirror Dimension and her laboratory. Emma Frost arrived with her allies and confronted Valeria over the destruction in Frost City.

• Valeria told Doom that Emma Frost and Thor would object to the fight, but Doom joined the battle against Tony anyway.
• Strange sent Johnny through a portal, while Susan, Reed, and Strange fought; Doom and Tony clashed with magic and technology as Valeria watched behind a shield.
• Susan unleashed a force-field shockwave that shattered the Mirror Dimension and collapsed the laboratory, destroying Valeria’s research equipment and data.
• Banner, Tony, Strange, Doom, Reed, and Susan emerged from the rubble largely unharmed, while Valeria stared at the wreckage of her work.
• Betsy, Emma Frost, Magneto, Wolverine, and Chibi Hulk arrived, and Emma addressed Valeria about demolishing things in Frost City.

After Susan’s uncontrolled force-field blast destroyed Valeria’s research and the laboratory, Emma Frost demanded compensation from Tony, who agreed to pay several dozen tons of Vibranium. As Magneto prepared to restrain the survivors, Thor arrived and found the group amid the wreckage.

• Susan’s force-field shock wave destroyed Valeria’s research, leaving Valeria devastated and Susan unable to comfort her.
• Strange returned Johnny and Ben to the wreckage, where Emma Frost confronted Tony and demanded compensation for Knowhere’s destruction.
• Tony agreed to pay Emma Frost several dozen tons of Vibranium after weighing the cost of refusing.
• Emma Frost left Magneto to keep the group from causing more damage, and he raised the wreckage into spears to threaten them.
• Thor arrived with Wanda, his Multiverse Level aura dropped Magneto’s weapons and overwhelmed the others, and he asked why everyone looked so miserable.

After Tony defeated Kang the Conqueror, Reed and Thor explained that killing him could trigger multiversal catastrophe, and Thor demonstrated why erasing Kang entirely was too dangerous. Tony and Reed began searching for a way to contain Kang, while Valeria asked Thor to restore the destroyed data she had collected from 3,600 parallel universes.

• Tony explained that he had fought Kang the Conqueror after Valeria's parents objected to him killing Kang, and Thor saw the destruction the battle had caused.
• Reed warned that killing Kang would cause the timeline to generate more variants, while Thor explained that Kang was an inevitable paradox tied to humanity's technological future.
• Thor demonstrated that he could erase the concept of Kang but warned that doing so would collapse timelines and destroy countless lives.
• Tony asked JARVIS to model the consequences, and Reed joined him to search for a way to restrain Kang without destabilizing the multiverse.
• Valeria approached Thor with her ruined hard drive and asked him to restore the data she had collected from 3,600 parallel universes.

Thor reversed time to restore Valeria’s ruined laboratory and recover her research data, then refused to let her experiment with the Black Vortex. After hearing where Gladiator and Beta Ray Bill had gone, Thor realized he had forgotten to bring back America Chavez.

• Thor used the Law of Time to restore the laboratory and recover Valeria’s data from 3,600 parallel universes.
• Valeria asked Thor about his cosmic artifact, and he identified it as the Black Vortex; Reed warned that it could corrupt its user and destroy Knowhere.
• Reed and Doom argued over whether Valeria should be allowed to study the Black Vortex, while Thor shut down her request.
• Valeria reported that Gladiator had joined Frost City’s guards, Beta Ray Bill was fighting in the underground arena, and Black Swan had disappeared.
• Thor recognized Black Swan’s image and suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to bring back America Chavez.

Thor told Tony, Reed, and the others about a girl who could open portals between universes through an innate power, prompting Reed and Valeria to debate the dangers and research potential. Thor then found the girl in a ruined world, where she reminded him of their deal.

• Thor explained that a rare girl could open portals between universes without technology or magic, and Reed and Valeria reacted with alarm and excitement.
• Susan warned Valeria not to treat the girl as a research subject, while Doom offered to help study her and Reed warned that her power could destabilize spacetime.
• Tony mocked Strange about being replaced, and Strange reminded him to repay his debt.
• Wanda opened a portal with Chaos Magic and left to see Pietro.
• Thor searched Knowhere for Black Swan, found no trace of her, and opened a portal to a ruined world.
• Thor arrived before a girl in a denim jacket, and she reminded him that they had made a deal.

Thor found America’s mothers in another universe and sent her to them, then decided to take Tony, Strange, and Banner to experience being Spider-Man in the universe where Peter Parker had just died. He transformed the three into Spider-themed heroes and led them through a portal to New York.

• Thor traced America’s soul through the multiverse and found her mothers working at a burger place in another universe.
• Thor discovered that Peter Parker had died in Earth-1610B and that Miles Morales and several other Spider-Men were there.
• Tony, Strange, and Banner agreed to try being Spider-Man, while Reed, Doom, Valeria, and Susan declined.
• Thor used the Law of Reality to turn Tony’s armor into an Iron Spider suit, dress Strange in a magical Spider-Man suit, and outfit Hulk as Spider-Hulk.
• America thanked Thor and rushed through the portal to find her mothers.
• Thor opened a portal to New York and led Tony, Strange, and Banner through to meet the multiverse’s Spider-Men.

As the Spider-Men prepared to fight Kingpin and his allies before their bodies collapsed, four powerful newcomers dressed as Spider-Man arrived at Aunt May’s yard. Peter B. Parker recognized them as Thor, Stark, Strange, and Hulk, and relaxed because he believed they could defeat even Thanos.

• Peni Parker warned that the Spider-Men had less than five days before dimensional rejection destroyed their bodies, and said they needed to activate Kingpin’s collider.
• Spider-Man Noir said Miles Morales was too inexperienced to fight, while Spider-Ham volunteered to take on two villains and Gwen proposed training Miles to destroy the collider.
• Aunt May announced that four more Spider-Men had arrived, and the team saw Thor, Stark, Strange, and Hulk on the surveillance feeds.
• Peter B. Parker recognized the newcomers, sat down with apple pie, and assured the others that they could handle any threat, even Thanos.

Peter B. Parker explained how powerful the Avengers were and reassured the others that Spider-Man could defeat their local villains if they stopped holding back. The elevator opened, revealing Aunt May and four men behind her.

• Peter B. Parker told Miles, Gwen, Peni, and Spider-Man Noir about Thanos and the strength of the Avengers.
• Peter identified Thor, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and Hulk on the surveillance screen and described their abilities.
• Peter said Spider-Man and the others could overpower Kingpin, Doctor Octopus, and Green Goblin, but held back to avoid killing people.
• The elevator doors opened, and Aunt May appeared with an empty tray and four men behind her.

Tony Stark and his companions joined Peter B. Parker and the other Spider-people in the underground base, then opened a portal to Kingpin’s collider facility. The group arrived amid armed guards and alarms, ready to attack.

• Tony Stark introduced himself as Iron Spider and gave the Spider-people insulting assessments before Peter B. Parker invited him to help stop Kingpin.
• Miles explained who Kingpin was, but Tony dismissed him as an insignificant crime boss.
• Strange opened a portal to Kingpin’s underground collider base, and Thor gave Aunt May a white chrysanthemum to pass to Peter.
• Peter B. Parker, the Spider-people, and the Avengers went through the portal to the collider facility.
• Armed men aimed their weapons at the group as Tony hovered and charged his arc pulse cannon.

Thor, Tony, Banner, and Strange defeated Kingpin and his villains while the Spider-Men watched. The Spider-Men returned to their universes, but Thor killed Kingpin before leaving Miles alone to deal with the wreckage and surviving criminals.

• Tony, Strange, and Thor subdued the guards while Miles and Peter B. Parker watched from cover.
• Kingpin led Green Goblin, Lady Doctor Octopus, Scorpion, Prowler, and Tombstone into the fight; Thor blasted Kingpin, and Banner killed Green Goblin and incapacitated Tombstone, Prowler, and Scorpion.
• Tony killed Lady Doctor Octopus, and Banner knocked Kingpin unconscious as the Spider-Men recoiled from the bloody fight.
• Thor asked Valeria to send the Spider-Men home, and Noir, Peni, Gwen, and Peter B. Parker each went through a portal.
• After Miles asked what would stop Kingpin from causing more trouble, Thor killed him with Mjolnir and left with Tony, Banner, and Strange.
• Miles remained alone in the ruined base with Kingpin's corpse and three unconscious villains, wondering how he would clean up the mess.