Synopsis / Summary / Plot
In Battleworld Manhattan the assembled Ultimate and Marvel heroes are at war, watched by Ultimate Punisher. But Ultimate Spider-Man has appeared to tell them to stop fighting - there's a bigger problem that needs their attention.
Some of Miles Morales' associates greet him and ask where he's been for a long while. Meanwhile Marvel Spider-Man vouches for him to the other side.
Miles struggles to find the words to explain what he knows. But the X-psychics read the truth in his mind, and Emma Frost shows everyone else what they've seen:- This isn't the real New York, and Dr Doom isn't god. He used cosmic power to create a patchwork Battleworld from the remains of destroyed alternate Earths, and he dumped these heroes here without memory of their real pasts deliberately in order that they would fight each other.
The crowd go through a speeded-up version of the 5 stages of grief until they're ready to listen to USpidey's plan. He explains that he got here with other survivors who are ready to move against Doom. But some of the heroes are still coming to grips with the idea of multiple alternate versions of themselves, and question whether they themselves are real.
Ultimate Hulk in particular doesn't want to accept any of it. But UPunisher reveals his presence to distract him with bullets. And Old Man Logan steps out of the shadows to threaten him with the claws. Logan confirms part of Spidey's story because he himself has been travelling across the domains. (All the X-Men are shocked to see him because Wolverine's dead in both realities.)
At this point a bunch of Thors arrive to deal with the problem. But Magik whisks the heroes away to safety. Leaving Punisher to blast the Thors with a bazooka, until he's killed by their return fire.
The heroes wonder if they can win against Doom. And whether such a battle will be worth the collateral damage to the civilians of Battleworld. But they decide that such tyranny must be opposed. However they will take some time to leave goodbye messages for loved ones. We hear the messages from Miles Morales, Peter Parker and Marvel Tony Stark to his father, Aunt May and Pepper Potts respectively.
As the messages play on we see the heroes join the battle for Doomstadt. We see Thors and Galactus at the scene. We don't actually see the fighting - just repeats of the 'stages of grief' pages full of the head-shot images. The heads gradually disappear, with Miles, Peter and Tony being the last to go.
After a double-page blank sheet Miles Morales awakens in his bedroom to find that his dead mother Rio is alive! 3 of his friends want him to go into the city with them. But he gets there via spider-web.