August 27th, 2024

Earth-2020

While the Avengers continue their fight against AIM, a teenage Ben 10 (Peter Parker) and Danielle “Dani” Yu (Liz Allan) apply for internships with the company only to learn that AIM is torturing Inhumans to create weapons with help from Yu’s family's company Yu Chemicals. Ben 10 and Yu ask the Avengers for help with Ben becoming Arachnid (Spider-Man) to help the heroes expose AIM, while Yu joins the resistance. It is revealed that Yu’s adoptive brother Chase (Mark Raxton) had been working undercover for his sister's sake to gather pieces of information for Arachnid and the Avengers about AIM’s dubious activities such as Spencer Smythe’s downfall on siding with AIM ever since the death of his son Allistair five years ago. With the evidence of AIM and Spencer's crimes exposed and under investigation, Chase uploads them to Daily Blabber and turns himself into the authorities for testimony against AIM. Shortly after gaining a new suit as a reserved Avengers member, Ben gets a phone call from Grandpa Max before he goes swinging across the city at night.

Tarantula, Finn and Connie discover an unidentifiable energy reading at one of AIM’s Utah Badlands facilities. There, the Avengers discover a creature who appears to be Mastermind, enclosed in a strange machine. They find out that due to their exploits against AIM, Penelope has become desperate to preserve it, and is now attempting to revive Mastermind as a last-ditch effort to support AIM. She attempts to fend off the Avengers once again, only to be defeated. But to their surprise, the real Mastermind appears before her and transports himself and Penelope away before the Avengers can do anything. As the heroes return to their base, they are still doubting Mastermind’s current situation while vowing to bring him and Penelope to justice.