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In issue #26, Miles faces a dramatic showdown with Adrian Toomes, the Vulture, who is desperate to pull his granddaughter Tiana (Starling) away from Miles. Still weakened by a recent vampiric infection (kept in check by a new Wakandan tech suit that regulates his bio-electric “venom” power), Miles struggles against Vulture’s onslaught. The fight spills into Misty Knight’s makeshift headquarters – she’s been mentoring Miles and had even enlisted Black Panther’s help to counter Miles’s condition. As the battle intensifies, Starling herself intervenes, making it clear she won’t return to her grandfather’s criminal “nest.” Together, Miles and Starling neutralize Vulture’s attack (with Starling literally knocking some sense into her grandfather), bringing the high-flying family confrontation to an end. This resolution solidifies Miles and Starling’s bond and gives Misty a front-row view of the chaos that surrounds her young protégé.
With Vulture dealt with, Miles turns to curing the vampiric curse left in his system by an ancient vampire (Varnae). Following Misty Knight’s guidance, Miles travels to Wakanda alongside Black Panther (T’Challa), who has obtained a cutting-edge vibranium-weave Spider-suit for Miles and is determined to help purge the infection. In issue #27–28, deep in Wakanda’s wilds, they perform a ritual under the panther goddess Bast’s watch. Miles undergoes mystical trials: first battling visions of his greatest foes, then facing a moral test. Bast offers an easy cure – if Miles transfers his vampirism to T’Challa – forcing Miles to choose between saving himself or sparing his ally. Miles, true to his heroism, refuses to sacrifice Black Panther. This selfless choice impresses Kwaku Anansi, the trickster spider-god, who unexpectedly intervenes. Anansi cleanses Miles of the vampirism outright, restoring his humanity. In doing so, Anansi essentially names Miles as his new champion (a role Miles never knew he was destined for). By the end of this spiritual journey, Miles is fully cured and empowered, though left with the startling revelation that he’s now bound to a god’s mantle. Meanwhile, back home, Miles’s clone-brother Shift (a benevolent, mute shapeshifter created from the earlier Clone Saga) has been impersonating Miles at Brooklyn Visions Academy to cover his absence. Shift’s awkward attempts at school – with best friend Ganke and others growing suspicious – provide a bit of relief and show how integrated Shift has become in Miles’s life.
Miles returns to New York in issue #29 just in time for “Pools of Blood,” an arc that collides him with Deadpool. No sooner is Miles home than he discovers Shift gravely injured – shot by none other than Wade Wilson, who mistook the clone for Miles. It turns out Agent Gao, a vengeful rogue operative from Miles’s past, hired Deadpool to target Spider-Man. Miles leaps into battle fueled by fresh anger, leading to a chaotic confrontation with Deadpool and Wade’s teenage daughter Ellie. The fight ranges from a sword duel (Miles manifests his bio-electric energy as a “venom saber” against Deadpool’s katanas) to a teleportation mishap that leaves Miles and Ellie temporarily stranded together. During this frantic scuffle, Ellie manages to calm things down, explaining her dad’s motives – Deadpool took the job to protect her future, not out of bloodlust. A begrudging understanding is reached, and Miles agrees to team up, realizing Agent Gao is the true threat. Using nanotech from his new suit, Miles repairs Ellie’s damaged teleport device, and the unlikely allies regroup with Shift and Deadpool. They arrive to find Agent Gao deploying her own enhanced enforcers – the armored villains Midas and Output – to finish the job. A quick team effort by Miles, Shift, and the Deadpools neutralizes these henchmen, but Gao has one more surprise: she appears wielding god-given power as the newly anointed Herald of Ares. Fueled by the war-god’s might and seeking to challenge Miles (now Anansi’s champion), Gao attacks in a fury. In the climactic struggle of issue #31, Miles’s high-tech suit proves invaluable – it absorbs and redirects Gao’s divine energy blasts – while Deadpool’s unpredictability gives the heroes an edge. Wade even manages to steal Gao’s glowing war-weapon amidst the fray. Overwhelmed and inexperienced with her new powers, Gao is forced to retreat. In the aftermath, the enemy-of-my-enemy alliance dissolves amicably: Deadpool and Ellie depart with mutual respect earned (and perhaps a few of Wade’s quips still ringing in Miles’s ears). Miles tends to Shift’s wounds and, recognizing his clone brother’s yearning for his own identity, grants him a personal name – “Jaime Morales” – officially welcoming him into the family. As Miles looks ahead, he carries some important changes: he’s free of the vampire curse and sporting a cutting-edge suit, but he’s now secretly the chosen of a trickster god. This new status already put him on a collision course with Ares’s schemes, hinting at a brewing “war of the gods” that will test Miles in the issues to come. Nonetheless, supported by friends and mentors like Starling, Misty Knight, Ganke, and his newly-christened “brother” Shift, Miles stands ready for whatever comes next as Brooklyn’s Spider-Man.
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