The Armageddon ordeal grossly reduced the effective force of the Legion from 6000 souls to a mere dozen: however, since the souls left are the strongest and most tempered to battle, the strike impact of the force didn't change so much.
It should have been included in the book, as the story makes precious little sense without it. Mammon is accompanied by Moranna and Moranna's foster parents Lucian and Daciana, leaders of the original vampires. He survives an assault by Angela, an angel whose mission in Heaven is to hunt Hellspawns for sport and claims the Medieval Spawn as one of her trophies.
Angela was later the subject of a legal battle between McFarlane and Gaiman over the rights to the character, which Gaiman won. His shroud, spikes, chains, and skulls are all part of an organism bonded to his central nervous system that will protect Spawn even if he is unconscious. Spawn, now given the powers of a god and the protection of the Mother, gains the power to recreate Earth, restoring everyone to life, but leaving humanity every memory of the Rapture.
Mambo Suzanne, however, uses the conflict as a distraction to shatter the glass containing Zera's head and throw the head to streets below. Spawn's discarded heart, torn from his chest in an earlier battle with the Disciple, Heaven's Warrior, transforms into a young boy named Chris. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.
Long story short, she’s pure badass. She is seen again now as a rotting decapitated head, immersed in preservative liquids within a glass container. The Legion is shown sharing a symbiotic relation with Al Simmons, who's left in pain whenever one of the Legionnaires is slayed. Fearing that Spawn will unbalance Armageddon, God does the same. As Spawn races to the place where Armageddon will be fought, he confronts Zera, the Queen of the Seraphim. When he later came to her aid during her trial in Heaven- ironically, he was there to testify that she had permission to … Wanda asks if Spawn could move on if she forgave him for the miscarriage of their child to which Spawn responds to do it. As the psychic projection melts away, Spawn is left kneeling, accepting the belief that whatever he tries to do goes wrong, that he is no longer needed by the world. Returned to Limbo, Cyan pressures Spawn into calling down the Legion, or at least the still living souls of it, numbering a mere dozen.
Jim's eyes turn a familiar green and the kidnapper begins to scream in fear and pain. After the Mother granted him her powers, Spawn's own power became limitless. Spawn, remembering what the Mother said about trusting Cyan, does not deal the final blow to Judas. For the first time in the story she is afraid of Spawn, fearing his return will be to murder someone close to her.
This issue leads to the recovery of Nyx and Spawn's friendship as well as Nyx's recovery of her powers.
She speaks with Judas, revealing that when she took the form of Jesus, Judas was his most beloved disciple, the only one who had the courage to betray him. In retaliation, Morana savagely attacks her own servants, and his father.
Morana, now a full grown woman, waits in the castle, bathing in the blood of virgin youths as a part of her coming of age rite.
Though offered Malebolgia's crown by the sinister Mammon, Spawn declines both it and an offer to enter the gates of Heaven. Some time later, Jim returns to Sara as Sam and Twitch arrive at the place Jim killed the men and agree that the situation has given them the sense of Deja Vu. He also warns that Armageddon cannot be stopped - it is Earth's destiny. These organs magically re-appear when he regenerates his wounds. Afterwards, Jim goes back up to Sara to tell her goodbye again. It was explained to him that the Purgatory did not care for the war of Heaven and Hell, but were growing increasingly agitated by the destruction it brought about. Cyan sees her mother covered in blood every time they see each other. Seconds later, a hospital patient awakens from a coma. It was Mammon/Mr. Mother explains that Cyan was right; Spawn needed to die in order to be resurrected and gain the power to rival God and Satan. The costume tries to convince Simmons that his wife Wanda Blake had betrayed him while they were married. In the talk she tells him she first meet him years ago a little after Al Simmons first appeared on Earth as Spawn but in the first form Al tried to talk to Wanda in. In the Resurrection storyline, it's revealed that Wanda was killed in a riot. Urizen was wreaking havoc on the world, and the Purgatory imbued him with a "gift" which, after recovering thanks to Angela, Spawn uses to contain Urizen. After screaming for Sara a few times Sara comes running but discovers that he has jumped out the window. On the way to the castle, Mammon reveals that Al Simmons has now outlived his usefulness, as a new, better host is already prepared to take his place, loyal to his plans and more powerful than Al Simmons ever was. At the end of the talk Wanda looks into Jim's eyes and realizes he is a Spawn and tells him where to go for answers but tells him that she can't be a part of it any more. Salvation arrived in the form of a mound of festering garbage - The Heap, an emissary of the Purgatory, a power equal to Heaven and Hell that Spawn had never encountered before. Mammon hands a box to Cogliostro, who kills himself and ends up in Hell, box in hand. There, he is greeted by his mother, who recognizes Al Simmons even in the form of Spawn while Al Simmons' father is shocked.
Spawn has a limited power supply whose quantity would be shown to the reader in the form of a counter that began at 9:9:9:9.
The setting shifts to Mammon's residence where it is revealed that Mammon was guiding Spawn's costume into turning against him. Al Simmons convinces Wanda to return to the earthly plane with Cyan and Nyx, and after giving her a last farewell, and an apology for the life they never could have had together, he stays behind, searching for a way to be reborn as a new individual, no more a tool of Heaven and Hell. Tiffany, like fellow angel Angela, is a Hellspawn hunter. Spawn battles the Hellspawn, calling upon the earth to swallow them, returning