Rhino hold what remains of the clone
of his dead wife, Oksana. As he does so, Rhino remembers all the great times he
had, causing himself to feel like he failed her once again.
Remembering Gwen Stacy “dying”
again, Spider-Man leaves Rhino to mourn and follows Dr. Clarkson, with
Spider-Gwen, Kaine and Anna, to where New U was keeping the patients they were able
to save in cryo chambers.
One of the patients turns out to be
Jerry (the Parker Industries employee that almost died in a plant explosion).
Spider-Man contacts Jerry’s wife with his Webware so she can talk to Jerry. As
they talk Jerry starts suffering from his condition and the New U doctors take
him away.
Jerry’s wife asks Spider-Man what is
happening to him. Spider-Man goes over how New U cloned everyone and that while
the Jerry she just talked to is the real one his heart and lungs are still
damaged from the plant explosion.
Jerry’s wife can’t believe what is
happening and blames Peter Parker for her family’s suffering. Spider-Man tells
her that Peter will make sure to ensure her and her son’s future but Jerry’s
wife is still intent on suing Peter and Parker Industries.
After Jerry’s wife hangs up Anna
tells Spider-Man not to blame himself for what happened.
Spider-Man asks Anna how she is
doing. Anna says she is still trying to process almost dying and meeting Doctor
Octopus in this way again. Anna then tells Spider-Man once again not to blame
himself, as he did not know what New U was doing.
Spider-Man approaches Kaine and asks
him if he feels better now for not coming to Spider-Man for help from the
beginning. Kaine unapologetically says he is as the Carrion Virus did not
infect the world.
Before they can continue their
conversation SHIELD barges into the lab with Horizon Labs with them. Spider-Man
questions Max Modell about being able to trust SHIELD since Jackal had agents
in all levels of government and police officials. Max says that SHIELD is
currently in the process of finding all of Jackal’s agents, including those in
the SFPD and the clone of villains that survived.
As they talk Lizard is able to sneak
himself and his family away before SHIELD can find them.
One of the SHIELD agents wonders
what they should do with Rhino. Spider-Man says they should leave him alone for
now.
Spider-Man then approaches Silk to
tell her to watch over J. Jonah Jameson as he won’t want to talk to him in
either of his identities.
Dr. Clarkson hands over all the
information she has on the people New U cloned to SHIELD. The SHIELD agent
tells her that her cooperation will make her sentencing a lot easier.
Spider-Gwen checks up on Spider-Man.
Spider-Man says he is fine.
Kaine suddenly grabs Spider-Man him
and says they can’t rest with Jackal (Ben Reilly) still around. Spider-Man says
that Jackal is dead but Kaine says they can’t confirm that just because
Jackal’s helmet was found in a pile of clone dust. Kaine walks away saying that
Spider-Man’s sympathy for Ben Reilly is why he didn’t come to him in the first
place.
Spider-Gwen tries to talk to
Spider-Man but he brushes her off and tells her to go back home to her
universe.
Spider-Gwen finds Kaine in Jackal’s
lab and wonders if he is going to leave things on bad terms with Spider-Man.
Kaine says that it is Spider-Man’s call and he is going after Ben. Spider-Gwen
thinks Kaine should take it easy but Kaine says it is his job to stop Ben.
Before heading back to her universe
Spider-Gwen mentions what Spider-Man told her and how he might not see her as
the real Gwen Stacy. Kaine tells Spider-Gwen that she is real and the prime
Marvel Universe Gwen Stacy would greatly admire her.
Spider-Man enters a room with other
dying patients that New U had and asks the SHIELD agents for some time alone.
They honor his request and Spider-Man takes off his mask and apologizes to the
container holding Uncle Ben’s remains.
Spider-Man’s mourning doesn’t last
as he hears Rhino rampaging throughout Haven. The SHIELD agents try to contain
Rhino but are unsuccessful.
Spider-Man tries to stop Rhino and
reason with him that Oksana would not want to see him this way. Rhino is filled
with rage as he rams Spider-Man through buildings, stating without Oksana there
is nothing for him. Spider-Man finally gets through to Rhino that he needs to
put his head down and move forward and maybe they can get through everything
that happened together.
Sometime later at Horizon Labs Max
finishes running his tests and finds that Spider-Man and Rhino are not
infected. Some SHIELD agents take Rhino away with Spider-Man promising to check
up on him so they can help each other out from time to time.
Somewhere beneath San Francisco the
Lizard is happy after finding a way to stabilize his wife and son’s condition.
He then goes to have dinner with his wife and son, who have now been turned
into lizard creatures like himself, though without the ability to speak
coherently.
Sometime later Dr. Rita Clarkson
goes to her favorite bar to drink away everything that has happened. While
sitting at a table she is joined by Ben Reilly. Ben reveals that he faked his
death after taking a bunch of pills and stealing someone’s Webware while
Spider-Man’s signal was still going out.
Rita wonders how Ben found her. Ben
says he knows a lot about her. Rita express how she thought New U was doing
good things for the world and now she is being treated as a villain for her
involvement. Ben says they were doing good. Rita brings up how they were
playing God. Ben defends his actions by saying that God has been lazy and they
filled the hole that people needed.
As they talk two men approach them.
They reveal to Rita that their loved ones were one of New U’s “patients” that
turned into dust. They threaten Rita and tell her to come outside with them to
kill her.
Ben steps in and uses his powers to
quickly take out the two guys threatening Rita.
After grabbing one of the guys’
hoody Ben goes outside with Rita. Rita takes Ben to her bank where she takes
out all of her savings and hands it over to Ben as a thank you for saving her
life. Ben mentions that he used what he knew to get the guys to try to kill her
but Rita doesn’t care and still gives Ben the money.
Ben takes the money he considers a
loan and kisses Rita. He says he is now going to head to Broadway. Rita thinks
Ben is heading to New York but Ben says there is other Broadways in the world.
He then walks off.
At a restaurant in San Francisco
Spider-Man throws several of Kingpin’s guards through the front wall.
Spider-Man then threatens the rest of Kingpin’s guards not to mess with him.
While Kingpin expresses that Spider-Man’s fight with his guards is disrupting
his meal he also mentions just wanting to have a business meeting with Peter
Parker. Spider-Man says Peter is a busy guy so he can deal with him.
Kingpin says he understands since
Parker Industry’s Webware has failed and Peter and Spider-Man have to deal with
the fallout with all the clones. He then says that he wants to now repay Peter
in order to be debt-free.
Spider-Man gets pissed off,
believing Kingpin is messing with him, and flips the table Kingpin was eating
on. Kingpin gets up and shows Spider-Man a flashdrive containing information on
his greatest villain. Spider-Man wonders who Kingpin is talking about. Kingpin
reveals it is information on “Osborn.” End of issue.
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