Spider-Man and Beast, captives of the Brand Corporation! Plus, what happens when the Hobgoblin comes to possess the mutant-creating serum pioneered by Brand?
With the building collapsing around them, Spider-Man orders the Beast to get everyone out as he tries to web up the ceiling to make it hold for a little while longer. With everyone safely out of the building the Beast runs back in to watch as the ceiling finally gives, dropping debris down on top of Spider-Man, burying him under thick rumble. The Beast manages to move some of it out of the way to find Spider-Man safely in the center of it all.
Wanting answers Spider-Man and the Beast decide to follow the Hobgoblin, thanks to a Spidey tracer Spider-Man managed to plant. Before they leave the conference room, their plans are overheard by Landon, the Brand Corporation's C.E.O., who calls in to the Brand headquarters telling them to stop Spider-Man and the Beast at whatever cost.
At the Brand headquarters, the Beast decides to split up with Spidey complaining about not wanting to get his fur singed on the electric fence, but really the Beast wanted to go in alone to deal with his own agenda inside while Spider-Man deals with the Hobgoblin. Watching all this from the security office on some monitors, the Hobgoblin trips the alarm letting the security guards know there are intruders within the building.
Making his way to the Computer room, the Beast sees the Hobgoblin and believes he's probably going to the same place as he is. In the computer room, the Hobgoblin has copied all of Brand's data and loaded a computer virus into the system, making the information he just stole from Brand priceless to the company. Beast sees this and wonders whether to do anything to him because he was there to pretty much do the same thing; protect the mutant race from any of Brand's findings.
Spider-Man finally catches up but just like how he escaped from the two heroes in the previous issue, Hobgoblin burst through a wall and on his way out pulled some wiring out of the wall to cause loads of sparks to fire to cover up his track making it hard for them to follow him. With the sparks settling down, the Beast tells Spider-Man to go after the Hobgoblin so that he can stay back and find out if Brand is indeed making a race of mutant slaves with their research.
Hobgoblin, with the Brand's data, makes his way to Brand's Corporate Office Tower to make a deal with Landon. Making his way up the building, Spider-Man gets to a window where the Hobgoblin is telling Landon that if he doesn't get paid, he'll go public with the knowledge that all of Brand's research result is phony.
While Spider-Man is dealing with the Hobgoblin, the Beast has to deal with the security guards who have finally made it into the computer room. Diving over most of the guards, one guard who is hidden by shadows takes down the Beast without any effort. Talking on phone to Landon the guards have plans for the Beast involving the company.
Hobgoblin has giving Landon his demands and they include gold, silver, diamonds and unmarked cash, plus the knowledge of what Brand is actually doing in case their deal falls through so that the Hobgoblin has something else to bargain with. Landon goes on to tell Hobgoblin that everything was perfect once before the mutants came and destroyed everything. He then goes on to reveal that he is unaware that the Beast is actually Henry McCoy and that he believes that the Beast actually killed McCoy. To honor his dead friend, Landon promised to carry on Henry's work in genetics.
As Landon tells him he's getting some money in his desk, he pulls out a gun and attempts to shoot the Hobgoblin, but Spider-Man jumps to the Hobgoblin's rescue and gets a blast in his back, falling unconscious. The Hobgoblin leaves but not until after he gives Landon a warning that now not only is the Brand company on ransom but so is his life. With Spider-Man now tied up, Landon decides to use Spider-Man for his mutantagenic experiments believing the web-head to be a mutant himself and revealing that Brand's plans are not to create a race of mutant slaves but it's planning on creating way to kill the mutant gene and strip all mutants of their super powers.
At a dark, quiet warehouse, a van drives up requesting to be admitted with their "package". The Brand company is using the warehouse to conduct their experimentation and they plan on using the Beast as a test subject. The Beast appears to still be unconscious but is only playing possum and at the last moment pushes off his guards and breaks his shackles. As he's running away a laser cage is turned on right where he's standing catching him prisoner to Dr. Everett Burgos. The good doctor knows Henry McCoy's secret identity but is still going to use him as a guinea pig to try and destroy all of mutant-kind.
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