Flashback: eight months ago, a
satellite encountered the remains of the Carnage symbiote where the
Sentry left it....
Now, three months after issue #1,
Spider-Man has located the woman injured in the chase, now hidden
away in a private hospital. She is Dr. Tanis Nieves, Shriek's
psychiatrist at the Ravencroft Institute, trying to prevent her
patient from being taken away. Her missing arm has already been
replaced, without her consent, with a new state-of-the-art
prosthesis. She is prevented from telling Spidey who the new owner of
Ravencroft is by the arrival of lawyers representing her new
employer. After Spidey swings off, Dr. Nieves is taken to Hall
Industries R&D where Shriek is contained in an elaborate device
which drains off her negative emotions and converts it into biomass.
As Dr. Nieves watches in horror, her new prosthetic arm makes her
kill the techs in the lab and points her back toward the symbiote....
Tony Stark has not been able to find
out who owns the truck, the lab, or the armored guards sent last
issue, but their netting resembles that of Carnage. Tony informs
Peter about all this and so Iron Man and Spidey join up to confront
the person Tony knows is behind this: Dr. Michael Hall. Arriving at
Hall's labs, they face the five flashy guards in high-tech
exoskeletons and there is a brief battle before the guards are
mysteriously called away....