Peter is tasked with getting photographs of the private funeral of Councilwoman Parfrey. After he goes to help his Aunt at the FEAST Project. Whilst there a known junkie called Freak takes the collection box and runs off. Peter chases after him and manages to corner him. Freak throws the box off the side of a building forcing Spider-Man to leaving him and save the money. The cops show up and force Spider-Man to leave. Meanwhile Freak falls through a skylight and finds needles in one of Curt Connors labs, desperate for a fix he injects himself. Later he is wandering the streets and vomits out a fibrous like substance that overwhelms him and builds a cocoon. The Bookie starts taking bets on what is inside the cocoon. Spider-Man goes to investigate the cocoon and just as he arrives it bursts open leaving behind a monstrous deformed Freak.; Wolverine and Charlie sit in a restaurant knowing it to be a trap. Spider-Man screws it up by busting in and causing the agents to start fighting. In all the smoke Charlie escapes and goes on to kill enemy agents. Wolverine and Spider-Man chase her, but are one step behind. Charlie meets Wolverine in a cemetery waiting for him to kill her before she is captured. Spider-Man stops Wolverine from cutting a fatal blow and they fight. Spider-Man is forced to rely completely on his spider-sense against Wolverine, who will not stop. A spotlight from a helicopter shines down on them, catching Spider-Man in its glare. Just then his spider-sense goes nuts, so he turns and punches by instinct. However, it isn't Wolverine attacking him but Charlie. She falls to the ground and dies. Wolverine and Peter leave East Berlin. Peter is haunted by the fatal punch as he travels home. Mary Jane arrives and hugs him to help the pain go away.; Freak has now broken out of his cocoon and starts running away, Officer O'Neil shoots him in the head and Freak falls into an open sewer drain. Once more Freak's body cocoons itself. The Bookie finds himself in trouble as he cannot pay out to the various villains he took bets from. Carlie investigates some of the evidence Freak left behind with Curt Connors who turns up to help. Dexter Bennett makes Peter take unflattering shots of Councilman Hollister. Freak discovers that his body has once more taken a different form. Jonah manages to get a copy of the Daily Bugle, but doesn't recognize it because it has been re-branded as the DB. Freak tracks down Spider-Man to a campaign event of Randall Crowne and attacks, but this time bullets are to no effect. Crowne draws the anger of Freak and is attacked.