2. Consequences
Spider-Man and John Jameson depart Counter-Earth on Solaris I and wave goodbye to everyone they knew, from their former allies from the Human Resistance to their former enemies on the High Evolutionary's side. Later, after they leave, the High Evolutionary holds a grand opening in New York for the first human relations embassy to further seal the equal relationships that humans and Beastials have acquired following the symbiote invasion. However, a human in the crowd shoots the High Evoltionary in the chest, declaring that the High Evolutionary's opening of this embassy is nothing but a cheap trick that would be used to bring about the ultimate downfall of humanity. The assassin is quickly caught and arrested, while the High Evolutionary is rushed to a hospital. Meanwhile, Venom and Carnage look out among this on the privacy of a nearby rooftop.
Meanwhile, in orbit around Counter-Earth, Spider-Man and Jameson pilot Solaris I through the portal that bridges the gap between Earth and Counter-Earth. On the other side, Jameson pilots the shuttle through Earth's atmosphere down toward a tarmac at NASA, announcing his arrival via radio. His return to his home planet is greeted by his coworkers at NASA, which is covered via news coverage, but the happy greetings become wary with suspicion with Spider-Man on John's side. NASA gives John's father, Jonah, the permission to arrive at NASA, with several hundred more spectators. After a brief reunion with his father, John tells everyone about his overall experiences on Counter-Earth, like his involvement in the Human Resistance against the High Evolutionary. However, when Spider-Man gets to tell his side of the story, he has to confront the question about the fact of Peter Parker's absence, since he declared, as Parker, that he came along with Spider-Man with the launching of Solaris II from Earth. So he lies by saying that thanks to the symbiote invasion, Parker died in the onslaught of the Synoptic's consequences.
Back on Counter-Earth, Karen O'Malley, the High Evolutionary's granddaughter, is thrown into an angry grief that her grandfather has died. And because of her grandfather's death, she is granted his place as the next High Evolutionary. Immediately after her inauguration, she declares that the oppression against humankind will resume thanks to the grief over her grandfather's loss, seeing that humans and Beastials can never coexist equally. The humans are forced to return to the underworld slums that is the Basement, and not so long after, the Human Resistance is reformed under the leadership of Daniel Bromley. Lord Tiger, who was never all that enthusiastic over human oppression in the first place, questions his place in Karen's new regime. She says that she will forgive him for betraying her grandfather to the Resistance, but he will only have one chance to prove his loyalty to her. With that, Tiger declares his outright loyalty, though he silently questions Karen's intentions as to why she would recall human oppression when she had experienced it firsthand.
Going back to Earth, Spider-Man returns to his home with Mary Jane waiting for him. But instead of welcoming him back with open arms and a sweet kiss, she slaps him and declares her outright anger for his going to Counter-Earth to retrieve John Jameson. In the first place Not only that, but the one main reason that she's angry with him is because of his declaration to the crowd at NASA that Peter Parker died back on Counter-Earth. Peter asks her if she wants to kick him out, but despite her anger, MJ takes him back. However, they're both left with one question - now that Peter Parker is dead, how will Spider-Man be able to ever live a normal life again?
Shifting the story back to Counter-Earth, Lord Tiger comes to the conclusion that it's not only illogical for Karen to turn on humanity as the High Evolutionary; under her past circumstances as a human, it's impossible. So Tiger does some snooping around within Karen's chambers, and realizes that she is being brainwashed by Sir Ram. Lord Tiger is caught by Ladies Ursula and Vermin, and the original High Evolutionary appears before Lord Tiger. All of the figures reveal that the original High Evolutionary never really believed in Spider-Man's claim that humans and Beastials could coexist equally and that the alliance between the two species was a ruse; the goal being to have Spider-Man and John Jameson finally leave Counter-Earth, thus lessening the Human Resistance by two members, and also to have the previous state of human oppression properly put back into place. So they decided to lure Karen into a false state of security, kidnap her, and brainwash her to turn on the humans, now that she's a Beastial, following her grandfather's "death." And as for the assassin himself, he was promised that he would live a luxurious life in Washington, but instead, Lady Ursula killed him so that the nature of the High Evolutionary's "death" was never revealed Then Ladies Ursula and Vermin take Lord Tiger away for execution, because as it was proven before, he can't be trusted as a Knight of Wundagore, and that the knowledge he learned would be the downfall of not only Karen as the High Evolutionary, but of her grandfather as well.