An explosion erupts off the roof of a Chinese restaurant, blowing a hole in the roof.
The Inner Demons are coughing, as Mister Negative looks up at the Hobgoblin, hovering in the air on his goblin glider and laughing.
"Ah, yeah, Hobgoblin, will do just fine," Hobgoblin stops laughing, as he looks down with a smirk. "Don't you think, Mister Negative?"
"I'm done dealing with super freaks tonight," Mister Negative says, as his sword's blade glows black and he swipes with it, launching a dark slash.
Hobgoblin flies to the side, dodging the dark slash, "Ha! Aren't you the super pot calling the freak kettle a super freak."
"Enough!" Mister Negative leaps up at Hobgoblin.
"Enough?" Hobgoblin flies back as he pulls a goblin bomb out of his bag. "I'm just starting, darlin'."
Hobgoblin throws the pumpkin bomb, which explodes in front of Mister Negative, knocking him back and against a wall, "Argh!"
"In fact, this is just the starting act," Hobgoblin rises up into the air. "Burn down all the crime lords' kingdoms, then raise Castle Hobgoblin!" The Inner Demons rush to Mister Negative's side, as he returns to his feet. "Then I might be ready for Act Deux, that's French." Hobgoblin sticks both hands into his bag. "But first…" He pulls his hands out, tossing two pumpkin bombs. "Burning down the kingdoms!"
"Back to the tunnel!" Mister Negative shouts.
The pumpkin bombs go off, causing explosions around the restaurant, as the Inner Demons and Mister Negative rush into the back room and jump into the trapdoor. Mister Negative closes the trapdoor, as parts of the ceiling cover it.
Mister Negative falls down, as the tunnel shakes.
An Inner Demon watches as Mister Negative returns to his feet, "What now, boss?"
"We lay low for the moment, but that… Hobgoblin was right about one thing," Mister Negative says, before looking up. "This has just got started."
Hobgoblin is flying away from the smoking and partly demolished restaurant, "Now, the next kingdom. HAHAHAHA!"
"Admissible"
The next day, at Midtown Manhattan Magnet High School, Peter and Gwen are walking through a hall, from opposite directions, before they nearly bump into each other.
"Oh, hi," Gwen nervously says.
"Hi, hi," Peter nervously says.
An uncomfortable silence passes as the two teens nervously stand in front of each other.
Gwen sighs, before facing Peter, "Listen, Pete, I know you have been avoiding me…"
"I-I hadn't been avoiding you, not really," Peter explains. "I just, I just want to give you some space."
"I appreciate that, and that's what I've wanted, but…" Gwen looks to the side.
"What?!"
Peter and Gwen look to the side to see Harry down the hall, holding a copy of the Daily Bugle, standing next to Kenny and Glory.
Harry throws down the newspaper, then runs away from Kenny and Glory.
Peter and Gwen walk over to Kenny and Glory, who look at each other confused.
"What was that about?" Peter asks.
"Don't know, I just asked if he saw the Bugle's morning edition," Kenny explains, as Peter picks up the newspaper. "Then he freaked out."
Gwen looks over Peter's shoulder, reading the front page's heading, "'New Goblin in Town'?"
"'A new goblin supervillain was seen laying waste to a recently opened Chinese restaurant'..." Peter reads the article.
Peter focuses on a blurry photo showing Hobgoblin on his goblin glider flying away, next to the credits "Written by Ned Lee. Photograph by Lance Bannon."
"A new goblin…" Peter whispers.
"I have to go," Gwen hurries in the direction Harry went.
"Yeah, me too," Peter passes the newspaper to Kenny before hurries in the opposite direction.
Kenny and Glory look at each, then shrug their shoulders.
In the lab beneath the LTL Bodyshop, Tinkerer walks by some equipment, talking on his Osberry phone.
"Don't worry, Lincoln had so many off the book properties that Dr. Octavius was able to 'appropriated' this place after his lab sank last New Year," Tinkerer says to the phone. "Odds the Feds could find this place… Right, right, it sounds like a special request, but for an old friend…"
Suddenly an explosion blows a hole through the ceiling, with Tinkerer cowers back slightly.
"One of these days, I have to use the door," Hobgoblin slowly lowers himself through the hole on his goblin glider. "But where would be the fun in that?"
"I have to get back to you," Tinkerer says, before he hangs up on his phone.
"Oh, you must be the one and only Tinkerer," Hobgoblin leans down on his glider.
"You've heard of me?" Tinkerer stands up, straightens his lab coat.
"Who in the current criminal underworld haven't heard of you?" Hobgoblin stands tall, as his glider flies back up slightly. "Heck, since you had worked with 'Doc Master Planner Ock', 'the Big Man of many names', and 'new kid Mister Negative', then this will be burning down three houses with one explosive."
"What?" Tinkerer responds.
Hobgoblin throws a pumpkin bomb, which goes off against a large piece of equipment, blowing it apart, knocking Tinkerer down. Tinkerer then quickly returns to his feet and runs through the lab.
"Mmhm, perhaps I need a few more explosives," Hobgoblin says, before he smirks. "Too bad."
Hobgoblin starts laughing, as he throws more pumpkin bombs all around the lab, setting off explosions.
Tinkerer repeatedly presses a button next to a door, before it opens. He looked over his shoulder, "And Dmitri was worried about the Feds." He hurries through the doorway, with the door closing behind him, before another explosion goes off.
Gwen exits the school to find Harry talking on his Osberry phone.
"Harry, I'm busy…" Emily's heard on the phone.
"But mom, how could there be a new Goblin," Harry interrupts. "After what happened with dad… could it have something to do with your phone call about OsCorp the other day…"
"Calm down, my son," Emily's heard saying.
Harry becomes more relaxed.
"I will take care of everything," Emily's heard saying. "Just focus on what matters, my dear."
"Yes, mom," Harry says, before he hangs up his phone.
Gwen approaches him, "Harry, are you okay?"
"No, I'm not," Harry says, angrily without raising his voice, surprising Gwen. Harry sighs, before he turns away from her, "I need to clear my head."
Gwen watches as Harry walks away.
"Could Harry fall into some… bad habits," Gwen looks to the side, before looking back ahead. "Maybe there's something I could do."
Spider-Man is web swinging through the city, "How can this be possible? How could there be a second Goblin, especially… especially since Norman is gone." Spider-Man lands on the corner of a building's roof. "A copy-goblin? Could they be connected to OsCorp… to Gobulin Green?"
Suddenly, an explosion goes off the side of a tall building in the distance.
"Tombstone's office building?" Spider-Man fires a webline, before he starts to web swing toward the building. "Something's telling me Tombie's old henchmen aren't throwing an out of control party."
Spider-Man quickly swings over to the building, before jumping through a hole in the building's side and landing on the wall of Tombstone's smoke filled office.
"The landlord isn't gonna be happy about the redecorations," Spider-Man jokes.
"Too bad," the smoke starts to clear, as Hobgoblin, on his goblin glider, starts to turn to face Spider-Man, whose eyes widen. "I have such big plans for this building. I have big plans for this entire city."
"There is another Goblin," Spider-Man says.
"No no no," Hobgoblin waves a finger. "It's Hobgoblin not 'Another Goblin', it's very important."
"Fine, but tell me this," Spider-Man fires a webline to Hobgoblin, pulls him off his glider, and then grabs him by his bag strap. "What with the random act of destruction?"
"Not random, far from it," Hobgoblin says, before he fires two finger lasers, forcing Spider-Man to let go of him, grabs his wrists to force the lasers into the wall, and allowing Hobgoblin to kicks off Spider-Man, freeing himself, with Hobgoblin falling back and onto his goblin glider.
Hobgoblin flies back, pulling out a goblin bomb, "Pay attention, Spidey, I'm going after all the crime bosses' bases, including the Big Man's empire."
Hobgoblin throws the pumpkin bomb to the other end of the office.
Spider-Man jumps off the wall, fires a webline at the pumpkin bomb, spins and throws the pumpkin bomb through the hole, with it exploding harmless in the air.
"There's a bunch of people who have nothing to do with the Big Man in this building," Spider-Man lands on the floor, before watching Hobgoblin flying toward the office's entrance.
Hobgoblin slams through the door and out of the office, with Spider-Man in pursuit, with several people looking up in fright, "You can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs."
Spider-Man lands on the glider behind Hobgoblin, then wraps his arms around him, pinning Hobgoblin's arms, "No omelet for you, Hobgobby."
"C'mon, and after I finally used the door," Hobgoblin says, starting to laugh, as his glider spins around and he fires laser fingers all around.
People are screaming as they are heading toward the exit, with Spider-Man calling out, "Evacuate the building!"
The glider continues spinning, as Hobgoblin looks over his shoulder and struggles to pull Spider-Man arms off him, "Smart thinking, hero, by the way, do you know the meaning of defenestration?"
"As a matter of fact, I do," Spider-Man responds.
"Exactly, then you should see this coming," Hobgoblin says, as the glider suddenly stops, with Hobgoblin leaning forward and throwing Spider-Man off his back and through a window.
"This is getting tedious," Spider-Man fires a webline, before pulling himself back through the broken window.
At the same time, Hobgoblin flies through a door and into the stairway, as several people are hurrying down the stairs.
"During an emergency, it's safer to use the stairs than an elevator," Hobgoblin says, holding up a pumpkin bomb. "Let's change that."
Hobgoblin throws the pumpkin bomb down the stairway, before exploding near the bottom, damaging and starting to break apart the stairs, as people are holding on for their lives.
Spider-Man swings into the stairway and lands on the wall, "What have you done?!"
"What's it gonna be, hero?" Hobgoblin looks over at Spider-Man. "Catching the villain or saving the bystanders?"
A woman at the bottom of the damaged stairs, starts to lose her hold, before starting to fall.
"No!" Spider-Man jumping off the wall, falling past Hobgoblin.
In mid fall, Spider-Man grabs the woman, turns and fires a webline at the ceiling, stopping himself and the woman several feet above the floor.
"Not too bad," Hobgoblin mocking applause, before he starts to turn. "Now I have one more stop today."
Hobgoblin flies out of the stairway and through the broken window, grinning, "You gotta love the classics."
As it's getting late, Gwen enters OsCorp's lobby, when the guard at the front desk notices her.
The guard gets up and holds out a hand, "Sorry, Mrs., you can't go any further."
"I-I'm friends with Harry Osborn," Gwen nervously says.
"Good for you, now you need…" the guard starts before the phone on his desk starts to ring.
The guard turns slightly to answer the phone, "Yes…"
As the guard talks on the phone, Gwen notices an ID card on the desk.
"No, OsCorp won't be hosting any tours, goodbye," the guard finishes, before hanging up the phone. He then sees that Gwen is gone, unaware of the elevator closing several feet behind him.
Inside the elevator, Gwen stands against the back wall, holding the ID card close to her chest.
"So, a police captain's daughter is now trespassing," Gwen says, then looks down. "And I might be due for a first ever 'the look' from my dad…" She looks at the ID card in her hand. "But it might be worth it if I could help Harry from falling into that Gobulin Green again." She looks back ahead, determined. "Not to mention, if this new Goblin could be related to his father."
Two people get off the webbed together stairway and through a door to another floor, as Spider-Man watches and presses a new web cartridge onto his left webshooter.
"The barely held together stairs had been evacuated," Spider-Man fires a webline and pulls himself back into the top floor. "Webshooters refilled." He fires two more weblines and pulls himself through the broken window and flips onto the roof. "Now to find the new goblin in town. But where?"
Spider-Man places a hand on his chin, "He said he's after crime bosses' bases… which would include the Green Goblin." He fires a webline and starts to swing away. "And if he knew his true identity, that would mean OsCorp!"
At OsCorp, Gwen slowly pushes open a door, leading to an office room.
"Mrs. Osborn's office," Gwen whispers to herself. "Though I guess it was Mr. Osborn's office."
Gwen enters and looks around, before sighing, "I don't even know what to look for…" She turns and her hand bumps against a stack of books on the desk. Gwen starts to look at them. "Of course, just books on chemical formulas, and…" She holds up one book. "Huh, this appeared out of place."
At that moment, Gwen hears an explosion in the distance behind her, nearly causing her to jump. She returns the books to their stack on the desk, then hurries to the door, slowly opening it slightly and looks out to see smoke surrounding a hole in the wall, as Hobgoblin hovers through the smoke on his goblin glider.
"Knock, knock, is anyone home?" Hobgoblin mockingly asks, before hearing a small creaking. He then noticed the closed office door.
Behind the office desk, Gwen is hiding under the desk, when the door is blown off its hinges. Gwen closes her eyes for a moment, before nervously opening them.
Hobgoblin slowly floats into the office on his glider, before jumping off it, "Ah, the throne room of the OsCorp kingdom." He grins. "Loving that metaphor." He starts to walk through the office, looking around. "What little secrets could I find here?"
Hobgoblin picks up one of the books, glances at it, then seats it back down. He then starts to walk around the desk, facing the back wall, with Gwen nervously sitting under the desk.
Without turning, Hobgoblin smiles, "So, someone is home."
Gwen's eyes widen with fear, when she hears, "Freeze, you freak."
Hobgoblin looks over his shoulder to see two security guards at the entrance, aiming their firearms at him.
"Sorry, fellas, but it's a tad too warm to freeze, in fact…" Hobgoblin starts, before he spins and jumps off the desk, landing on his glider. "I'm gonna heat things up."
Suddenly, a pumpkin bomb shoots out the glider's mouth, with the guards jumping to the side to dodge, as the pumpkin bomb explodes.
Hobgoblin flies out of the office, laughing, with the two guards returning to their feet to chase him, as three other guards are waiting and start firing their firearms. Hobgoblin pulls out two pumpkin bombs from his bag and throws them on the ground, with the guards scattering as the pumpkin bombs explode.
Gwen peeks out of the office's doorway, spies the elevator doors down the hall, and then rushes toward it.
Hobgoblin holds up another pumpkin bomb, "Now this is a party."
Webbing suddenly hits Hobgoblin's hand, webbing the pumpkin bomb to it.
"Party's over," Spider-Man web swings through the hole in the wall.
"Not with these party flavors," Hobgoblin pulls two razor bats out of his bag and throws them.
Spider-Man lets go of a webline, then spins around in midair, dodging both razor bats as they pass him.
"Nobody likes a showoff," Hobgoblin uses another razor bat to cut the webbing on his hand, notices the closing elevator door, then throws the pumpkin bomb at Spider-Man.
"I'm not showing off," Spider-Man fires a webline to the side and pulls himself over, dodging the pumpkin bomb as it explodes, with him sticking to a wall. "But I had plenty of practice dealing with clowns like you."
"I'm not a clown, more of a ringmaster," Hobgoblin says, as he flies back on his glider. "For example. Ladies, gentlemen, web slingers, keep your eye on the center ring!" He fires a finger laser at the elevator buttons, blasting them, with the elevator doors opening with a ding. "Without a net, without a prayer, watch the incredible falling elevator car!"
Hobgoblin throws a razor bat into the elevator shaft, cutting the cable, as Gwen feels the elevator car shake as it starts to fall and she gives off a scream.
"NO!" Spider-Man jumps off the wall, fires a webline into the elevator shaft, pulls himself into it, before grabbing the top severed cable, then fires a webline at the other severed cable, catching the elevator car.
"You have your hands full, so I see myself out," Hobgoblin floats past the elevator shaft, then flies back to the hole.
Inside the elevator car, Gwen returns to her feet, then notices the ID card in her hand. She slides the card through a card reader next to the door, with the door opening, revealing the car is between two floors.
Taking a breath, Gwen slides onto the lower floor and falls down onto her feet. She turns back to the elevator shaft, "I'm out!"
"That voice," Spider-Man's eyes widened. "What's she doing here…?" He releases the webline, dropping the now empty elevator car to the bottom of the shaft. "Later, right now…" He jumps out of the shaft and fires a webline. "I got a goblin to catch."
Flying high above OsCorp, Hobgoblin holds up a pumpkin bomb, "OsCorp's resources have been good to me, but all good things must go down in a burning inferno." He starts to turn. "Now, the best spot for a chain reaction…"
A thwip sound distracts Hobgoblin, who looks down to see Spider-Man is climbing a webline connected to the bottom of his glider, "This ends now, Hobgobby."
"Argh, why is everyone trying to ruin my fun before I really get started?" Hobgoblin complains.
"Fun?!" Spider-Man swings on the webline, flipping toward Hobgoblin's back. "How many people have you almost hurt today?!"
"Don't know," Hobgoblin turns and fires a finger laser at Spider-Man's chest, knocking him back. "I lost count." Spider-Man fires another webline to the glider and swings back around. "Besides, I'm not set out to hurt people."
"Then why?!" Spider-Man releases the webline, fires another webline at the glider and pulls himself at Hobgoblin.
"To be the biggest, baddest crime boss of them all," Hobgoblin fires a finger laser, with Spider-Man spins past it, before leapfrog off Hobgoblin's shoulders. "Hey!"
Spider-Man fires a webline at the glider, pulls himself to Hobgoblin's back, wrapping his legs around Hobgoblin's torso, "That's why you stole Green Goblin's tech. Then you must've missed the memo where I beat him."
"Oh, I didn't," Hobgoblin struggles to get Spider-Man off him, while keeping a hold on the pumpkin bomb in one hand. "Also, I didn't just steal the tech, I improved it."
Spider-Man grabs the top of Hobgoblin's mask and starts to pull, before electricity surges Spider-Man, "Aaahhh!"
"Like boobytrapping my mask!" Hobgoblin back swings his free arm, knocking Spider-Man off his back and sending him falling. "Oh, by the way, bombs away!"
Spider-Man's eyes slowly move before widening as he sees the falling pumpkin bomb, "Oh boy…"
Spider-Man uses both web shooters to cover the pumpkin bomb in webbing, before it blows up, with the slightly muffled explosion sending Spider-Man falling faster.
"Hopefully, I have enough for one more shot," Spider-Man turns and fires a webline, connected to the side of a building, before he swings and grabs a flagpole, then pulls himself onto the pole to sit.
Spider-Man watches as Hobgoblin, laughing, flies far away, "Too far and too fast to give chase…" Spider-Man holds onto his side. "Arg… not to mention too sore and too bruised…"
Gwen is leaving the OsCorp building, before turning to see Hobgoblin flying away.
"Can add him to the list of supervillains I ran into," Gwen says to herself, before turning back to the building, before looking down, disappointed. "And I was trespassing for nothing."
In her home office, Emily is looking at her computer screen, watching security footage of Gwen entering her OsCorp office.
Emily focuses her eyes, as she motions her mouse and clicks it.
She looks past her screen, "Harry, come here."
After a few minutes, Harry enters the office, "Yes, mom."
"I was thinking, it's about time we have your little girlfriend over for dinner," Emily suggests.
"Yeah, that sounds great, mom," Harry says, happy.
Emily puts her hands together, "But first, Harry Osborn, tell me everything you know about Gwen Stacy."
At the Parker house, Peter lies back onto his bed, with a small grunt.
"Home before nine, in a lot of pain, thank you spider healing, and no pictures for the Bugle…" Peter sighs, before he notices the window and the sky beyond. "Worse, a new crazed Goblin is out there. He could be as dangerous as the original… if not more so…"