| Synopsis
| - As Spider-Man continues to be hunted by men seeking to claim J.J. Jameson's reward for his capture, he discovers that his black suit appears to have a sonic weakness after some men use a sonic blaster against him. Spider-Man then decides to confront Jameson, warning him to call off the reward, but the publisher refuses. However, after visiting John in hospital, Jameson discovers that the Rhino was indeed at the scene of the shuttle robbery, prompting him to fire Eddie Brock for his lies and call off the bounty on Spider-Man.
Alistair Smythe demonstrates Prometheum-X's power to the Kingpin's buyers, showing that it can cause large-scale explosions when ignited. After watching Jameson's broadcast withdrawing the reward on Spider-Man and revealing the idea of the Rhino at the scene of the crime, Kingpin sends the Shocker to eliminate Eddie Brock, in order to prevent the shuttle robbery from being traced back to him.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man asks Dr. Connors to carry out some tests on his black suit, and although reluctant at first Connors does so and reveals that the suit is actually a symbiote, a living organism which must bond to a host to survive. He warns Spider-Man that in time the symbiote would replace it's host, urging him to remove it. However, Spider-Man is reluctant.
Back at home, Spidey analyzes the Prometheum-X and makes an interesting discovery.
When the Shocker confronts Brock and prepares to silence him, Spider-Man arrives and interferes, allowing Brock to escape. Shocker flees, and Spider-Man follows, stealing the Prometheum from him and Smythe. The Kingpin then demands that they must retrieve it back again immediately, and sends Shocker to kidnap John Jameson from his hospital bed and hold him at ransom for the Prometheum. J.J. then asks Spider-Man to help him return John, which is successful, but Smythe double crosses Spider-Man, ordering Shocker to destroy him. As they fight, Spider-Man easily gains the upper hand, webbing up an interfering Brock, before almost killing Shocker, although he refrains by saving him from a lethal fall. Spider-Man uses the sound of the church bells to detach from the symbiote. Weakened by the intense sound, the symbiote falls through a crack in the floor and Peter assumes it destroyed and flees the scene.
Back at Kingpin's HQ, his clients demand proof that the Prometheum isn't a fake before they pay for it. Alistair attempts to ignite the rock but nothing happens. Examining it, he reveals that the Prometheum had transmutated completely into lead due to its radioactive half-life that reduced its atomic structure within a matter of days. Kingpin is upset that Alistair didn't inform him of this sooner, to which the latter retorts that he never got an opportunity to study it. Either way, the Prometheum-X is useless and Kingpin's clients won't pay for a useless rock. An angry Kingpin grumbles that Spider-Man knew about this all along.
Meanwhile, the symbiote bonds with Brock.
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