In the recent New Avengers series, several hundred super-powered criminals escaped from The Raft (i.e. a prison for super powered criminals), although some were stopped by Spider-Man and the likes of Daredevil, Captain America, Luke Cage, Spider-Woman (i.e. Jessica Drew), Iron Man and the Sentry, a new super hero with amazing (but deadly) abilities. In the aftermath of the prison breakout, Captain America asked Spider-Man and the others to join the New Avengers. At first resilient to join them, Spider-Man finally accepted his proposition.

In Amazing Spider-Man #519, Peter, Mary Jane and Aunt May move into Stark Tower to live with the New Avengers. Aunt May immediately hits it off with Captain America (a.k.a. Steve Rogers) and Jarvis, the Avengers butler, and MJ falls in love with her new pad and is excited to finally be living in Peter's world. Peter however, seems reluctant to live in Stark Tower and hopes that this is only a temporary solution to their current situation, not a permanent one. To make matters worse for Peter, Wolverine seems to take a predictable liking to MJ.

The second part of Amazing Spider-Man #519 deals with the criminal syndicate known as Hydra who are planning to take over the world using some evil duplicates of the Avengers. This is where this issue picks up.

ACT 1: The Hydra spokesperson that was talking to the large group of Hydra members continues elaborating about their plan to take over the world and introduces four of the five evil duplicates of the Avengers; the duplicates look like Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and the Vision.

ACT 2: The next morning, Aunt May awakens very early and heads into the kitchen to start breakfast for Peter and Mary Jane but as she enters the kitchen, she finds Jarvis already at work on preparing breakfast. As the two engage into a conversation, Aunt May realizes that Jarvis hasn't had breakfast cooked for him for several years so she orders him to sit down, as she will take care of preparing breakfast. Elsewhere in Stark Tower, Peter and MJ are talking about their current living situation when Luke, Steve and Jessica enter the living room and ask them to join them for breakfast. Meanwhile, a bare-chested cigar-smoking alcohol-drinking Wolverine enters the kitchen and is shocked to discover that breakfast it still not ready. Aunt May approaches him, grabs the cigar right out of his mouth and puts it out right into his drink, telling him that there is no smoking and no drinking in the breakfast room until after noon at the earliest; just as the others enter the kitchen. Furious, Wolverine walks out of the kitchen and mutters something about going down to the corner for doughnuts. Just then, Tony Stark walks into the kitchen and informs the others that he's just been informed that there are four serious problems that need to be taken care of and that they have to go...now. As the heroes leave the kitchen, Jarvis tells Aunt May that he is in awe.

ACT 3: The first one to arrive at one of the four crime scenes is Iron Man. Having broken into the BNT Bank and standing amidst the wreckage of broken automobiles and wounded innocent pedestrians, the duplicate version of Thor, unoriginally named The Hammer, is holding up a vehicle in one arm and wielding a twirling hammer in the other. Using his repulsion rays, Iron Man wastes no time and immediately blasts him with all his might, momentarily stunning him. The Hammer stands his ground and using his hammer, a duplicate of Thor's Mighty Mjolnir, he simulates lighting and directs it at Iron Man. Iron Man's grounding absorbs the bolt of electricity but he immediately realizes that he must shut his opponent soon before the electricity overloads his suit's circuitry. Iron Man flies down at full speed towards The Hammer and lands one solid punch. The Hammer barely budges upon impact so Iron Man resolves into grabbing him by the wrists and slamming him into a nearby brick wall using the thrusting power of his jet-boots.

ACT4: Meanwhile, at one of the other three crime scenes, the Sinclair Research Laboratories, Luke Cage and Spider-Woman (a.k.a. Jessica Drew) find the duplicate version of Iron Man, who goes by the name of Karl, rather than Tactical Force, which is what he is supposed to go by. Karl has apparently stolen enough DNA research information to start his own Fortune 500 Company and invites the two heroes to try and stop him. Luke grabs Spider-Woman and throws her directly at Karl. Spider-Woman crashes fist first into Karl's chest and sends him crashing to the ground several stories below.

ACT 5: In another part of town, at one of the two remaining crime scenes, a jewellery store, Captain America runs into the evil duplicate of himself, who goes by the name of Militant. Cap orders the Militant to stand down but the latter does not and attacks him.

ACT 6: Meanwhile, Spider-Man arrives at the fourth and last crime scene – the docks – and his spider-sense kicks in almost immediately. Looking around for the source of impending danger, he becomes aware of a shadowy figure holding a bow and arrow standing atop nearby scaffolding. Considering at first that it might be Hawkeye, Spidey realizes that it couldn't be him since he recently died during the Avengers Disassembled storyline. Nonetheless, Spidey approaches the individual to try and engage into a conversation with him and calls him Hawkeye, knowing full well that super-heroes as much as super-villains are known to sometimes come back from the dead. The individual turns to face Spidey, reveals himself to be Hawkeye's evil duplicate, The Bowman, and shoots five exploding arrows at him. Spidey dodges his arrows easily, adding his typical humour to the situation. Unimpressed by Spidey's comedic performance, The Bowman turns his aim towards innocent bystanders standing below and shoots another bunch of exploding arrows at them. Spidey yells at them to get out of the way while he webs up the arrows and throws them out of harm's way. Just then however, The Bowman grabs a larger exploding arrows and shoots at one of the warehouse down below. The warehouse bursts into flames, pieces flying all over the docks; while The Bowman flees the scene. Spidey resolves into not following him; instead he focuses on helping people to safely make it out of the burning warehouse.

ACT 7: Back at the jewellery store, Captain America has his hands full with the evil duplicate of himself, yet he seems to be getting the upper hand. That is until the Militant throws his shield at the glass ceiling, shattering it into pieces that start falling towards the ground where employees are lying unconscious. Shield above his head, Cap dives on top of the two employees and using his shield and body armor, protects them from the shattered glass. Just then, a beeping noise is heard and The Militant takes his leave before Captain America is able to stop him. Similarly, Karl hears the same beep, incapacitates Spider-Woman and Luke Cage, and takes his leave. Meanwhile at the BNT Bank, The Hammer also hears the beep and using an electromagnetic pulse, incapacitates Iron Man and flies away.

ACT 8: The next day, Peter sits with Mary Jane as they look at the latest Daily Bugle headline, which does not portray the New Avengers in the best of light. Wanting to know more about the headline, Peter calls Joe Robbie Robertson to find out how the Bugle got three photographers on the scenes of the attacks so quickly. Robbie tells Peter how it happened.

ACT 9: Later that day, Peter calls up a meeting and tells the others about what he found out. Peter explains that the Daily Bugle was tipped about three of the planned hits because for some unknown reason, Hydra wanted the press to be there to document the fights. In total disbelief, Steve (i.e. Captain America) asks Peter why they would do such thing. Peter replies that the "duplicates" did not even steal any money, jewellery or DNA information, which says that they weren’t even worried about the money, which tells them two things: 1) that they don't need the money, which is scary by itself and 2) if they need the money, then why hit the docks, where there weren't any expensive cargos coming in, and why just blow up the main building, the records building, where ships log in their cargo manifest? Stunned, Jessica asks Peter if the attack at the docks was worthless. Peter replies that, on the contrary, he believes that the real target was the docks, and the others were just distraction. Peter goes on explaining that by destroying the records, there would be no way to determine which ships were checked and which ships weren't, which explains why the Bugle was not tipped off about that attack – Hydra did not want any photographic record of the docks. Peter continues explaining that Hydra probably wanted to use the confusion to slip something on board one of those cargo boats past them, customs, and everybody else. Peter goes on explaining that Hydra used small-time robberies to distract them because that's what people have been expecting of Hydra recently. Peter concludes by saying that if he's right, Hydra has just smuggled something very dangerous into the country right under their noses. As he concludes his speech, large transport trucks are seen leaving the docks with bombs as their cargo.

To be continued.

Note: When the evil duplicates were introduced, one of the four had a cape and appeared to be a duplicate of the Vision. Yet, it was a duplicate of Hawkeye that Spidey fought, not the Vision. So what happened to the duplicate of the Vision? There were five tubes behind the Hydra spokesperson at the beginning of the book. Did Hydra change his mind and decide to send the duplicate of Hawkeye instead of that of the Vision? Or did the writer change his mind throughout the course of plotting this storyline?