Ever since that fateful day, Peter has lived a double life as the Amazing Spider-Man, a costumed super hero who has been put through more than his fair share of misery and heartache. And recently, things have only gotten worse.

After already registering his secret identity with the United States Government and revealing it to the world in a televised news conference, Peter found himself at odds with Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, and his registration agenda. The decision to leave Stark's side made Peter an outlaw on the run, and he has been living in a sleazy motel with his wife, Mary Jane and his Aunt May ever since.

Hoping to set things right again, Spider-Man joined Captain America and other anti-registration heroes in a titanic battle against Iron Man and his pro-registration allies in the middle of New York City. But after the smoke had cleared, Captain America was arrested, and Spider-Man and many of the other anti-reg heroes were forced underground.

And as Spider-Man fought old friends, an old enemy resurfaced. The imprisoned Kingpin of Crime, Wilson Fisk, hired a sniper to kill Parker and his loved ones. When Peter returned home that night, he sensed the sniper's presence, but not quickly enough. Though he knocked his wife out of a bullet's path...it has hit Aunt May instead.

ACT 1: Grabbing hold of Aunt May, Peter lays her down on the ground, as bullets continue to bounce around him. Then, leaving her there, he races out of the motel room to take the sniper out by throwing none other than a Jeep TJ at him, all the way from across the street. He then races back inside the motel room, where Mary Jane is dialing 911. Realizing that Aunt May will already be dead by the time an ambulance gets there, Peter grabs her limp body and swings off into the night toward the hospital. Seconds later, he crashes through a window and lays her down on a gurney. The noise alerts nearby nurses and doctors and they run into the room where they get to work on Aunt May instantly upon discovering her. Clinging to the wall outside the window, rage courses through Peter’s body.

ACT 2: At Ryker's Island Penitentiary, Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of crime, is delivered a message from one of the prison guard: "First gift basket not delivered. But one of the other two baskets was delivered". Upon hearing this, Fisk appears quite content and goes on asking the guard if he knows the Greek playwright known as Euripides. The guard replies that he does not, prompting Fisk to explain that Euripides wrote what is probably his favorite line of all time: "Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad". The guard is confused and does not know why Fisk is telling him that. Astute readers will realize that what Fisk is saying is that he intends to drive Peter Parker mad before destroying him.

ACT 3: A short time later, Peter and Mary Jane meet near Times Square where Peter informs MJ that, though they stabilized May's condition, she is not doing very good. He tells her where she is hospitalized – County Memorial – and that she will be needing money. MJ replies that she cleaned out her accounts, which should cover May for a while; however, without insurance and without telling anyone who she is, it might be difficult. Peter understands MJ’s concerns but explains that whoever pulled the trigger in the first place might come after May to finish the job if her identity is revealed. With that said, he tells MJ to go to the hospital to admit Aunt May under her maiden name, Fitzgerald, and to sign whatever paper she has to sign to "get the machine moving" (continuity error above – Aunt May's maiden name is Reilly, not Fitzgerald). When asked what he is going to do, Peter replies that he will do what he does best when he puts his mind to it and that is hurting someone.

ACT 4: Minutes later, Peter returns to their motel and heads across the street to try and find clues about who was behind the attack on his family. As he heads upstairs to the second floor, he is accosted by a cop who tells him that he is not allowed up there. Remaining silent, he webs the cop to a wall and heads inside the room where the sniper was posted earlier. Looking around, he finds part of the sniper's scope on the ground, upon which the manufacturer is identified. Taking the part with him, he exits the building and web-slings into the night.

ACT 5: A short time later, gun dealers are meeting in an abandoned warehouse when a loud crashing noise is heard overhead. Turning around to see what caused it, they come face-to-face with Peter Parker, wearing nothing but his civilian clothing, in plain view of everyone. Within seconds, guns erupt in a blaze of bullets. Channeling his rage, Peter jumps and leaps, up and down, side to side, taking down the gun dealers one by one. When all but one his left, Peter grabs hold of the "survivor" and shows him the sniper's scope part he found back in the building. Peter wants to know where it came from and he is willing to do anything to find out. When the man refuses to divulge any information, Peter breaks his hand, just like that. This is enough of an incentive for the man to open up and reveal all that he knows about it. What comes out of this is that there are only a few dealers that carry such a scope but the man does not want to tell Peter who they are, for fear of getting killed. Peter tells the man that what they do to him in a day or two is nothing compared to what he will do to him right there and then if the next words coming out of his mouth are not a first name, followed by a last name and an address. Terrified, the man agrees to tell Peter.

ACT 6: Meanwhile at County Memorial, Mary Jane meets with the doctor who treated Aunt May and he tells her that May has slipped into a coma and that the machine are keeping her alive. He explains that there is a slight possibility she may come out of her coma and start functioning again, but barring that, sooner or later, she is going to die.

ACT 7: Peter heads over to a building where he hid one of his black costumes years ago, because he felt that it sent the wrong message back then, and puts it on. He vows to find the people responsible for shooting May and when he does find them, he intends to kill them.

To be continued.