The twosome come to rest on the rooftop of a nearby building, where the May-clone asks May why she came here in the first place, as she thought the two of them would be partners from now on. As the pair swings off, May reveals that she was hoping to have a chat with the Order of the Goblin's not-so-fearless leader.

Aboard a dark sedan, a man named René calls his employer, Philippe to deliver the message that their former command center has been disposed of, leaving no trace of evidence to connect it back to them. Philippe is pleased with the results, though his main concern is finding out what happened to his daughter Élan. René informs Philippe that she was injured during a confrontation with Spider-Girl and she is currently recuperating in a private sanitarium.

Swinging through the city with May, the May-clone is frustrated that May deliberately ditched her, surmising it's because she doesn't trust her. May explains that it's mainly because she thinks it's not a good idea for two Spider-Girls to be seen together. The May-clone doesn't really like where May is going with this and informs her that, for all they know, she might be the original and May the clone. May admits that could be a possibility but points out that she has more experience being Spider-Girl. Transforming into her human/symbiote-hybrid self, the May-clone argues that she is more powerful and that she can even change her appearance; to prove the point, she colors her costume blue. Needless to say, May is not impressed with her clone's antics. Before they can continue arguing, the sound of machine guns is heard from the street down below. The twosome swing down into the mêlée, which turns out to be two gangs fighting over the same hijacked truck. They make quick work of these guys, though the May-clone comes close to killing one of them, when she takes things a bit too personally. Thankfully, May is there to talk some sense into her.

At the Black Tarantula lair, the man known as Chesbro informs his master that he's received news that someone is challenging his control of the New York underworld. Black Tarantula cannot believe it; that this is happening again. The woman known as Araña shows up in the kitchen and asks Black Tarantula how it feels to be the current kingpin of crime (she gloats in so doing). She approaches him and mentions that he should let her take him away from that life of constant crime. Black Tarantula sarcastically and rhetorically replies that he assumes she probably already picked out a nice romantic spot, somewhere his body will never be found. Araña comments that it would be quite a way to go (it is difficult telling if she actually wants to kill him). After exchanging some taunting words with Chesbro, she takes her leave. Black Tarantula wonders who is the someone that’s trying to overthrow him.

Across town, Man Mountain Marko meets up with crime lord Don Silvio. Silvio had hoped more men would have showed up, as he was once the kingpin of crime known as Silverback, the eight-hundred pound gorilla who ruled the (underworld) jungle. Marko points out that times have changed, unfortunately. Silvio concurs, showing disdain for them letting the Black Tarantula take over. Marko argues that business has been good since Black Tarantula has been crowned the kingpin of crime. Silvio tells Marko that a man must stand up for what's rightfully his, which is something both he and Wilson Fisk taught him and many others. Proceeding to stand up from his wheelchair, Silvio adds that the lesson must be repeated. Completely taken by surprise, Marko has no chance to react to the amazing backhand that Silvio delivers. As Marko gets back on his feet, Silvio tells him to tell the others that the day of the Black Tarantula are over. Taking off his robe, revealing some kind of cyborg-like exo-skeleton grafted to his body, Silvio screams that the future belongs to Silverback.

At the Parker household in Forest Hills Queens, May and the May-clone have a discussion with Peter and Mary Jane Parker about what they found, or rather didn't find, at the old headquarters of the Order of the Goblin. Peter is not pleased that they were out dealing with an exploding building and a gang war before he even had a chance to finish his first cup of coffee. May reveals that it was her idea to check out the Goblin's HQ; she thought she could get something on them before heading to school. The May-clone interrupts and asks if she gets to go to school too. Peter is not very much optimistic about the idea of having May and her clone both going to the same school but MJ – the voice of reason – tells Peter that they'll have to deal with the school issue sooner or later. She adds that they need a new name for the May-clone. The May-clone tells them that the identical thing won't be a problem, seeing as she can change her appearance at will, thanks to her symbiote half – she demonstrates this by changing her hairstyle. MJ likes that option and tries to come up with ideas for names for the May-clone. Peter cannot believe she is going along with this. MJ argues that they have to come up with a cover story for the May-clone. Realizing he is outvoted, Peter tells them all that they'll have a family meeting later that night when everyone gets home. He grabs baby Ben out of his high chair and takes his leave. May starts wondering if perhaps she was wrong to try and push the May-clone into their family.

The next morning, at Midtown High, we find our heroine May surrounded by her school friends, Davida, Moose (very absent-minded and almost drone-like), Courtney, Jimmy and Heather. Davida tells May she's glad that she's finally back, after missing a few days because of the flu (MJ made up that lie to cover her daughter's secret identity). Davida goes on asking May if she is ready to get back into the dating game. May replies that she is, prompting Courtney to indicate that they've found a guy for her. On cue, they run into Wes, a cute boy who May seems to like. Davida asks Wes if he wants to join them later that night to celebrate May's return. Wes accepts the invitation and, talking to May, tells her that he's glad she's back and that she looks good. Needless to say, May blushes from head to toe. Then, coincidently, it just so happens that Davida, Moose, Courtney, Jimmy and Heater all realize at the same time that they cannot make it to Café Indigo later that night, so it’ll just be May and Wes. Just then, May's spider-sense starts buzzing. What comes next shocks the hell out of her.

Meet cousin April Parker, a.k.a. the May-clone, the newest student at Midtown High. May's friend are stunned too, as they were not aware of May having a cousin and thought her father, Peter, was an only child. Just then, MJ shows up, wondering what is going on. May subtly explains about cousin April, who tells her "aunt" MJ that she arrived early and remembered she worked at May's school, so she came over to surprise the two of them. Surprise is evidently an understatement. MJ grabs hold of April's arm and tells her to come with her so she can have her fill the necessary paperwork to get her admitted into the school. Just then, the bell rings, signifying that it's time to go to class. May stands there, completely flabbergasted. The whole thing is turning into a nightmare, she thinks. In a sense, May can understand that everything is new to the May-clone, especially since she grew up in a test tube, but she doesn't want her to take over everything.

The man named René, seen earlier, is calling one of his men at Élan's side, to check up on her, as he was told she regained consciousness earlier. The man tells his boss that she didn't like the accommodations and took off. René bellows angrily.

Later that night at the Parker household, Peter is furious with "April" taking it upon herself to give herself a new name and story without consulting with them first, or at least waiting for them to have a family meeting. April argue that no one asked for her opinion. Peter tells April that if it weren't for May and MJ convincing him to let her stay, she wouldn't have a roof over her head. Taunting Peter, April asks if she is to call him Uncle Pete or just Peter. Before Peter can give her an answer, MJ steps in and asks May to take April with her so she can have a few words with Peter. After the girls leave, MJ turn to Peter and tells him that April is their responsibility – whether he likes it or not – and she knows how he feels about responsibility. Peter realizes that there is no point arguing with MJ and tells his wife that April can stay as long as there are no more surprises. Just then, the doorbell rings. When they open the door, they are completely flabbergasted to see a girl bearing an uncanny resemblance to the late Gwen Stacy. Before Peter and/or MJ can even utter a word, the girl introduces herself to them as Gwen Reilly, daughter of Ben Reilly.

After a few moments of complete dead silence, due to their being completely shocked, they invite Gwen in. She explains that her parents split up just before she was born and that her father used to write to her from the road and for a few months after he came to New York to see Peter. Gwen goes on saying that she was too young to read so her mother stowed the letters away for her. Her mother unfortunately passed away a few months earlier and she – Gwen – found the letters among her mom's papers. She has a good guess why he stopped writing – he died. She asks Peter and MJ if they could take her to see his grave. Watching from a distance, May thinks Gwen sounds genuine but her story feels a little too rehearsed – Peter seems to echo his daughter's premonition. As Gwen prepares to leave, May hands her coat to her, slipping a spider-tracer in the coat's pocket. As Gwen exits the house, she turns around and tells Peter that she understands quite well why her father loved him so much.

Seconds later, after returning inside, MJ asks Peter if he believes her to be the real deal. Peter replies that he highly doubts it; he believes Ben would have told him about her, especially if he was writing her. He also thinks it's more than a coincidence that someone is bringing up Ben Reilly right after a clone's moved in with them. Having said that, Peter grabs a plastic bag and the cup from which Gwen was drinking. He puts the cup in the bag and indicates that he's going to run Gwen's print to find out who she is. He turns to tell his daughter to go out patrolling and keep an eye on Gwen, but May and April are already gone.

Following the signal from the spider-tracer inside Gwen's coat, the two Spider-Girls swing across the city landscape. As she tracks Gwen's movement with her portable device, May suddenly realizes she was supposed to meet Wes at Café Indigo. Just then, the sound of gunshots is heard coming from the streets down below. April asks May if she wants her to handle it. Tossing the tracking device to April, May replies that she'll take care of it and instructs April to find out where Gwen goes and whom she meets. Having said that, she swings in the direction of the gunfire.

She arrives there to find two rival gangs shooting at each other. Within minutes, she's cleaned up the scene and back up swinging after her clone. As she ponders what to tell Wes when she sees him at school the following day, she hears a shrieking scream coming from nearby. She swings down to investigate and makes the gruesome discovery of Gwen Reilly lying dead in an alley, April standing above her.

To be continued.

REVIEW: At the Coffee Bean, Peter Parker is perusing the DB classified, in search of a job to make ends meet and pay rent. In comes Carlie Cooper who brings him the good news that she's scored him an interview with her boss as a crime scene photographer. Peter is interested in the offer so, after stopping by his place to pick up some examples of his work, they head over to Carlie's precinct.

Looking at the pictures Peter brought in, Carlie's boss is not all that impress; the pictures might be fine for a gossip magazine or a newspaper, but taking pictures of crime scenes is entirely different. He needs someone who can look past the bright colors and flashy poses to find the little details. Carlie speaks up and tells her boss that Peter is very good and has plenty of range. He replies that his pictures don't do him justice and wonders if the job is right for him. Realizing that the whole thing is a bust, Peter starts packing his stuff and prepares to leave but the boss goes on telling Peter that he's willing to give him a chance to prove him wrong, since Carlie is vouching for him. Peter is thankful that strong references can go a long way.

Soon, Peter gets to work on his first case. When asked by Carlie if he's prepared, Peter explains that he's been following the TV show CSI for years, so he's ready. Carlie reminds him that the show is fictional and that real crimes take a lot more time to be solved. Because of his vast knowledge of crimes – having thwarted many of them as Spider-Man – Peter starts solving cases before any evidence is collected and/or analyzed. This starts to get on Carlie's nerves so at the next crime scene, she puts him in his place when he oversteps his boundaries again. Peter genuinely feels bad for acting like that, though he thinks he has a knack for investigative work. As he goes around the crime scene, photographing evidence, his spider-sense suddenly kicks in. Pinpointing the source for his spider-sense's buzzing, he finds a secret room hidden behind a bookshelf. Inside said room are dozens of vials marked as containing mutant growth hormone and animal DNA samples, drugs that are definitely not for the street trade, as far as Peter knows. He rushes out of the hidden room and proceeds to find Carlie to tell her what he's found and whom he thinks is behind it all. Carlie doesn't even give him a chance to say more, as she's had enough of him butting in on everything. She regrets mixing friendship and work, as one of them always ends up suffering, and she is not about to let her job pay the price.

Later that night, Carlie finds Peter waiting for her at the precinct. Peter proceeds to apologize to her for overstepping his boundaries earlier (and before that). Carlie replies that she shouldn't have snapped at him like she did, as he was – after all – only trying to help. Carlie goes on saying that she tries very hard to be the best at her job and sometimes the job ends up getting the best of her instead. Peter tells Carlie that she is the best and surmises she already figured out who was running the drug lab. Carlie replies that they did and prepares to reveal who it was but Peter keeps interrupting her. Finally, Carlie gets her change to explain that it was the Karnelli crime family, as evidenced by fingerprints and hair samples. Peter has a hard time believing that, as those types of drugs is not something the mob would normally sell on the streets. Carlie indicates that there are a lot of bad people out there doing terrible things and only a few of them have powers and wear capes. Peter understands and tells Carlie that he's glad to be working alongside one of the good guys. Unfortunately for Peter, that won't happen because the boss decided not to give him the open position. Carlie is sorry but Peter is okay with it, seeing as mixing friendship and work just don't go well together. Carlie agrees and invites Peter to grab a cup of coffee.

The end...for now.

REVIEW: The story opens with female villain Screwball, taping another one of her live Internet shows. She asks the audience which place she should rob next and, as she ponders what to answer (for them), her cameraman indicates that someone is trying to tap into their signal. On cue, another Z-list villain, named the Mad Hacker appears through her video feed and issues her a challenge: a treasure hunt across three locations in an hour – each one giving her the location of the next. If she makes it to the finish line within and hour, she wins; if she fails though, a little boy named James falls off to his death when the rope, holding the platform on which he sits, snaps. Having said that, the Mad Hacker tells Screwball that her first target is the roof of the First National Bank. Wasting no time, Screwball takes off in that direction, followed by her camera crew(s).

When Screwball approaches the bank, her crew notifies her that there is a robbery presently taking place at the blank and an anonymous tip has named her as the ringleader. As she rounds the corner and is spotted by the police, she is immediately shot at. She dodges the bullets – using her Parkour moves – and returns to the rooftop of the bank, where she finds the Mad Hacker's next clue. That's not the only thing she finds; Spider-Man is there too and, though he tries to stop her, she manages to slip through his webbing and escape.

Spider-Man finds a guy watching Screwball's live Internet feed and asks if she really is being set up. The guy replies that she is and shows him footage of Screwball running away from a barrage of bullets.

In real-time, Screwball is surrounded by policemen, as she makes her way through them to secure the second clue. But, just as she gets to said second clue, a lone police officer shows up out of nowhere and draws his weapon straight at her. Just then, Spidey shows up and snags Screwball with a web-line, pulling her away from the cop. As they swing away from the scene, Screwball reveals the location given by the clue she just picked up – it's the old Maxell's building on the East Side. She tells Spidey they have only ten minutes to get there and wonders if they can make it there in time. Before Spidey can complete his answer to her question, a police chopper swoops down in their path and opens fire. Spidey swings them out of harm's way and, in so doing, thinks of a way to get to the Maxell's building quicker. Without alerting the chopper crew, Spidey webs himself and Screwball to the underside of the vehicle, which is making its way to the next and final location of the Mad Hacker's devious plan.

When they reach the final destination, they have but a minute to spare. The Mad Hacker speaks to them via a laptop computer (with web cam), telling her she's done well. However, he points out that she didn’t do it alone, as she got help from Spider-Man. As such, this means the contest is null and void. Having said that, the Mad Hacker detonates small bombs that send the young boy plummeting toward certain death. Thankfully, Spidey dives after the boy and rescues him easily. When he and the boy return on the rooftop of the Maxell's building, Screwball is gone, having left a note for Spidey, thanking him for his help and telling him that the police wouldn't believe her so she decided not to stick around. Spidey realizes that Screwball had that note prepared, as she knew that he would help her out. In other words, she set the whole thing up.

When Screwball returns to her headquarters, she gets in the face of one of her crewmembers, who engineered the whole Mad Hacker scheme. Though she had told her crew to make it more real, she did not have explosives in mind, nor using her cousin's son. After punching the man responsible for the whole thing, she tells him that he's just forfeited his pay to give it to the kid and reminds him to never screw with her script ever again. Another crewmember interrupts her and informs her that they've made so much money from online payments and advertising that it makes up for all the fake robberies from the day. It seems that everyone wanted to know if Screwball and Spider-Man were going to save little Jimmy. Screwball replies that that's because her public loves her. She goes on saying that what she did with Spider-Man was an incredible rush and ponders if perhaps she is in the wrong profession.

The end...for now.

REVIEW: The infamous Hay Monger is hijacking another shipment of hay from the city's reserves when none other than the sensational Swiney-Girl swoops down on the scene, confronting him. The Hay Monger retaliates by firing burning hay at her, which she dodges rather easily. Nearby, Daily Beagle staffers Upton and Bunsen realize they have a chance to get a scoop for the paper. The battle rages on between Swiney-Girl and the Hay Monger until he manages to escape via the sewer tunnels, using a hay storm to cover his escape. She could chase after him but doesn't want her parents finding out that she's secretly playing super hero. She heads home instead. Upton and Benson, see Swiney-Girl swing away and wonders what she was doing there in the first place.

A short time later, at the Daily Beagle, Upton and Benson meet with their boss, J. Jeremiah to discuss what they've just witnessed. J. Jeremiah believes Swiney-Girl was in league with the Hay Monger, despite having no proof to back that up. Peter Porker, the Beagle's editor, points out that they cannot accuse Swiney-Girl without knowing all the facts. J. Jeremiah replies that, as his uncle J. Jonah Jackal used to say: "truth is for sissies – our job is to sell newspapers!".

When Peter returns home, he has a talk with his daughter about her secret web-swinging adventures – he doesn’t like it one bit. May comments that she has to do something, as everybody thinks she's in league with the Hay Monger. Peter decides there and then that it's a job for the spectacular Spider-Ham – secretly Peter's alter-ego – and he's going to track the Hay Monger down and force him to come clean. May wants to go with him so Peter allows her to come, as long as she doesn't tell her mother. After charging up his prosthetic foot, which is lost in a battle with the original Green Gobler, he takes to the sky with his daughter.

Swinging through the city, Peter indicates to his daughter that if he were the Hay Monger and wanted to create a hay shortage, he would cut the supply off at its source and target Happy Hoag, the lead supplier of hay. When they arrive at destination, they soon spot the Hay Monger. Coincidently, nearby, Upton and Benson arrive to interview Happy Hoag about his take on the Hay Monger. They are hoping to find a way to clear Swiney-Girl. They can't believe J. Jeremiah is trying to pin the whole thing on her. Just then, the two of them spot Swiney-Girl and Spider-Ham attacking the Hay Monger. The battle is dangerous, with flaming hay being tossed in all directions by the Hay Monger. Upton and Benson cannot believe their luck; they cannot wait to use the pictures to force J. Jeremiah to print a retraction. The battle seems lost for the web-slingers, when the Hay Monger prepares to unleash a devastating hurricane-force hay storm. Fortunately, Swiney-Girl saves the day, causing the Hay Monger to be defeated by his own weapon. Wanting to know the identity of the Hay Monger, Swiney-Girl removes his mask, revealing the man to be Sorrowful Sow, Happy Hoag's evil twin brother. It turns out that Sow loves hay whereas his brother just exploits it, which is what led him to become the Hay Monger.

Upton and Benson come out of hiding and tell Swiney-Girl that they have pictures that will clear her name, and let the world know she is a true web-swinging wonder. Father and daughter swing into the horizon.

The end...for now.