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Betty Brant, investigating Stewart Ward, wakes up Peter with a frantic phone call for help. He heads out as Spidey. detouring to a warehouse with a strange fire. There, he discovers Betty, Trapster, and the Wizard, who has created an unnatural vortex. Trapster tosses Betty into it and Spidey follows. He finds himself in a strange medieval land hounded by knights and helped by the Green Folk, a forest people. Together they storm the nearby magician's tower. Meanwhile, Wizard assures Senator Ward that the three subjects he has thrust into the vortex are proving quite valuable to their mutual project. The Wizard then enters the vortex, which destroys the warehouse, forcing Ward to flee. From his car. Ward reports to his shadowy contacts, telling them they are on the brink of a new era. In the vortex, Spidey rescues Betty in the castle. They encounter the lead knight who turns out to be a mesmerized Ranger; the Wizard's third subject. The Wizard appears and explains that this world is a hologram allowing him to test whether the improvements he made on his dimensional matrix are safe for the human body. He now uses his matrix to bring the Negative Zone to Earth; a clash of matter and anti-matter that will destroy New York as a side effect. Ranger and Spidey battle Wizard and Trapster with Spidey using a Wizard gravity disc to send the matrix transponder into the void. When the Wizard chases after it, the vortex explodes. Ranger uses a device to erase Betty's recent memories before disappearing. Elsewhere. Ward reports Wizard's failure to his contacts before proceeding to an unassuming shack, which houses the access point to the Negative Zone.