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Alistair Smythe, augmented with robotic parts and calling himself 'The Ultimate Spider-Slayer," chides his fellow sanitarium escapees, now his prisoners, and murders Max Young for failing to destroy Spider-Man. Peter and Felicia spot Shaddock abducting Mary and Richard at gunpoint. They follow as Spidey and the Cat, destroying 14 Optikoids along the way. As they approach a construction site, a black widow robot attacks, followed by a tarantula and scorpion.The three eventually merge, but the Cat shreds their insulation and Spidey fries them with an electrical power line. Slightly injured, Cat stays behind while Spidey tracks Shaddock to an old meat processing plant, and changes to Peter to avoid more spider-slayers. While Peter spies from the rafters, Shaddock reveals that he was an agent of the Albert Malik Red Skull, assigned as an FBI deep-cover mole when Richard and Mary were spying. A beam breaks and Peter falls onto a conveyer belt. Stunned by contact with freon gas, Peter is motionless as Shaddock starts up the belt and fires up the rendering furnace.