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Simultaneously looking at the radioactive spider descending on his past self and his future self confronting the police, Spidey realizes he is seeing both his beginning and end. The middle-aged Spidey, aware that his counterpart is there, tells him he has a son named Ben and that "MJ never stopped loving us." Then he attacks the police until gunned down. Turning to his past, Spidey considers preventing the spider bite but can't bring himself to do it. Dr. Strange contacts him, telling him he has gone too far down the timeline and must journey through his past. Strange sends the Spell of Becoming and instructs him to follow his voice so that he can arrive in the moment before Mr. Fantastic accidentally allows Dormammu entrance to Earth. Moving through his life, Spidey re-experiences many of his battles and crises until faced again with Gwen Stacy's death. Overcoming despair, he forces his way through the rest of his history until returning to the fight with the Mindless Ones. There, Spidey convinces Mr. Fantastic to wait until Dr. Strange arrives. Strange returns the Mindless Ones to their dimension, then gives Spidey a golden box he found in his pocket at battle's end. Remembering it's his birthday, Spidey takes the box and departs. Soon after, Baron Mordo captures Strange. After celebrating his birthday with MJ and May, Peter opens the box and is visited by Uncle Ben, plucked from the instant of his death, who tells him being happy is all that matters and that he loves him, before fading away. Peter, who is happy despite his traumatic life, returns to MJ. She wishes the birthday boy "goodnight."