[The sun was slowly setting in the distance, painting the sky in brilliant shades of orange and red. Spider-Man put on his suit inside out to hide the stubborn green paint stains and quickly began moving toward the location Ned had identified, swinging gracefully on his spider silk through the urban landscape.]
[Back at the Sanctum, Ned opened the mystical refrigerator with curiosity, took one look at the bizarre and unsettling contents stored inside, and immediately closed the door with his scalp tingling from what he'd witnessed.]
[MJ sat positioned in front of her laptop computer and kept her eyes fixed on the screen, coordinating the search effort: "Keep your attention focused on the wooded areas! We have no idea where exactly he might be hiding!"]
[Watching Spider-Man swinging from his first-person perspective through the phone camera, MJ couldn't help but complain with obvious nausea: "I honestly don't know how you can swing around like that without throwing up constantly!"]
[The sun had completely disappeared below the horizon, and the sky had transformed into deep darkness. Spider-Man swung on his webbing and gracefully landed on the ground, carefully observing the situation around his position. There was a smartphone secured to his chest, allowing MJ and Ned to see everything in front of him through the live video feed.]
[Just beside his landing spot, a subtle wave of disturbed earth passed silently through the soil. The little spider seemed to catch a glimpse of movement, but wasn't entirely certain of what he'd seen: "Did you guys see that? Something moved over there!"]
["No! It's far too dark for us to make out any details!"]
[At that moment, there was some kind of movement behind him. Spider-Man immediately spun his head around to investigate, but still saw absolutely nothing in the darkness.]
[The little spider walked through the eerily silent wilderness, feeling inexplicably frightened by the oppressive atmosphere. He couldn't help but whisper to himself to maintain his courage: "It's okay! Everything's fine! You've got this! It's okay!"]
[As he moved forward cautiously, the electrical wires on the high-voltage transmission tower behind him began flickering with bright yellow light, creating an ominous display.]
[The little spider noticed this unusual electrical activity and stopped his advance immediately.]
[Ned and MJ, watching through the camera feed, were confused and asked urgently: "What's happening? Peter? What's wrong? Did your spider-sense activate?"]
[Spider-Man remained silent, but slowly raised his arm toward the mysterious activity. A complex magic circle appeared from his enchanted wristband, activating its mystical functions as intricate magical patterns materialized across its surface.]
[At the same moment, a brilliant blue figure materialized on the high-voltage electrical wires behind him, absorbing the energy directly from the power lines.]
["Did your spider-sense trigger? Are you sensing something dangerous approaching?"]
[He didn't respond to their questions, but suddenly leaped upward to get a better view. Looking up at the transmission tower, he discovered Max Dillon in his Electro form, actively absorbing massive amounts of electrical energy.]
"What in the world is that?! Is that Max?" 2nd Gen Spider-Man sat up straight with alarm the moment he recognized the Electric Man on the screen.
"Yeah! It's definitely him, no doubt about it!" Gwen nodded with certainty. Max's appearance in the previous footage had left a lasting impression on her. His ability to transform his entire hand into pure lightning had been so devastatingly powerful that even 2nd Gen Spider-Man had extreme difficulty dodging his attacks.
"I'm afraid the 3rd Gen is going to be in serious trouble now, and there's clearly another interdimensional visitor present somewhere!" Although Spider-Man had sensed something with his spider-sense, he couldn't clearly see what was hidden in the soil.
But as outside observers, 2nd Gen Spider-Man and Gwen understood that it had to be another interdimensional intruder, though they couldn't guess the identity of this second threat.
"If those two join forces against him, the 3rd Gen's situation will become extremely difficult! I really hope he can handle this situation!" 2nd Gen Spider-Man sighed with genuine concern. In all honesty, he wasn't particularly optimistic about this version of Spider-Man's chances.
Max Dillon, who was still an ordinary person in this reality, looked at his powered-up self on the screen and touched his forehead in disbelief. For a moment, he almost thought he was experiencing some kind of hallucination.
[Spider-Man stared at the brilliant blue figure and said with growing seriousness: "Can you see this clearly now?"]
["Yeah! Is that supposed to be Osborn?"]
["No! Osborn's color scheme is green - this guy is definitely blue!"]
[After this brief exchange, Spider-Man called out to Max with authority: "Are you from another universe? Answer me!"]
[Max didn't respond to the question, which left MJ feeling confused: "What exactly is he doing up there?"]
["I honestly don't know! It looks like he's charging himself with electrical energy!"]
[MJ had an increasingly bad feeling about the situation and urged immediate action: "I don't think this is going well at all - just use the mystical webbing to transport him over here!"]
[Spider-Man didn't waste time with further discussion after hearing this advice. He fired a spider web directly at Max's position. Unexpectedly, the mystical webbing passed straight through Max's energy-based body without making contact, instead hitting a nearby tree and teleporting the entire tree into the containment cell back at the Sanctum, startling both MJ and Ned.]
[Max, sensing the attempted attack, immediately became furious. His eyes blazed with intense white light as he stared down at the little spider, then raised both hands to release devastating electrical bolts toward Spider-Man's position.]
[Spider-Man evaded the attack with a nimble backflip and landed on the roof of a small utility building behind him. Max had absolutely no intention of stopping his assault. As soon as Spider-Man touched down, a second lightning blast followed immediately.]
[The little spider had no choice but to leap up again to avoid the electrical attack, and began retreating by swinging on his spider silk. Through the phone mounted on his chest, Ned frantically shouted navigation commands: "Run to the left! Go left! Left!"]
[MJ couldn't tolerate the conflicting directions any longer and interrupted him forcefully: "What are you talking about! It's the right side! Run to the right! The right side! He means go right!"]
[Spider-Man felt frustrated by their contradictory commands and called back: "You two! Please stop giving me conflicting directions!"]
[Max's relentless and chaotic attacks were making Spider-Man increasingly frantic. He kept swinging desperately on his spider silk, but Max's movement speed through electrical transformation was significantly faster than Spider-Man's web-swinging.]
[Max directly predicted the little spider's aerial movement trajectory with tactical precision. With a brilliant flash of lightning, he instantly materialized directly in front of Spider-Man and blasted him away with a devastating electrical discharge.]
[The little spider was caught completely off guard by this maneuver and was struck directly by the full-power attack. He drew a beautiful parabolic arc through the air before crashing hard into the ground, rolling for more than ten meters before coming to rest.]
[Looking at the suddenly black screen, MJ was absolutely horrified: "Oh! NO! NO! NO! What's happening? Peter? Peter! Can you hear us?"]
[Spider-Man slowly turned over, and the smartphone on his chest had completely crashed due to electrical power overload from Max's attack.]
[Max was radiating brilliant light from his entire body, so intensely that Spider-Man couldn't keep his eyes open to look directly at him.]
[Max absorbed even more electrical energy from the nearby high-voltage power transmission tower and prepared to fire an extremely powerful electric beam directly at the vulnerable little spider.]
[Just when Spider-Man was feeling completely overwhelmed and at a loss for how to defend himself, the ground suddenly rose up dramatically to form a protective wall of earth, successfully blocking the devastating attack.]
["Whoa!!!" Spider-Man looked at this unexpected rescue in complete amazement.]
[A distinctly human face appeared in the earthen wall and addressed Spider-Man directly: "Peter! It's me! Flint Marko! Do you remember me from our previous encounters?"]
"Wait! Is that Marko?" 1st Gen Spider-Man looked at the sand-based figure and immediately recalled the subtle wave of earth movement when the little spider had first arrived at the location. It seemed that Marko had been secretly observing and following the Spider-Man from nearby.
"It appears that he has also been transported to the 3rd Gen universe, but shouldn't our world have been fundamentally changed by now? Everything else has been altered dramatically, but Marko seems to be exactly the same person we saw in the original footage."
Marko had been serving as Harry Osborn's personal driver in their current reality. They had encountered each other many times, and 1st Gen Spider-Man had never detected any special abilities or unusual powers from him.
"This version of Marko should be the one from the original timeline shown in the Sky Screen. He's mistaking the 3rd Gen for you because of the costume. After all, the suit that the 3rd Gen is wearing looks like the black Venom suit that you wore when you fought him are both predominantly black."
Otto's analysis made 1st Gen Spider-Man nod repeatedly in agreement, thinking that his observation made perfect sense given the circumstances.
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