George Stacy, the injured man, was not the only one startled. Spider-Man and Green Goblin II were also badly shocked. Green Goblin II even did a backflip and leaped onto the Goblin Glider hovering behind him.
If the newcomers had walked over slowly from a distance, the three might not have reacted so strongly. But these two living people had suddenly appeared in their field of vision!
Spider-Man crouched low, placing himself in front of Police Commissioner George Stacy in an attacking stance. Even Green Goblin II controlled his Goblin Glider and extended its machine gun barrels, ready to open fire.
"Please wait." Curt Connors, restored to his one-armed human form, raised his intact hand in front of himself. "We have no intention of continuing this fight."
Flint Marko was the same. Wearing the appearance of an ordinary human, he stood to one side with a bitter expression, showing no desire to continue the confrontation. After returning from the Three-Spider Universe, neither of them had regained their original resolve like Doctor Octopus, reinstalled the Neural Inhibitor Chip, and resisted the personality influence of his mechanical tentacles. Nor had they caused havoc like Green Goblin Norman Osborn before returning to live quietly.
Whether Curt Connors or Flint Marko, both had been forcibly reverted by the three future Spider-Men working together, losing their abilities as supervillains.
Worst of all, their entrenched obsessions had not been erased. Curt Connors still lacked an arm, and Norman Osborn, who had screwed him over several times, was still alive. Flint Marko still had to worry about the cost of his daughter's surgery.
This feeling of being "abandoned" was subtle, and neither man had adjusted to it. But they truly had no intention of fighting any further. Peter Parker as Spider-Man and Harry Osborn as Green Goblin