While Red Guardian and S.H.I.E.L.D. put on their grand show outside, the battle inside the abandoned shipyard was equally fierce.
Because he was waiting for FBI support, Spider-Man had yet to learn that the FBI agents he encountered were actually Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in disguise, so he had remained hidden and had not acted.
It was not until the Artificial Sun was ignited again and the FBI still failed to arrive that Spider-Man finally could not hold back any longer.
Spider-Man did not know that the first Artificial Sun experiment had gone out of control because Norman Osborn had bribed Doctor Otto Octavius's research assistant to tamper with the control program.
And because Henry had only said that the original control program's parameters had been altered, Doctor Octopus was still using the same program, merely restoring its parameters to the results he had calculated.
Logically speaking, this Artificial Sun experiment had a chance of succeeding. But Spider-Man had witnessed the first failure and instinctively believed that this one would fail as well.
Moreover, using more Tritium would bring even greater danger. So he intended to stop it and hand Doctor Octopus over to the police... or the FBI. In truth, neither of them was wrong. Their miscalculation lay in the fact that Doctor Octopus's control program did not merely have altered parameters; its stability was also terrible.
A Kryptonian's Super Brain, running at full power, might have discovered flaws in the program's operation. But Henry had been distracted by other matters at the time and had never studied what kind of harmful effects that mountain of spaghetti code would bring.
As a result, the Artificial Sun in the second experiment displayed the same symptoms as it had during the first. Solar prominences from the Artificial Sun battered the Atomic Resonance