Doctor Octopus had been arrested.
That was the Daily Bugle's headline one day.
Like the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus had gone to the Three-Spider Universe and repaired the Neural Inhibitor Chip in his mechanical tentacles, regaining the rationality of a normal person. He calmly allowed himself to be bound in webbing and waited quietly with Spider-Man for the police to arrive.
The reason he had not struggled or gone on the run was simple for Doctor Otto Octavius. His wife, Rose Octavius, was still in the hospital's intensive care unit. He had someone he cared about, so he could not flee alone.
The ones who arrested Doctor Octopus were New York City police led by Commissioner George Stacy, not those Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. impersonating the FBI. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s people had been stopped by the Red Guardian—or perhaps frightened off by him. A single ambush had wiped out more than four-fifths of their personnel. Though no one had died, they had all lost the ability to act. The rest were also pinned down and unable to mount an effective counterattack.
With results like that, wiping out those agents would not have been difficult if their opponents had wanted to. But those opponents had only used tranquilizer darts, putting everyone to sleep for over two hours. Some had been hit by paralysis rounds before they fell. Pretty or not, at least they survived.
After the Red Guardian voluntarily left, the remaining agents did not think about stopping the Artificial Sun experiment as quickly as possible, nor did they try to beat the police to taking Doctor Octopus back to S.H.I.E.L.D. Their priority was ensuring their people could withdraw safely.
They gave up so decisively because the Artificial Sun experiment had been interrupted again. Furthermore, S.H.I.E.L.D. had received Spider-Man's report, and the NYPD was