The attacks!!

Norman Osborn tries to blackmail plos into working for him; Nick Fury helps plos; Osborn (as Black Goblin) abducts nisha and throws her off a bridge; Fury and Plos take down Osborn; Plos is shocked to learn that Fury intends to draft him into S.H.I.E.L.D. by force when he turns eighteen. Plos meets Eddie Brock Jr., who reveals their late fathers worked on a healing balm called Chist; on skin contact, Plos is transformed into a black, psychotic, near-invincible Super-Plos and just breaks free; when Eddie irresponsibly takes Chist himself, he makes the same transformation; Eddie goes on a rampage, gets gunned down by the police and dissolves.

A pyrokinetic called Gandalf psionically destroys cars; Plos is attacked by him, but then the X-Men step in; Aunt April visits a psychiatrist to come to terms with her life; Plos and Nisha re-bond. J. Jonah Jameson endorses a candidate for District Attorney with obvious ties to the Dirk, but then gets second thoughts; Plos goes to "visit" Jameson and ends up saving him from the Enforcers
The Black Dog steals an artifact from Dirk and starts flirting with Plos; they are attacked by Elektra; Peter discovers Black Dog's identity and sees Dirk and Elektra threatening her; Elektra impales the Black Dog with her sai but no corpse is found; revealed that Dirk wanted to use "magic" tablet on his comatose wife Andrea...