I'm three days away from you finding me running around Times Square in nothing but my web-shooters and my mask whooping it up about power and responsibility. 
Appearing in "Book Three"
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story and flashback)
- Black Widow (Natasha Romanov) (Only in flashback)
- Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Main story and flashback)
- Luke Cage (Main story and flashback)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Only in flashback)
- Daisy Johnson (Only in flashback)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Main story and flashback)
- Nick Fury (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Latverian soldiers (Only in flashback)
- Scorcher (Jamal Hudak)
- Diamondback (Debbie Bertrand) (First appearance)
- Hobgoblin (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Lady Octopus (Carolyn Trainer) (Main story and flashback)
- Trapster (Peter Petruski)
- Mentallo (Marvin Flumm)
- Grim Reaper (Eric Williams)
- King Cobra (Klaus Voorhees) (Shadow only)
- Goldbug (Jackson Smith) (Shadow only)
- Scorpion (Mac Gargan)
- Boomerang (Fred Myers) (Shadow only)
- Eel (Ed Lavell) (Shadow only)
- Crimson Dynamo (First appearance)
- Spider-Slayer Mark XX (First appearance) (Shadow only)
- Shocker (Herman Schultz)
- Wizard (Bentley Whitman)
- Mister Fear (Alan Fagan)
- Constrictor (Franklin Schlichting)
- Crossfire (William Cross)
Other Characters:
- Unnamed civilians
- Luke Cage's and Jessica Jones' unborn child (Mentioned)
- Venom (Eddie Brock) (Mentioned)
- Carnage (Cletus Kasady) (Mentioned)
- Ben Reilly (Mentioned)
- The Rocketeer (Mentioned)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Mentioned)
- Tony Stark (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Mutants (Main story and flashback)
- Human-Inhuman Hybrids (Only in flashback)
- Cyborgs
- Robots
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Europe (Only in flashback)
- Latveria (Only in flashback)
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Unidentified restaurant
- Peter Parker's Apartment
- Harlem
- East Harlem
- Inbetween Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue
- East Harlem
- Midtown
- Hell's Kitchen
- Matt Murdock's Apartment (Destruction)
- Baxter Building (Mentioned)
- Times Square (Mentioned)
- Avengers Mansion (Mentioned)
- Hell's Kitchen
- Brooklyn
- Manhattan
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Europe (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Doctor Octopus' Tentacles (Main story and flashback)
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters (Main story and flashback)
- Daredevil's Suit and Billy Club (Only in flashback)
- Black Widow's Gauntlets (Only in flashback)
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield (Main story and flashback)
- Quake's Gauntlets (Only in flashback)
- Crimson Dynamo Armor Mark IV-X (Main story and flashback)
- Shocker's Vibro-Shock Gauntlets (Main story and flashback)
- Constrictor's Battlesuit (Main story and flashback)
- Scorcher's Armor
- Goblin Armor (Main story and flashback)
- Pumpkin Bombs (Main story and flashback)
- Wizard Armor and Wonder Gloves
- Grim Reaper's Scythe
Vehicles:
- Goblin Glider (Main story and flashback)
- Spider-Mobile (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Book Three"
During his and Mary Jane's anniversary dinner, Peter Parker experiences vivid memories of a vicious battle in Latveria. Later that night, he wakes from a nightmare of the same battle, and dons his Spider-Man costume.
At Mt. Sinai Hospital, Fury orders Steve Rogers outside, but Steve tells Jessica to "get away from here" and "keep your baby safe" before instructing Rand to prepare to move Cage because "too many people have seen him." Jessica steps into the lobby to call Matt Murdock.
In Hell's Kitchen, Daredevil returns home to find Spider-Man in his apartment, and Parker explains that he is seeing "images" "like a dream" of a battle in Latveria involving himself, Murdock, Luke Cage, Black Widow, Wolverine and Captain America, even though he knows that no such battle ever happened. Murdock insists that he is having no such experiences, and the two listen to a message that Jessica left for Murdock about Luke Cage ending up comatose in the hospital.
Daredevil and Spider-Man set out for Mt. Sinai, but they are attacked by Diamondback and Scorcher. The criminals discuss an impending attack moments before Daredevil attacks Diamondback while Spider-Man battles Scorcher. The criminals flee the scene, and Murdock tells Parker that they have to get to the hospital because "something's going on."
Outside the hospital, Rogers explains to Fury that he was ambushed on his way home to his civilian life by Lady Octopus and the Hobgoblin. Daredevil and Spider-Man arrive moments later and describe the attack on Murdock's home, and Rogers admits that exactly one year has passed since the team's "secret war." Daredevil interrupts the conversation to warn them that they have to move and suggests that Fury and Rogers call for backup, and moments later, the hospital comes under attack by a battalion of technology-themed supervillains including Lady Octopus, Hobgoblin, Scorcher, Eel, Trapster, Boomerang, Wizard, Goldbug, Spider-Slayer, Grim Reaper, Crimson Dynamo, Constrictor, Mentallo, Scorpion, King Cobra, Shocker, and Mister Fear.
Notes
- Pages 6-7 of this issue correspond to page 12 of The Pulse #6, while pages 10-11 match up to the message left by Jessica on page 13 of Pulse #6, and page 20 of SW #3 corresponds to page 18 of Pulse #6.
- Peter and MJ Parker are dining together to celebrate their anniversary. They were married in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 but their wedding was later erased from reality in Amazing Spider-Man #545.
- The transcript of Steve Rogers' call to SHIELD is dated 11.43 pm on 6/12/05, but the attack on him is mentioned in an email from Kat Farrell to Joseph Robertson dated 5.27 pm on 12 February 2004 in Secret War: From the Files of Nick Fury #1. Events in the present day take place a year after the Secret War, which Nick Fury initiated two months after SHIELD first started investigating who was bankrolling the Tinkerer. SHIELD first learned that the Tinkerer had a backer from an interrogation of Jack O'Lantern on 4/5/2003 according to Secret War #1. This would suggest that the current date is June 2004.