ACT 1: The year is 2211. New York City has been destroyed, forcing people to rebuild the city under the Earth's surface. At the subterranean Empire State University, young scientist Robin Borne and professor Lar Nyven are discussing parallel universes. Robin explains that she studied the last two hundred years and discovered that parallel universes have been intersecting each other. By charting the impact those intersecting points have had on their timeline, she has identified an exponential increase, meaning that there is a possibility that one of the "bigger" universes might eventually swallow their reality whole, possibly obliterating it, unless they prevent it. Nyven grabs hold of Robin by the shoulders and tells her that she is starting to sound like her father, who is apparently involved in time travel. She snubs his accusations and he reminds her that they were talking about going away on vacation until she got caught up in all of this. She comments that he is feeling neglected and proceeds to kiss him. Just then, Spider-Man 2211 appears and tells Robin, who happens to be his daughter, that she has to come with him. Robin asks what is going on and why he is wearing his official "uniform". Spidey-2211 replies that he is on official business and suggests she doesn't make this more difficult than it is. She starts to laugh and sarcastically asks if he is arresting her. Nyven comments that she hasn't done anything wrong to which Spidey-2211 replies that she has indeed not done anything wrong yet, but that she will. Having said that, he explains that he has undisputable evidence (unauthorized parallel world travel, chronal disruption, and murder) that she is going to build a suit that will allow her to jump tracks and rework the universe in her image. Consequently, the equipment that she is building has to be destroyed and she has to be zoned for thirty years until the window of temporal opportunity has closed. Nyven cannot believe that Spidey-2211 is doing that to his own daughter but Robin is not surprised. She accuses her father of trying to steal her research, her life, because that is what military types like him do. Nyven is taken aback by what she is saying and asks her to give up the suit to prove that she is not a threat and so that she is not zoned. Robin refuses to give up the suit, deeming it more important than her life with him (Nyven), and because she feels that her work is going to save everything and make her father proud. Spidey-2211 tells his daughter that he has always been proud of her but he still has to put her away, though he does not like it. In a move that can only be described as foolish and desperate, Nyven throws himself at Spidey-2211 and yells at Robin to "run". Robin takes off running but only makes it to the door before being caught in her fathe's guided webbing, a which point she professes her hate towards him.

ACT 2: Robin is lying in the grass outside a farmhouse and she seems to be really happy. She heads back towards the house and when she reaches it, she comes face-to-face with Lar Nyven, though she has absolutely no idea who he is and has no recollection of ever having seen him before. Nyven explains to her that the world she is currently living in is not real and that her body was put into stasis (after the earlier incident) while fake memories are being fed into her brain through a computer. Robin has a difficult time believing Nyven until he asks if she remembers anything about her life before ending up on the farm and she is unable to answer. Nyven then explains that he is there to get her out and that, after he is pulled out of the system, into which he inserted himself in the first place, a nanovirus of his design will be released into the computer core causing her and possibly a number of other people in the zone to be put back into reality. In short, the virus will shut down the defensive grid, allowing her to escape. As he starts to disappear from the zone, Nyven tells Robin that he has downloaded into her brain a secure location where she is to meet him after she escapes. Seconds later, Robin suffers some kind of hallucination involving her father – Spider-Man 2211 – then she comes bursting out through the lid of her stasis pod. Immediately, she is surrounded by a group of security guards holding what look like light-sabres. With the assistance of the other people released from their pods, she makes her way out of the building.

ACT 3: Spider-Man 2211 is totally ticked off at Nyven and slams him into a wall. Spidey-2211 tells Nyven that the nanovirus he introduced into the system drove all of the zone's inhabitants insane, causing them to unleash staggering levels of physical ability, like something ten times more powerful than the most potent drugs in existence. Nyven comments that it is rather ironic that he – Spidey-2211 – could see Robin's crimes coming, yet he was unable to see what he (Nyven) was going to do to help her. Spidey-2211 replies that they "chart the ripples, not the stones that created them" and asks Nyven why he did it. Nyven replies that he did so because he loves her. Spidey-2211 retorts that he loves her too but Nyven exclaims that what he – Spidey-2211 – loves is his mask, his costume, his powers and his job and that he only loved Robin right up until she became her own person and he could no longer control her, which is why he locked her up. Infuriated, Spidey-2211 throws Nyven across the room and tells him that he could kill him right there and then, because he has the authority to do so. But Spidey-2211 is not going to kill him because he is not the monster Nyven thinks he is. Nyven replies that he does not think him to be a monster, just a lousy father. Just then, a voice is heard, which startles both Nyven and Spidey-2211. Robin – though she remains unseen by the reader – thanks Nyven for sticking up for her then turns her attention to her father, who asks her where she hid her armour in the first place. Robin reveals that she hid it in what she called a "temporal fold" so it would always exist ten seconds in the future. Having said that, she proceeds to throw some kind of glowing grenade at him. Spidey-2211 dodges the grenade, which hits Nyven in the stomach. Though the grenade explodes on impact, it does not immediately harm Nyven. Suddenly, however, Nyven appears to explode in a burst of light and disappears into thin air. Taken aback, Spidey-2211 asks her what she did to him, to which she replies that she used a retcon bomb, which creates a radioactive dimensional warp that catapults its target out of existence. She goes on explaining that Nyven not only does not exist anymore, he never did. Spidey-2211 comments that he still remembers Nyven but Robin explains that he soon will not remember him. Confused, Spidey-2211 comments that if Nyven never existed, she never would have been released, which implies uncontrolled paradox. Finally, Robin is shown to the reader in her armour and it is revealed that she is the Hobgoblin of the year 2211. She taunts her father with the fact that she is planning to superimpose he own reality over that of every other universe so that no one anywhere remembers Spider-Man. Having heard enough, Spidey-2211 throws herself at her.

ACT 4: A short time later, at the headquarters of the military organization that employs him, Spidey-2211 is discussing what happened after he attacked his daughter as the Hobgoblin. He is furious because he was unable to predict that she was going to use her powers and disappear just as he was about to tackle her. Suddenly, one of the other military men interrupts and informs him that they have a lock on her latest location, and it's not looking good. According to him, Robin is in the year 2006 and is facing off against that year's Spider-Man. Spidey-2211 comments that it is her typical MO; that is, to fight earlier versions of himself. The military man goes on telling Spidey-2211 that she has also derailed an alternate Ben Parker. Completely caught off guard, Spidey-2211 asks the man to show him the track from where the alternate Ben Parker was derailed and the status of the Spider-Man's track directly following his disappearance, so as to give him an idea of the impact it had. The man shows him the Spider-Man’s track twenty years after his Uncle Ben vanished and it is not looking good. In it, Spider-Man has transformed into a spider-creature and has killed other superheroes. Seeing this, Spidey-2211 asks to be sent to the year 2006 to fix everything and hopefully stop his daughter.

ACT 5: Spider-Man of the year 2006 has just met the alternate Ben Parker when they are confronted by the Hobgoblin of 2211. Spidey remembers the Hobgoblin, having previously met her during some kind of time anomaly that also involved the Spider-Man from 2099, and asks what she is doing in 2006 (while commenting on how much smoke is spurting out of her glider). She replies that she is given him his heart's desire: his Uncle Ben; and this time he is not a ghost for a mere five minutes, he is the real thing (Spidey met the ghost of Uncle Ben in the now classic Amazing Spider-Man #500). Spidey asks how she knows about that time with Uncle Ben and she replies that she has read his entire life's story, which has been published over a period of decades and serialized in a gaudy illustrated format. She goes on explaining that she usually researches her victims before confronting them. Then, making reference to the earlier comment he made at the expense of the smoke coming out of her glider, she explains that the smoke is actually a living vapour infested with sophisticated biospores that allow her to control mechanical components. As such, she is now able to control his costume and she proceeds to make Spider-Man hit himself with his own fist, over and over again, until he falls to his knees, feeling woozy. Just then, Uncle Ben comes in between her and Spidey and tells her to stop. The Hobgoblin just zooms past him, ensnares Spidey with some kind of metal coil, and takes off with him. As she flies off, she tells Uncle Ben to get acquainted with you-know-who. Uncle Ben wonders what she is talking about, until the turns around and comes face-to-face with Aunt May. "Well. This is awkward" are the last words he speaks, as the issue concludes.

To be continued.