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Issue 12
In a twist, it's revealed it's Mss. January, not Normie, who is controlling the Mech Goblin. Normie had a change of heart off-panel and got into an argument with January, which led to him being knocked unconscious. I presume it was January that gave the order to wipe out the board of directors in the previous issue as Normie says to MJ and Liz he did not want to commit any more bad deeds, but I guess it's ambiguous enough.
Peter and the X-Men battle the Mech Goblin but they are easily overpowered by the machine, which absorbs their powers. Peter tries to siphon the power with his own Regent tech, but he winds up being completly drained of his own abilities. MJ saves him, but the symbiote is caught in the line of fire and disintegrated, leaving MJ intact, but powerless, and the two smash into the window of a nearby building.
Normie and Annie team up and Annie journeys inside the Mech Goblin to take out it's pumpkin bomb-shaped energy core (this is a bit like the finale of the first season of the 1987 TMNT animated series) and they manage to bring it down. Normie and Annie patch things up and embrace, with Normie giving Peter an orb that contains all of his and the X-Men's stolen powers. MJ webs up her face to conceal her identity after losing the symbiote.
Flash forward to eight years later, and Peter and MJ give Annie her new outfit for her birthday
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