 Grimm had refused to pilot the ship due to safety concerns, so Reed Richards hired Von Doom instead and is the main point of divergence in "Ruins" for the would-be Marvels.Sheldon decides to begin writing his book, which he will title "Marvels".However, he discovers that he has run out of the medication he has been taking; he has been infected with a virus passed on to him by Peter Parker (who had worked at the "Daily Bugle" alongside Sheldon), a virus caused by an irradiated spider that Parker himself experimented on that resulted in a highly infectious rash all over his body.