Attack
“Is that smoke?” Eddie asks suddenly, glancing around the apartment, and sniffing the air.
“The Tots!” You exclaim, causing both Eddie and you to jump.
You rush around the counter top, and without thinking open the mini-oven with your bare hands, grabbing the two trays within. You flinch at the heat as the trays burn your hands, and spin around to deposit them on the counter. Sentinel growls at your pain.
“Your hands!” Eddie exclaims, rushing towards you and turning your palms towards him. The skin is an angry red, with blisters already forming.
“Why did you do that?!” Eddie scolds, dragging you to the sink and pushing your hands under Ice cold water. You flinch at the sensation on your sensitive skin.
“Let me.” Sentinel says, their voice laced with concern. You watch as Sentinel flows out over your forearms and covers your hands in their body, like gloves. Every part that they touch instantly stops hurting, and you sigh in relief. After about a minute they slowly recede from your hands, but to your surprise instead of disappearing completely, two blue-black bands with veins of silver remain around your wrists, looking vaguely like odd bracelets or two identical tattoos.
“Wow.” Eddie breathes next to you as he looks at your completely healed hands.
“Senti?” You question, your thoughts turned to the two bands.
“This way we can protect you, so you don’t hurt yourself again.” Sentinel explains, pride in their voice. Before you can blink the gloves are back over your hands. An idea forms in your head.
“Can you make it look different?” You ask, pushing an image towards Sentinel’s consciousness in your mind. You watch as the gloves become smooth, and the silver veins move to become seams. There’s almost no difference between real, thin gloves and Sentinel.
“It’s perfect!” You exclaim, spinning to face Sentinel. You grab their head in your still gloved hands and pull their forehead against your own, smiling. Sentinel purrs under the affection, the noise an audible sound.
Eddie tries to stifle a laugh, but fails as his laughter fills the apartment.
You and Sentinel both turn to look at him as he doubles over in laughter.
Suddenly, however, his body freezes and goes rigid.
“Eddie?” You ask cautiously, reaching out towards him. You look into his eyes, and realize with shock that black and silver is flowing through them.
“Don’t open the door.” The voice is foreign, and rather deep as it flows out of Eddie’s mouth. His body suddenly relaxes and Eddie almost stumbles.
“What the Hell?!” Eddie exclaims, his voice filled with shock.
“Don’t open the door?” You wonder.
However, as soon as you finish speaking the doorbell sounds throughout the apartment. You and Eddie stare at each other, silently coming to an agreement. Eddie moves to stand to the side of the door. With a nod from him to you you take a peek through the lens, but see no one on the other side. You can feel as sentinel merges back into you, but you also realize they are incredibly tense inside you, ready to leap out and protect you at a moment’s notice. Cautiously you turn the door knob and open the door. The second you do, multiple men force their way into the apartment, shoving you backwards. They are armed with guns pointing at your chest. However, as they rush into the apartment they fail to notice Eddie standing off to the side. You quickly glance at his face, trying to project Wait through your eyes. Eddie nods.
“Hey there.” One of the men says. His face is covered in a mask. “We’re going to need you to come with us.”
“And what if I don’t want to?” You ask, forcing your face into a confident expression.
“Then you’ll make this harder than you need to.” The man says, as multiple lasers move onto your chest.
“Trust me, you don’t want to do this.” You tell them, as you feel more and more anger flow off of Sentinel inside you. They seem to have realized what the guns do from your memories, and you can feel their outrage making them squirm inside you, slithering between your organs. They pool towards your chest, ready to intercept the bullets and rain hell upon those who would threaten you. The man makes a motion with his hand and the other men take a step towards you.
“Don’t say I didn’t warn you.” You say. You give Eddie a firm nod before launching yourself at the masked man. You aim your fist at his face, and you can feel as Sentinel covers it with their own, lending their strength to yours. You hear a sickening sound as the man is launched backwards out of the apartment and into the door of the one across from Eddie’s. The other armed men open fire, but you are yanked out of the way at the last second by a thick, black strand. You look at Eddie, whose face is morphed into shock. As you both stare the black tendril slides back inside of him.
“Venom!” Sentinel exclaims from your mouth, their voice filled with something akin to glee. A very inhuman smirk morphs Eddie’s face.
“Sentinel.” Eddie, no Venom, confirms in their deep voice.
Suddenly they launch Eddie’s arms towards you and two thick tendrils snap past your head on either side. You hear a grunt behind you, and a loud thud. You return Venom’s smirk and spin around. You slam your fists into the chest of another attacker, and hear a loud crack. Before you can react, another attacker already has their gun trained on you. Suddenly a stool slams into the man’s head, and he collapses.You cautiously look around you, and realize that all of the attackers have been knocked unconscious.
“We can’t stay here.” Venom says, and you nod.
Relaxing, you allow Sentinel to take control of your body. They run out of Eddie’s apartment, with Venom close on their heels. They lurch to a stop at the top of the stairs, and you grimace when you realize why. Countless more men are storming up the stairs. They spin around, and spot a window at the end of the hall. They launch themselves towards it. You hear a very distinctly Eddie shriek behind you as Venom follows.