First Contact
Edward Charles Allan Brock, better known as Eddie Brock, was a journalist, an extremely successful one at that, he had taken down countless of corrupt companies and was pretty known by the media. His life was what you could cal near perfect.
But that all fell apart the moment he walked into the Life Foundation’s headquarters for his interview with non other than Carlton Drake. Eddie’s curiousity peaked and he put himself into business he wasn’t supposed to be in, the usual for his job, but this decision is what made his life fall apart, or so it seemed.
He lost his relationship, he lost his job, his confidence, his place in the media, his home, he lost everything the moment he stepped into that building, was gone the moment he was assigned to interview Carlton Drake
Now some may see this as being the worst thing that ever happened to him, but in his opinion it was one of the best.
Roughly nine months later, Eddie had made a close companion, his relationship had gone to ‘I hate you’ to ‘Yeah we are good friends’ , he got his job back, and he got one hell of a kickass story to tell people, not that they believed him.
Well they didn’t believe him until a certain Symbiote popped up from behind him, in which the would run away screaming.
It never got old.
But things had turned South roughly a month ago when some of the remaining, loyal followers of Carlton Drake’s plan had showed up.
From what he and Venom could tell they wanted to capture them and take them back to the Life Foundation, see what makes The Symbiote compatible with the host, using this information to continue the original plan but better and more effectively.
They ambushed Eddie at night when he had made a trip to the convience store... Venom had been demanding chocolate... again.
Eddie huffed as he began the walk back to his apartment, “Let’s eat it now.”
“No.” Eddie sighed frustratingly, ignoring the usual weird looks.
”Why Not?”
Eddie only rolled his eyes changing the topic “For someone who likes biting peoples heads off, liking chocolate is one of the weirdest things you could have, just saying.” Eddie huffed, practically feeling Venoms own eyes roll, even though they... couldn’t.
”Duck!” Venom quickly hissed, forcing Eddie’s body to follow the command anyways.
Eddie’s eyes widened as a projectile flew their way, “Is that a fucking tranq?” He hissed.
Venoms only response was getting them the hell out of there as two black limbs shot out of Eddie’s back pushing him off the ground and lunching him upwards, Eddie grunted as he grabbed the side of the apartment roof, beginning to pull himself up before the blackness once again emerged and went over his head, landing on the flat surface of the roof before flipping him over.
Eddie stumbled a second before rushing forwards across the rooftop, Life Drones soon flew up and dived straight for them. “ShitShitShit this is your fault, I told you to wait until tomorrow to get chocolate.” He hissed as he leapt between two buildings, Venom shooting out and pulling him forwards to reach the destination faster.
After they had defeated Drake the two had trained quite a bit as Venom decided to stay, they were now very in sync with each other and their movements and Eddie new he could count on Venom to catch him just as Venom knew he could count on Eddie to get them out of here without the Symbiote coming out and drawing attention.
There were now black vans in the street below following Eddie and Venoms trail.
“The drones must have cameras in them.” Eddie hissed as he jumped of the apartment to the wall of another, feeling the sensation of his lower arms and hands were replaced with Venoms grabbing onto the wall and propelling himself up the few metres it took.
”I’m on it.”
Eddie if he hadn’t been running he would have cocked his head too the side in confusion, but he couldn’t because he was running away from a psychotic organisation.
His question was soon answer anyways as he felt black spikes form on his back before shooting outwards, all effectively hitting the drone.
With the drones discarded of, Eddie wasted no time leaping off the apartment roofs and jumping down onto the side of another the building, scaling it quickly before finding himself on a modernly decorated balcony.
Eddie huffed taking one glance inside the apartment before noticing it was empty, he wasted no time opening the doors into it and slipping inside as he heard the whiz of Vans down in the street below.
Letting out an angered yell as he punched the wall before sliding down it, this was the second ambush this month.
“They aren’t gonna stop.” He hissed, sliding down the wall.
”We could always rip their heads off.” Venom suggested helpfully as the Symbiotes face emerged on a long tendril from his back, reaching around to face its host.
Eddie shook his head “We don’t even know everyone who is behind this, no, we need to fall off the grid for a while.”
”Pussy.”
“It’s called being smart.” Eddie shot back, “It’s better that way anyways, I’ve been needing a holiday and we can come back in a year once this has all blown over.”
”Sure sure, where will we go though?”
Eddie smiled, “Ever heard of a place called New York?”
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Meanwhile at The Avengers tower and arch’s is themed hero slid in through the window too his room. “Karen what’s the time?” Peter asked quietly as he climbed along the ceiling, before quietly and cautiously dropping to the floor with a light thump.
“It is currently 3:12am making you two hours, twelve minutes and forty-two seconds past your curfew.” The AI replied helpfully.
“Uh, thanks. Run a thermal scan and tell me if anyone is awake.” He asked nervously.
“There is currently someone awake in the corner of your room.” Karen supplied.
“What?? FRIDAY lights on!” Peter all but shrieked, aiming his arms out, one at each corner in front of him.
What he didn’t expect was to see a not so happy looking Tony Stark sitting on the bean bag in the corner.
“Well that’s not creepy.” Peter supplied, trying to lighten the mood.
“Kid, you have a curfew for a reason, so your aunt doesn’t grill me, she may be attractive but that woman is terrifying when she is mad.” Tony sighed.
Peter suddenly felt overwhelmed with guilt, Mr. Stark has stayed up until three fucking am waiting for him to come home.
“I Uh...” Peter scratched the back of his neck awkwardly, “Lost track of time, but you don’t need to stay up later Mr. Stark, I was fine really, my sleeping schedule usually gets messed up over the break anyways....” he trailed off.
“I didn’t stay up late because I wanted to get mad at you, I did it because I care about you kid.” Tony sighed. “Besides I probably would have still been up anyways.” He snorted.
Peter smiled and gave a small nod of agreement, it was no secret Tony’s sleeping schedule was fucked ten ways to Sunday.“Sorry.” He finally said, “I’ll try to keep track of the time next time.”
Tony only nodded curtly before standing up and ruffling the kids hair, “G’night kiddo.” He smiled before walking out of the room, pulling out his phone as he closed the door.
Peter sighed flopping down on the bed and pulling out his phone, he always liked to check on his alter egos status after patrolling and tonight was no different.
Blurry shots of him saving a young girl who got stuck under a collapsed beam was the front article and Peter smiled softly at the memory of her parents thanking him profusely, the little girl had given him a small stuffed teddy bear which he only now realised was still in his hand.
He smiled walking over and setting it on a specific shelf above his sleek white desk he had reserved for gifts he got as his alter-ego. It was a small collection but it was one non the less and Peter treasured every item on there.
Pretty soon he was passed out on his bed in some Pajama’s that had some science pun on them.
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Eddie had packed light, a duffel bag secured on in his hand as him and Venom set off for New York.
Eddie had made a piss-poor excuse to both his work and his very few friends about needing to do some ‘soul-searching’ or some crap.
The only one that didn’t buy it was Anne and she had demanded to know what was going on but Eddie had just shrugged her off, looking back at it, it was kinda cold but it was the right thing to do.
Unfortunately the trip was far to long to ride on Eddie’s bike there so he opted to buying a plane ticket. Something Venom was strongly against by the way.
The plane ride was meant to be five hours but with the entertainment and conversations with Venom is seemed a whole lot shorter, although he was pretty sure the kind lady next to him thought he was crazy but that was normal by now so he wasn’t bothered.
He had chuckled lightly at Venoms reaction to E.T. the Symbiote was shocked that this was a normal humans interpretation of life outside of Earth. He had joked about wishing he had actually ended the planet. At least he thinks he was joking. Hopes he was.
After getting off the plane Eddie called a taxi to a random part of the city before beginning to walk. Taking in the breath taking sights, he had always wanted to go to New York and it was everything he thought it would be and more.
So here they were now, 1:00am and pulling out a change of clothes before flopping down onto the motel bed. They had arrived. They were safe for now.
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One Month Later
Peter walked into the kitchen, it was roughly 9:00pm and Peter instantly regretted walking into the kitchen as three water balloons were thrown at his face.
He just stood still in shock for a few seconds before shaking his now wet hair, water flying off the ends.
“Thanks.” He muttered bitterly to a laughing Clint and Scott.
“Sorry spiderling.” Scott laughed walking over and patting him on the back, immediately regretting the action as Peter shot out his hand, webbing Scott’s feet too the ground.
“Oh shit.” Was heard from Clint as he tried to back up but his feet ended up being stuck the floor too.
“It’ll dissolve in a couple hours.” Peter smirked, waving his hand dismissively to the two gaping heroes.
“What?? no!!” Clint hissed, “Get this shit off us now or I’ll ground you!”
Peter stuck out his tongue “Good luck with that, I’m going back to school tomorrow so you won’t be able too.” Was all he said as he made his way over too the fridge.
“Of course you’re happy to go to school.” Was all Clint muttered for a reply.
“Don’t you dare drink my ice coffee!!” Scott screeched, Peter only smiled opening the fridge and reaching for that exact drink.
Scott let out a dramatic gasp, “Traitor!!” He shrieked.
Peter only smiled, sipping from the iced coffee bottle as he walked away too his room, “I’ll see when you get back!” He said giving a small wave, “If you’re still stuck I might let you out.”
Peter smirked walking down the hallway to his room and Scott and Clint let out shouts of protest, sculling the full body of iced-coffee the teen quickly took of his hoodie and attached his web shooters to his wrists before quickly slipping out the window.
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“ShitShitShit, God fucking!!” Eddie yelled angrily as he was currently being persued by a fucking helicopter, the loud sound frequency’s emitted from it not only hurting his ears but his entire body ached.
He had been running for a good ten minutes, first it just seemed like some guy had been following him which Eddie didn’t really care for. Eddie would be able to fight him off no problem, well Venom technically would. It was actually kind of strange for Eddie to see as the Symbiote became more protective of its host the more time they spent together, but it didn’t matter because even though he knew he would never need it, Eddie would protect Venom however he could too.
But nope the rouge Life Foundation members had somehow tracked him and Venom down.
Ducking into an alleyway the anti hero took a couple of moments to catch his breath and try and calm down his heartbeat as he took in his surroundings carefully, looking for an easy escape from his current predicament.
”Theyre coming Eddie.” Venom hissed urgently.
“I know, I know! Just give me a minute.” He breathed, looking around desperately.
“Alright this isn’t working.” Eddie hissed before feeling the all to familiar feeling as the Symbiote wrapped around him like a protective layer.
Venom flicked its tongue before looking around, taking a few loud steps forward, the concrete of the alleyway threatening to break underneath.
The Symbiote looked up as a loud sound came above them, the helicopter. It’s loud noise became too much and Venom screeched, stumbling backwards as pain enveloped it.
Eddie could feel parts of Venom trying to get away from the host in protest whilst other parts fought too stay with him, this feeling only increased as a second helicopter came out and Venom was now under bright lights casted by them.
Venom screeched again before hearing the voice come from one of the helicopter “Surrender yourself or we will use lethal forces!” The voice has boomed out. ”Not Today.”, pulling himself together, they had to get out of here now.
Ignoring the searing pain Venom let out a snarl before jumping up and scaling the furthest away apartment block that he could reach, his heavy feet letting out loud thumps with every long stride he would take.
They weren’t doing too terribly, the scorching sound frequencies slowly began to get lower and lower as the helicopters lost sight of the Symbiote.
Venom ducked his tongue as he consciously was about to let Eddie take back over.
Well that was until a small figure jumped down and landed in front of them in a squatted position, one hand on the ground for balance and one held up threateningly.
Spider-Man
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Peter had been patrolling for a couple hours, it was actually somewhat quiet tonight only a few muggers and some guys getting a bit to comfortable with girls in back alleyways.
Peter had just finished webbing up a couple of muggers to the wall of an alleyway before rushing over to the poor guy that had gotten mugged too help him.
Just as he reached the guy his enchanted senses picked up on loud, extremely loud movement, large thumping noises coming from above.
Peter instantly looked up, waiting a couple of moments before a large, black figure leapt over the alleyway and onto the other building.
That thing was way to big to be human.
Without thinking Peter shot out a web too follow the thing and his eyes widened as he landed on top of the building, that thing was massive.
His eyes narrowed as he swiftly followed behind it, it was fast, but Peter was faster as he raced and flipped following it, jumping over an alleyway and shooting a web to the building it had just landed on.
Huffing the teen continued to run after it, he got pretty close behind it before flipping over and landing in front of it.
His heart began thumping even faster as he Spidey sense tingled rapidly at the back of his neck.
He studied the creature for a few moments as it’s long tongue flicked out, Peter almost stumbled back as it spoke, its voice was deep and manevelont.
”Move Spider-Man and let us be, or I will make you.” it rumbled.
Peter swallowed harshly as he Rosen to his feet, never leaving a defensive position, “I can’t let you do that.” He hissed, trying his best not to let his voice waver under the mounting fear.
The thing took a threatening step forward and it seemed surprise as Peter didn’t take a step back, even he was surprised by this action. Peter could hear his own heartbeat rising to a million miles an hour. His eyes widening causing the lenses of his mask too as the creature hesitated a moment before continue to walk forwards, slowly and menacingly
It wasn’t until it was a good metre away that Peter half stumbled backing up, his eyes unable to leave the creatures.
He let out a surprised gasp and black tendril shot out from the creature looking down to see it had wrapped itself firmly around his torso. Peter instinctively tried squirming away from the iron grip but to no prevail, using his still free hands to try and push it away or at least loosen it.
His eyes widened as he was lifted off the ground before being pulled towards the thing. He choked back a sob as it’s breath smelled sour and it wasted no time in showing him its array of teeth as it spoke, ”You seem different to most humans.
That’s when Peter seemed to really understand the situation and pretty soon he was full on thrashing, trying to get away from this thing as fear overtook him. He was pretty sure he felt the grip loosen for a moment before he found his arms were also now tied up in the tendril, firmly pressed against his side.
”You’re enhanced.” it observed. Peter tried too think of a witty comeback but words were a lost idea at this moment to him, he shivered and let out a small whimper as he felt the black tendrils extend and reach up, swirling their way around his throat but never gripping it.
Peters mind raced, he was doing nothing, ‘Cmon Parker think of something.’ He thought desperately his eyes scanning the area for an escape route he might be able to take.
His thoughts were quickly cut off as the creatures spoke up again but Peter was unsure if it was talking too him.
”What do you mean we can’t eat him? the creature demanded, its grip tightening harshly causing Peter to yelp in pain as it dug into a stab wound that was yet to heal from the night before.
Peter cocked his head too the side in pure confusion.
”So He isn’t a bad guy? But he beats people up?” the creature had argued to seemingly no one.
“U-uh.... who are you talking too?” Peter peaked up, swallowing thickly.
”Shut up!” the thing snarked dangerously, it’s large teeth making a snapping noise.
Peter squeaked, shrinking on himself as he kicked uselessly.
Then suddenly two helicopters came out of no where, Peter had been so focused on the creature his senses hadn’t picked up on the loud hovering sound.
He gasped as he was dropped and the creatures began screaming in pain, Peter was beyond confused as he extended his senses out, looking up at the helicopter.
The side read ‘Life Foundation’ and Peter went slightly paled at the name. There had been many rumours of the Foundation being corrupt and doing human experimentation.
At first they had done it on enchanced individuals, trying to find ways to cure diseases and live longer.
Then after that rumour died down new ones emerged of alien experimentation. The article had read spoke of things called ‘Symbiotes’ a foreign race that needed to connect with a human host to survive on their planet. Rumour was that many humans lives were lost trying to host the Symbiotes.
That’s when Peter connected the dots, this thing was a Symbiote, it had connected with a host and was now wreaking havoc.
Peter stumbled backwards as his senses extended out further, into the helicopters. “I have eyes on the Symbiote and- holy shit it’s Spider-Man.”! One of them hadn’t gasped.
“Boss calls for the detainment of both Spider-Man and the Symbiote, capture them both and bring them back to the Life Foundation HQ” a second person reported.
By now the creature- the Symbiote was on the ground screeching in pain, it’s whole body was jittering and Peter was able to catch sight of the human underneath, his breath got caught in his throat.
Peter watched a few more moments until something black ripped itself from the person.
Peter staggered backwards shaking his head he turned around and hopped off the building and swinging off into the night.
What he didn’t notice was at the last second the black creature had lunged onto him and was now sleeping through his suit and into him.