In memory of Stan Lee.
…That damn… SPIDER-MAN!
He… he really hates us! If he didn't he wouldn't have gotten rid of us in that church, if he didn't he wouldn't have separated us from Eddie, and if he didn't he wouldn't have used that goblin bomb on us!
…And yet…
I'm sure we SHOULD be dead. We swear the attack hit us face first.
We start looking around and notice that we aren't in that construction site anymore, the same place we held MJ captive, the same place we stabbed Harry with his own weapon.
Instead we are… somewhere were the skies are red, its filled with tons of trash and…games?
We keep looking around and notice something beneath us…its Eddie, or at least he was. We move near him and try to use the symbiosis…
But we can't.
Eddie is no longer with us.
Did he save us?
No, the explosion definitely hit us both at the same time, there's no way he could have done it. But, maybe God heard his prays and allowed him to take all the damage we should have taken? We knew he hated both Spiderman and Peter but… to think he would hate them so much, or love us so much, as to give up his life just to save us...
He really was a weird human. He hated us, but he tried to save us, just like Peter …whatever, we weren't anything but business partners in the first place.
Nothing but business partners.
We'll find a new host soon enough, one that actually kills that spider.
We start moving around. It's a slow process. Having no host makes it harder to transport. However we manage to do it with ease. As who says: Slow but simple. Moving like this was the way we found Peter after all: we got into his bike and followed him for a while until he was tired enough to not notice our presence and so bond with him.
Maybe the same method will work twice, or we could maybe just go and look for someone desiring…
Power.
Yeah, we'll offer someone power and then we'll completely take them! What we didn't do with Peter will be done with our next victim!
We move faster around the place, eager. No doubt it'll be hard to find a new host around here. We must go back to N.Y. and find someone else, someone willing to bond with us…
Someone who's willing to kill the spider with us.
After a while of moving we reach an… interesting scenario. One really interesting and weird scenario.
There are three women, a boy and a girl tied to some sort of trash mountain with cables surrounding their bodies in…'explicit' ways. And their suits are kind of explicit as well. "Indecent," as Peter and Eddie would say.
Then we see a giant black… robot(?) holding a giant axe, the robot had a design of skeletons, and he is going around the place back and forward…is he taking a look over them?
"…I'm bored!" we hear him scream at the top of his lungs, if he has any to begin with. "Why must I take care of these CPUs while the others are doing literally anything better than this!?"
He starts looking around him, as if checking to see if someone is watching. Luckily enough we are hidden behind a pile of trash so he won't see us. "I'll just go kill some monsters around the area, hopefully that will calm me a bit."
We see him leave the people called 'CPUs' for now, weird we thought that term was referred for those things computers had, at least that's what was on Peter's memories.
Making sure the robot had left, we jump in front of the 'CPUs' and take a note of how all of them are sleeping. Actually no, they are unconscious. Taking advantage of the situation we start climbing into the woman with purple hair and a purple skin suit that was mildly destroyed, but not enough to not show anything 18+.
Well here we go!
"Mmm!" The purple haired woman flinched and hissed at the feeling of us jumping on her. We start expanding all around her body, making sure to not leave a single spot free of us, and the moment we're done we immediately take a peek inside her memories.
…
We see and understand.
Apparently we are in a fantasy like world with monsters roaming around, adventurers ready to fight them, most of them are called Guild members and, obviously, work in the Guild, there is technology in all countries that overcomes the one of New York, at least when it comes to games and entertainment, there are four nations each ruled by a Goddess, also called CPU or Console Patrol Unit, the same four people who are currently trapped in here…
And yes, that boy is a girl with a really flat chest and lack of girly attributes.
As for the fifth one, the younger girl…she's the younger sister of this Goddess.
The name of the little one is Nepgear, and her Goddess name is Purple Sister.
Interesting.
Very, very interesting.
One little tiny problem though…
THERE IS NO SPIDERMAN IN HERE!
Its official: we died and went to hell!
Curse you Eddie and…Sandman! Curse you both pair of useless third quality villains! How are we supposed to get our vengeance now!?
…
We slowly leave the body of the Goddess and fall flat on the ground… there's no point in continuing, Venom only exists to get vengeance, the only reason we exist is to kill Peter Parker and Spiderman. If we are taken away from that right…
Then our existence holds a minimum value.
Unless… we start from zero at this place. I look at the younger girl, she has a light pink color hair and a white skin suit. Her fair skin would captivate most teenagers since she looks like one as well… according to her big sister's memories this girl is just the same way Peter was before gaining his powers.
Intelligent, submissive, a lack of self-confidence, easy to bully, looks up to people a lot, and has a crush on a girl that probably will never put attention to her, not in the way she wants it at least…
This girl…
Is she the equivalent of Peter in this world?
We slowly move near her and look at her with curiosity, there's no doubt, she represents what the Spiderman should represent: a kind personality with great sense of justice. The only thing she misses is the great jokes.
(Okay even Peter missed that last point, pretty often.)
She can become that, an equivalent of Spiderman a superheroine, if she gets out of her current problem.
Making some memory at what we saw in the head of the older CPU, we found out that games, this world's main economy, have been vandalized lately by a group called ASIC. Their leaders are not satisfied with their already terrorists acts, but have also started doing actual stuff that would be incredibly illegal back on Earth.
The Goddesses came here in an effort to put down the leaders once and for all but were beaten almost effortlessly by the main one: CFW Magic.
…We can feel it, this kid wants power, she wants power to face this Magic again and win, she wants power to help her sister and her friends, and with that power will come…a great responsibility.
…
Like bullshit we'll let that happen!
It's the perfect vengeance towards the arachnid, and now the one who was supposed to become a heroine will no longer be that. Even if it doesn't affect him directly, it'll make us feel accomplished! She reminds us so much of our first love, of Peter Parker.
We can be one with her…
And then she might reject us…
…
No, this time it won't be like that, not if we do a PERFECT SYMBIOSIS!
Yeah, we should have done that with Peter and Eddie, if we had then none of this would have happened!
Well then Nepgear, it was nice to meet you.
Goodbye.
Three Months later...
Planeptune, one of the four nations of Gamindustri.
This place is also known as the land of Purple Progress. For the last three years its Goddess and Goddess Candidate have been missing, or that's what they told to the public. The truth is, they were both captured by ASIC.
On top of the Planeptower, the main and highest buildings in the nation, were three people talking.
One of them was a teenage girl with looks of being 16 years old with brown hair tied with a leafy bow, wearing an oversized blue coat, a black shirt and shorts along with brown shoes, she's a Guild member. Another is a girl who also looks to be on her 16's with peach color hair and a read headband on top of it, she's also a nurse in training. She's wearing a wool shirt along a red short skirt and white shoes. The last one is a tiny fairy-esque girl with blonde hair, blue eyes, and blue dress for clothes. Lastly, she's riding a flying tome, and at the same time she holds a small green crystal on her right hand.
"Alright let's go over tomorrow's plan to rescue the CPUs," the small fairy goaded a serious expression on her face. "IF and Compa, you two will go to the Gamindustri Graveyard and, using the Share Crystal, you two will set free the CPUs. You'll bring them here, and once together we'll think of a new plan to take down ASIC once and for all."
"Simple enough. Right Compa?" the brunette asked her friend with a laid back tone.
"Y-Yes Iffy, with this Nep-Nep, Ge-Ge and the others will finally come home!" the girl now known as Compa spoke those words with happiness, if not without a little bit of nerves creeping into her tone. "And I have just one question: The Share Crystal, it's fully made out of Share Energy, correct?"
The fairy left out a tiny sigh. "Indeed. Share Energy, the energy that people create when they put their faith into a Goddess, has declined a lot, due to them being absent for a lot of time. It took us three years just to make this small one…"
Her expression saddened, as a thought came to her. "Girls… if it comes that you can only save one…bring Neptune home, as much as I don't like to admit it, she's the best one to charge against them."
"No problem, Histoire," IF spoke those words with security on her voice "We'll save Nep and the others with no-…"
She suddenly stopped. She…felt something…wrong.
Something… evil.
"Did someone else felt a chill run through their spines?" she asked, glancing around.
The fairy, Histoire, answered with a bit of fear in her eyes "It's-it's weird, the-the Sharacite… it's trying to tell me something, something dark, something diabolic… I've never felt this much madness before!"
Compa felt scared of something too. "I have…a horrible feeling that something is coming"
A great pillar of light emerged from outside a nearby window and a moment later, it suddenly shattered as a being entered. Everyone present turned to see the thing in complete shock.
The 'Monster' had a height not that different from both IF and Compa, but the similarities stopped pretty much there. The skin was completely dark with some white on the torso in the form of a spider and a giant N in the middle of it. It had some chest that proved it was female, it had long dark purple hair with a white D-Pad Clip in it, the hands of the being had claws for fingers and the same can be said for its feet. Its face was darkened as well, with nothing but two white eyes with a power symbol for pupils and a mouth, from where a giant, slimy tongue emerged, with sharpened teeth flashing, lastly there were black tendrils coming out of its body.
It looked at Compa before speaking, "No, it's not something, it's someone."
The humans and fairy almost scream from the fear the monster caused. However, a mix of fear and confusion appeared after they heard it talk. Even if it was a bit rougher than what it was, they recognized that voice anywhere and the clip on its head only heped in making them more sure of their theory.
"N-Nepgear, is that you!?" IF asked in panic, her body shaking with disbelief.
The creature only smirked before giving a step forward, at which they responded by taking a step back. "Is that the way you greet an old friend, Iffy?"
She started looking more carefully at the humans. "…You two have surely changed, last time I saw you, the two of you were smaller and less developed…except you Iffy, you still haven't drank your milk have you?"
Normally, the brunette would have felt insulted for that remark. However, this wasn't by any means a normal situation.
"Whatever." the creature, Nepgear, shook off, turning towards Histoire. "Hey Histy. How long has it been since we were captured?"
The tiny fairy was paralyzed, but had enough strength to answer, "Three years…"
"Really? Guess you lose track of time when you are out cold," the being that was Nepgear responded, looking at her hand before shaking her head. "Well, what's done is done. Histoire, IF, Compa, you three are my best friends, you three are part of what gives meaning to my life. That's why I'm here: to give you power, just like the one I was given."
Black color goo started forming on her hand before going back to it. "I fought it for a while. I thought it was dangerous. I was so wrong. We merged and became one, and now I feel better than ever."
Her words caused a representation of what happened in the mind of Histoire. "…Nepgear, I believe some sort of…demon took possession of you. If you let me help you I can find a way to retrieve it, or I can find a way to heal you."
That snapped Nepgear. "HEAL ME!?" she shouted. Her words made the fairy flinch and fly a bit more to the back. "I'm not ill or sick, so why do I need to be healed!? And besides, Venom isn't a demon!"
This time, Histoire decided to answer back, "I am your oracle and this world's tome. I have never seen something like this before, so whatever got you may not even belong to this dimension! We don't know the side effects it currently has on you!"
"Oh, side effects. So that's what worried you, eh? Don't worry Histy, aside from my new strength the only side effect I can take out is my new design." the blackened Nepgear cackled.
"That's not my point! Imagine what that thing is doing to you right now!" Histoire tried to reason.
"It's not doing anything to me. Venom is dead." Venom Nepgear responded. Even though her words were spoken it didn't look like anyone had processed them.
Compa managed to speak up. "If that's the case, why do you like that?"
"Well, he forced the two of us to bond into a single being. However, I thought the same as you: that he was a demon, so I resisted, and he had to destroy my mind to complete the perfect symbiosis." Venom Nepgear explained slowly. Time seemed to stop for everyone present. Their blood had been drained from their faces, so much so that they looked pale enough to be compared to a dead person. "He died and so did the past me. I'm the result of that symbiosis. Guess you could say my father killed my mother in order to create the perfect child: Me."
"T-that's a horrible thing to do!" The peach haired girl, Compa, screamed, hearing the story of how the symbiosis was done.
"…'Horrible'? No, this is a true act of mercy, an act of love. Venom used to have someone called Peter, but he finished rejecting him completely. Right afterwards, Venom found someone who shared his same hatred for the boy and bonded with him, but Peter just killed him." Venom Nepgear explained, her tone bitter. "Desperate, Venom found us in the Graveyard and entered my sister's memory and realized that I was like Peter, his first host, his first love, so he couldn't help but go after me. Just that this time he wouldn't allow to be separated from me, that's why he forced me to go through that painful experience so he wouldn't be alone anymore. At least, that's what I think. To be honest I never fully knew what was inside his head."
No one understood a thing about this. Some sort of thing had 'killed' Nepgear, and then fused with the corpse to the point where it couldn't be considered alive anymore and in exchange the corpse was forcefully brought back to life.
"Yeah… guess it would be what the narrator just said." Venom Nepgear commented, helping up those readers who didn't fully understand her story.
"But, how can you be fine with it?" Histoire asked, a tone of sadness in her voice. "From your words I'd go as far as saying that the only thing that makes you Nepgear is your body and the fact you have her memories."
The symbiote-possessed Goddess let out a chuckle. "Silly Histy… it's my body, so of course I remember everything that happened before being captured. I'm still me, with the slight difference that my personality was erased and replaced by a better one. One that gives me more power, the power I need to destroy ASIC once and for all."
The black goo from before started reforming on her hands as she showed it to her friends. "I came here to give you the same power."
It took the three others a full minute to fully understand her words.
And when they did, a great feeling of fear overtook them that they didn't even bother trying to hide from their expressions.
"Are you insane, Nepgear!?" IF screamed with all the force her lungs had. "You are asking us to leave our humanity behind for… power!"
Venom Nepgear got confused at her words. "Ask? I'm not asking you to do it. I'm telling you to do it."
By the time she ended her sentence, she was already in front of Histoire. "Starting with you!" she shouted loudly, thrusting her arm forward at the small fairy's face.
Before she could lay a hand on her oracle, however, a tickling feeling ran through her body. She knew this feeling thanks to Venom's memory. Spider-sense is tingling!
To say IF was impressed the moment the monster going by the name of her friend jumped back instants before she even pulled the trigger of her gun would be a huge understatement.
"Were you seriously about to murder your friend?" Nepgear asked, hoping to break the brunette with her words.
"N-NO! YOU AREN'T MY FRIEND! MY FRIEND WOULDN'T DO ANY OF THIS!" IF yelled, aiming at the monster. This time she wasn't going to miss, she was sure. "YOU ARE JUST A MONSTER WHO'S NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY ASIC MEMBER!"
Gunshots started occurring, one after another. Poor IF didn't have the willpower to look at her target, if she had her brain would have processed faster what had happened, and by the time she opened them she saw all the bullets implanted in some weird black goo coming out of the tendrils in Nepgear's body and covering her face.
Thanks to her mind barely working she wasn't able to move away from Venom Nepgear, who had cut the distance between the two and delivered a tough punch on her friend's gut, knocking the air out of her and causing her to fall to the ground face first.
S-since when…was she this strong…? That was IF's current train of thought and almost in no time she had lost all the strength to remain awake.
Compa, while still in panic, managed to summon her syringe and started shooting 'magical bullets' out of it, all of them easily avoided by the monster who knew the exact place they would land the exact moment the nurse girl fired the shot.
Just like it happened with the brunette, Nepgear quickly gave the younger teenager a One-Shot that knocked her to the ground but didn't manage to get her out cold.
"Your body is weaker than IF's, so I really don't want to accidently break it." Venom Nepgear whispered quietly, though darkly.
And suddenly, there was only one left.
Turning left, she found Histoire summoning butterfly like wings that shone amazingly.
"I don't want to hurt you, Nepgear…"
She's bluffing. Venom Nepgear spoke to herself. Her spider-sense hadn't activated, so it could only mean she was all bark and no bite.
"Histy, you were always like a mother to me." Venom Nepgear cooed. "That's why I want to give you this power. And I'll do it even if I must kill you for it."
The tome's eyes widened as the monster continued, "You see, I can literally reanimate any dead and turn them like me. The only difference is that there'll be nothing inside them, just the reanimated body with the memories of the owner. Now, I don't want to do that…"
Venom Nepgear flashed her teeth at Histoire. "But I will if you don't cooperate with me."
"…"
Histoire knew it was useless, they were going to be 'Venomized', weather they liked it or not, and afterwards there would be nothing left of them. Not a single trace that they were once humans. Or tome, in her case.
Then, an idea popped in her head. "It… must be hard to make us bond to a symbiote by force, right?"
The expression on the symbiote-possessed Goddess changed to one that showed she was thinking. Histoire saw opportunity, and took it. "Let's do this, I'll save you the problems of turning me and I'll turn into… one of your kind by my own will… but in exchange, please let go of IF and Compa. Those two haven't done anything to deserve this."
"…" Venom Nepgear's expression easily showed how much she was thinking about this option.
"So, what do you say, Nepgear?" Histoire slowly asked, ready to start moving should the monster say no.
"…" a grin appeared on the symbiote-possessed Goddess's face "You can call it a deal, Histy."
"But before that… I want you to know something…" Histoire whispered, her eyes fierce. "To me, Nepgear is dead. To me, you aren't Nepgear, you are a monster who took her skin and placed it on itself. And that's why, even if you give me an order, I'll make sure to screw it up as much as I can just to make you suffer."
The expression of the fairy went from a scared one to a violent one. She closed her eyes, and simply muttered three words.
"Do your worst."
She stayed there, waiting for literally anything to happen.
"Maybe you're right."
Histoire slowly peeked open one eye to see the monster looking… almost disappointed.
"Maybe I'm not Nepgear anymore. Thank you for making me realize it. Please call me… Poison."
After those words, Histoire closed her eyes tightly again, expecting to be stabbed, to be covered in the black goo that surrounded the newly renamed Poison…
But nothing happened. She opened her eyes three minutes later to find out that Poison had left the place.
Not knowing what really happened she just fell to the ground (still on top of her tome) and started breathing almost as if she had been separated from air.
One thing was for sure:
Nepgear was gone and was never coming back.
Somewhere in Planeptune…
Poison POV…
I land on top of a building in the edges of the city, and look around to confirm that I'm alone.
Seeing no one but me, I sigh and notice a small hand mirror near me on the ground. I take it and notice my power symbol eyes go bright. At the same time, I notice I have dragon like wings… guess this is how my HDD looks now.
HDD… Hard Drive Divinity, the transformation to my Goddess form…
Looking at it now, I don't look as Godly as I used to back then. A pillar of light surrounds me and when it dies, both my wings and the bright of my eyes disappear...yet, the power symbol remains.
I drop the mirror into the ground and sit on top of the building's border.
Why didn't I turn her?
I could have done it and once she realized the power it brought she would have loved it and embraced it.
…
Guess there's still some Nepgear in me.
I stare into the city and remember how New York has nothing that can be possibly compared to this place. I feel proud of my nation…am I even part of it at this point?
Am I destined to be alone?
…
Am I even alone?
Venom is dead, he died giving birth to me, and so did Nepgear…
Is there even a reason for my existence?
…
There is, I just need to find someone who will accept me, someone who will be willing to be with me.
Let's think about someone…
Venom went after Nepgear because she reminded him of his first host…
…His first love…
I grinned, thinking of an idea, and I start to ponder on the answer of a single question:
Who is Nepgear's first love?
AN:
Thaks to ButterHunter for Beta-reading this story.
So yeah, this thing will only be a two shots story, and maybe even a sequel.
I took the Venom from the first trilogy of Spider-man due to being I felt like they didn't use his potential to the maximum.
I like Tom Hardy's Venom more than this one but hey, his Venom is the real concept of Anti-Hero while this one is still a villain.
And no, you don't really have to know a lot about the Neptunia series to read this since it focuses on the beginning of the second game, which is the first one of the canon series, and just goes a bit further in some bosses.
Also, this story was mainly based on the comic: What if Spider-Man the Other?
And yes, Poison would be an OC.
For those wondering: The spidey sense recieved a small upgrade thanks to the user being capable of leveling up, and with the level up her stats increase and so, her abilities become better (like in any RPG). And for the record, she's not even level 10 yet.
This is my first Neptunia X Spider-man Crossover so, what do you think of it?
Last but not least, The cover belongs to my friend Gbang786, you can find him on Devianart, and funny thing, this story should have been published in December but some stuff happened and thus it got delayed.
I won't mention them due to the fact I don't want to be lynched.
Anyways, next chapter. The amazing conclussion!
Man, I wish Carnage was here to see it.
Shadic Out.
:)