Runner Chapter 8
The men lowered their weapons and backed away slowly.
Norman smiled "I don't know what this is about Peter but rest assured, you won't get away with this."
Karissa came out of the vault, "Come on Ben let's go." The two of them escaped to the roof where a helicopter waited for them.
As they boarded however Norman and his men began opening fire on them. Ben fire back as the chopper took off. Unable to bring the chopper down Norman watched it disappear into the night.
On the flight back Ben sat gripping his gun tightly, he couldn't shake the feeling he had when he saw Norman and was prepared to shoot him. Deep down inside of him it felt wrong, in the pit of his stomach he felt conflicted.
Back at Hydra things were quiet, all the higher up's were away at staff meetings and getting plans organized.
Ben sat alone in a dark room, he asked to be put there, just himself and the depths of his mind. He let his mind wonder, he was trying to find peace to calm himself but his lack of memories made it difficult to do. Suddenly the door opened and the light crept into the room over to him. He looked up and saw Karissa standing in the doorway. She didn't speak but Ben knew to follow her, she wouldn't have come otherwise.
They left the room and headed down a long corridor, they entered a room and a Ben recognize Norman Osborn.
Norman smiled. "Hello Ben. Karissa please fill him in on the details."
"Yes sir." Karissa turned to Ben. "Agent Riley, you have passed your rehabilitation training and have been approved to return to regular duty. Norman Osborn was your field tester and is here to fill you in on Hydra's new objectives."
He smiled confidently. "Thank you. Now then first things first, I am the new owner of Hydra."
Ben was somewhat surprised to hear this but he shrugged off any unnecessary remarks.
"Second is that for our new objective we will now focus on controlling New York and then afterwards we shall control America. To do this we've acquired the help from some very special allies. All I need from you for now Agent Riley is for you to go and get prepped for the exosuit you stole from me."
Ben shook his head and left the room. He went to Dr. Octavius's lad and noticed two suits and another person who he didn't recognize there. Dr. Octavius signaled for Ben to take a seat.
Ben look over at the other person and soon realized it was Norman Osborn's son Harry Osborn. "Harry Osborn? What are you doing here?"
Harry looked over towards Ben and shock filled his eyes. "So it's true, you really do look like him, Peter Parker." Harry suddenly looked down. "That's why I'm here. I want revenge for my friend."
"Revenge? Revenge against who?"
Anger filled Harry's eye's, "Spider-Man. It's all his fault, him and his new sidekick Runner. My father said they were the reason that building exploded and killed Peter. I told my dad I wanted revenge, that I wanted to feel their broken bodies in my hand. Then he told me about this and I gladly said yes."
Harry spoke with a fiery purpose and Ben could see his determination.
Dr. Octavius cleared his throat and motioned for them to look his way. Ben and Harry faced forward and noticed to exosuits, a black one and a red one.
"Now then you two if you would kindly pay attention I will explain what these two suits do." He held up two containers, each contained weird almost liquid like substances that seemed life like. "A while back Hydra discovered a crash site which contained a strange meteorite and this black organism. We took and test it and after a while we called it Venom because of it's need to feed off of and bring out certain human emotions. After a while they tasked me with cloning and mutating Venom. What created was something even more deadly and powerful. We named it Carnage. Mr. Osborn helped me build these two exosuits that will allow the wearer to use the organism's power while lessening the effects the have on the body. You two will be the owners. With you Ben Riley as Agent Venom and you Harry Osborn as Agent Carnage."