And the waiting game shall commence again! This time, we journey into the dark mind... of VENOM! I like this story image so much that I made it my avatar. It's really cool!

Ultimate Teen Titans

Venom

Chapter I

The Suit

The following is a voice recording round on the canister containing the liquid symbiote known as Project: Venom.

"Hi, son. I don't know if you know this, but what you have here is the cure for cancer. Or rather, what the cure should be, if this is ever completed."

"If you are listening to this message, then I'm probably dead. I'm not saying that because I know I'm going to die. I'm just being careful."

"By now, you're probably old enough to understand what I'm talking about when I say how truly sorry I am. Nothing could have driven me more to find a cure than to make sure you and your mom were safe. This mentality caused me to create the Venom suit as it is... violent, unstable, dangerous."

"I did it because I knew it was a weapon. There was no other way to describe it. Curing cancer and all other debilitating diseases are not very high on the list when it comes to a weapon that could reasonably reduce the standing population of any structure to zero. Trask... god, that man. He had no clue what he had. We never gave him the suit, any of it. Eddie and I agreed never to complete the project, and to destroy the suit we had."

"But Trask threatened you, your mom, Ben and May... Eddie's family. We had no choice. We had to give the suit to him."

"However, we were the only ones who knew how to create it, and more importantly, how to change it. We almost had the completed suit. We decided to make it a little more venal."

"There was an accident. The suit got loose, and destroyed some major facilities in the Southwest. Dozens of people were killed. I felt... I felt responsible. I had done this. Because I had given it my DNA to be a base, this thing... was almost like me. Not even Eddie could claim part of the blame. This was my fault."

"No words can describe to you what I felt next. I tracked down the suit, much like Dr. Frankenstein scoured the earth for his monstrous creation. I had a kinship with this fictional genius. I also had a shared destiny."

"I had to destroy the suit, no matter what Trask did. I'm sorry Peter... I had to stop it, and never try to play God again."

"I found it, somewhere in Utah. It was hiding in an abandoned warehouse. Bodies were everywhere, sucked dry by the beast's eternal hunger for food, for vitality. It fed off of adrenal glands and white blood cells. The thing that I thought was going to cure cancer was instead killing everything else."

"But as I said, I found it. I had known, by a lab accident some months ago, that the suit didn't like fire. In fact, it was one of its weaknesses. There was also sonics, but I couldn't use noise loud enough that I would also be killed, and I had to make sure this was dead."

"It was pitiful. Lying there, a black pool in the dirty floor, it whimpered with pain. I don't know how... but it was conscious at some animal level, not sentient, God forbid, but certainly... alive."

"What happened next... I shudder to think of it now. It morphed, forming the body of a human, frail and decrepit. My heart stopped as I recognized it. It looked like a Parker, not quite like me, not quite like your mother."

"Somehow I knew... it was you."

"This creature had taken my blood memories of you and had become you. I felt my hands tremble, and I feared I wouldn't be able to do what I knew I had to do. I had a torch in my hand. I had to do it."

"I couldn't. My nerve failed me. Sensing weakness, the suit sprang at me. It covered me, drowning me in its black depths..."

"It bonded with me. I felt it connect with my bloodstream, and I felt better than ever. For one wild moment, I truly believed that the suit was perfected, and my hopes and joys were fulfilled."

"And then the hunger hit me. A gnawing, biting hunger that clawed not at my belly, but at my mind, my heart, everything... it was pain like I hope you will never experience."

"I don't know how I got it off. I just remember fighting for what seemed like an eternity, but eventually it left me, naked and cold on the ground."

"I can't remember much of the next few days. It's not important. What is important is that you remember these words, Peter. This thing is dangerous. I could never, in my life hope to perfect it."

"But you can. I know it. I believe that I am only half the scientist that you will be. And I know for sure that I'm only half the man you will grow up to be. How can't you, with influences like Ben and May and your dear mother?"

"Peter, I promise you... you will do great things. Great things. I know it. I only hope that you will show more responsibility... than I did. I love you son."

"Goodbye."

Actually, I might post the next chapter. This is more or a prologue. Yeah, I'll post the next one. But that's it!