Gathered friends, listen now to a new perspective to a legend known as The Revelation of Arkeanus. In order to be better prepared for Kraakhan, the Demon God of Deceit's next attack. King Michael enlisted his most trusted general, Xlynn to train Lincoln Loud and Ronalda Anne Santiago the ways of combat. To do this, she gave the children an united alternate version of the klyntar known as Venom and Carnage. However, during the battle between the boy and the Nobody, she falsely threatened to end his very meaning in life. This created a spiritual and mental strain due to the countless entities born from the memories of Lincoln's pure and dark counterparts. All information belongs to their respective creators. This is where their story begins.
Entry #1: True Symbiosis / Data Entry: Klyntar (Earth-616)
Within the confines of the Castle Arena there are containers containing one most incredibly powerful entities of the Marvel Multiverse; the Klyntar. Better known as the Symbiotes, They are a species of inorganic, amorphous, symbiotic extraterrestrials from the Andromeda Galaxy. In their natural state, the Klyntar were benevolent, existing in a hive mind and capable of sensing the "voice" of the Cosmos; Bionuva Nui, The True God.
They endeavored to create an intergalactic peacekeeping society by using the symbiosis they need to subsist in order to transform worthy hosts into the ultimate noble warriors, the Agents of the Cosmos. However, to achieve this perfect symbiosis, the host must have a perfect blend of moral and physical ideals. If not, the resulting symbiosis would corrupt both the Klyntar and its host. Klyntar are fully aware and sentient creatures, but when corrupted are also vicious and wild, compelling their hosts to violence and corrupting them.
At some point in the distant past, these corrupted Klyntar established a brutal spacefaring empire dedicated to infecting and overtaking entire planets, spreading misinformation about their benevolent counterparts. As a result, the species as a whole developed the reputation of being amorphous predatory monsters that dominate their host mentally and physically while parasitically feeding off their emotions and bodies. The corrupted Klyntar tend to force their hosts to perform spectacular and terrifying feats in order to feed off of the resulting rush of adrenaline and possibly other hormones, such as phenethylamine which can be found in certain fungi ,chocolate, and brain matter.
Eventually, these host beings would be sucked dry, exhausted by the constant stress and exertion, or simply die in a failed stunt, whereupon the klyntar would seek out a new host and repeat the process. At some point in time, a colony of feral Klyntar encountered a man named Norrin Radd and the planet they had conquered was devoured by Galactus (The Great Destroyer of Worlds at the time) causing them to develop an instinctual fear of his herald via their genetic memory. At another point in time, feral Klyntar invaded a realm called the Microverse, where their very existence proved corrosive and toxic, and attempted to consume a powerful energy called the Enigma Force, but were repelled by its power.
While corrupted Klyntar are cut off from their species' hive-mind and unable to access their full potential, it has been noted on several occasions that certain long-lived specimens have become more powerful over time, usually by bonding to multiple successive hosts and can develop increased resistance to heat and sonics with repeated exposure. In some cases, they can undergo spontaneous mutation and develop new abilities. Many corrupt Klyntar possess ravenous predatory appetites for the flesh of other life-forms and will influence or force their hosts to commit cannibalism to satiate this.
It is for this reason that feral symbiotes consider themselves to be the ultimate predators of the universe, and are regarded with revulsion and terror by most other species. At least one feral Klyntar, the Carnage symbiote, has demonstrated the ability to convert consumed organic material into additional biomass, using this power to assist in conquering the town of Doverton, Colorado and to regenerate from a small tissue sample after being separated from its host. Feral Klyntar are much more effective at bonding to their host if the host has the same feelings and urges as the symbiote.
As this shows, Klyntar are able to project their own emotions and personal desires, in addition to reflecting and reacting to the emotions and desires of their host, to the point of assuming complete control over their host's body if they so choose. A Klyntar's influence over its host can be resisted and suppressed through a number of means, including willpower and chemical sedatives. Symbiotes in general are weak to intense heat and sonics, although successive generations can develop a resistance to these weaknesses, and an individual symbiote can also mutate to become more resilient over time.
Klyntar can also amalgamate with one another to become more powerful, as seen with the Hybrid symbiote, Carnom, a Venom-Carnage hybrid created by Green Goblin 2099 with a Nexus Shard in the mega-corporation building of Alchemax on Earth-13122 when their reality's Kang the Conqueror united multiple time periods to create Chronopolis, and with the Venom-Carnage hybrids created by Marquis Radu.
They can also mutate with other beings to create a more powerful entity such as the temporal abomination, Atrocity of Earth-TRN199, through forced fusion of Anti-Venom, Dr. Octopus, Rhino and Walker Sloan of 2099, when the former, in a blind rage, slammed the three into a quantum gateway of the latter's design. The quantum particles fused their bodies and mind to become their reality's greatest monster.
Even if separated from a host, trace remnants of the Klyntar's biomass will often remain in the host's body, as seen with the Venom symbiote leaving remnants of itself within the bodies of Peter Parker and Eddie Carnage symbiote has taken this process to an extreme by merging with its host's blood, making separating them very difficult. The symbiote that would eventually become Venom was the 998th generation of a lineage of symbiotes, hatched on the planet Klyntar from an egg. Bred to be an Agent of the Cosmos, it was bonded to the inhabitant of an icy planet, who proved to be an unworthy host filled with hatred and cruelty. The host used the young symbiote to carry out a genocide against his homeworld, leaving it a barren wasteland and corrupting the symbiote with rage and bloodlust.
At some point the symbiote joined a group of corrupted Klyntar who used their hosts as chattel, and was labeled as deranged due to its desire to form a single, strong, symbiotic bond with its host and protect them. The symbiote was placed in a prison canister and supposedly condemned to death by disintegration. During the Secret Wars, when several of Earth's heroes and villains were transported to Battleworld by the Beyonder, A meta-human named Wade Wilson went looking for the alien technology Prince Thor Odinson of Asgard had stumbled upon to repair his tattered costume. Instead, he found the machine holding the symbiote captive. The released symbiote did indeed form a "costume" for him - as the species naturally covers their entire host - but Deadpool sensed that it was alive and returned it to its prison, concerned his insanity would adversely affect it. Spider-Man followed shortly afterwards and bonded to it, the symbiote responded to Parker's thoughts by patterning itself after Julia Carpenter's new black and white costume.
The new "costume" had several useful properties - the ability to mimic other forms of clothing, a "dimensional aperture" which could store small objects without adding bulk to the costume, and its own source of webbing - which Spider-Man initially attributed to its alien origins. After returning to Earth, the costume could not stand to be separated from Parker for very long, and it often engulfed the sleeping hero, sending him out to fight crime under its control. The then-villainous Thomas Fireheart - who was fighting Spider-Man at the time - was the first to perceive that the costume's webbing was organic, causing the hero to seek the advice of Reed Richards. Richards isolated the living costume, setting into motion a series of events that would lead to the creation of Venom - the merger of the symbiote and Spider-Man critic Eddie Brock.
Venom proved to be a particularly malicious foe, and broke several laws in pursuit of revenge against Spider-Man. On one occasion, while Brock was incarcerated for his crimes as Venom - and while he patiently waited for the escaped symbiote to free him - he shared a cell with serial killer Cletus Kasady. The symbiote did in fact liberate Brock, but in so doing left behind its spawn. The symbiote spawn bonded with Kasady, turning him into the lethal villain Carnage. Because Kasady bonded with the symbiote on a cellular level. Carnage proved more formidable than either Venom or Spider-Man, and the two eventually formed an uneasy alliance to deal with the threat.
The Carnage symbiote was capable of greater control of its constituent matter than the Venom symbiote. At one point, it managed to travel by telephone line by thinning itself to a strand of cellular width, though Venom replicated this feat to bond with Anne Weying. It could also transform its host's appendages to a greater degree than the Venom symbiote could, allowing Carnage to form spikes, blades, and axe heads at will. The Carnage symbiote appears to be more dense as well, allowing its host to become more durable and stronger than the Venom symbiote would allow. At one point, Venom was captured by the Life Foundation, an organization that made a comfortable living in preparing for the world's nuclear annihilation. Convinced that a nuclear war was inevitable, the Life Foundation's clients payed to assure that the human race and they in particular would survive the cataclysm in luxury. The Life Foundation was at one point researching a way to create "super-cops" to police their new Utopia. Towards that end, they probed the Venom symbiote and extracted the last five of its "seeds" - the basis for later spawn as the symbiotes reproduce asexually. These were cultured and bonded to five of the Life Foundation's best security personnel to form the Guardians.
The individuals eventually became known by the codenames Scream, Riot, Phage, Agony, and Lasher. Either due to the extraction process, the effect of the Earth environment on the spawn, or both, these symbiotes proved to be even more mutated than Carnage. They possessed the same ability to manipulate their forms as Carnage, though the five hosts never quite got the hang of actually communicating with the under-developed symbiote.
After several crushing defeats, Scream had a psychotic breakdown and determined that all symbiotes were evil. She killed off her former compatriots with a sonic blade, not realizing that the symbiotes themselves had survived. The four symbiotes were kept for a time in the Vault, a high-security prison for super-beings, but were freed from the lab by Guardsmen Scott Washington, who decided that they were not evil and did not deserve a lifetime of pain and suffering. Washington was fired when it was discovered that he had freed the symbiotes.
All four symbiotes were weakened, and survived by merging together to form a single, more powerful symbiote. This symbiote later went on to merge with Washington, who had been crippled after a scuffle with the Eazy X gang following his return to the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. After bonding with the hybrid symbiote, he regained use of his legs, and began extracting revenge on the gangs that had destroyed his neighborhood as the crimefighter "Hybrid".
Spider-Man led Brock to doubt the nature of his relationship with his symbiote, suggesting that it had been controlling him. When Brock ordered the symbiote to separate from him so that he could consider the matter, the pained symbiote let out a "psychic scream" of anguish so powerful that it drew others of its kind from space. Using a unwilling innocent as its host, the Venom symbiote and the extraterrestrial symbiotes constructed a portal to an alien world, the native population of which had been enthralled by the symbiotes. The symbiotes then launched a full-scale invasion of Earth, starting in New York.
In the ensuing chaos, Carnage found that he could absorb the symbiotes to increase his Klyntar's mass and power, and temporarily became monolithic in size by doing so. Brock realized that the creatures were highly sensitive to emotion, and released a wail of anguish so great that it was able to kill most of the invading symbiotes. Soon after, the presence of the surviving symbiotes attracted their only known predator, the Xenophage. Xenophages are a race of amorphous, shape-shifting aliens whose diets consist mainly of symbiotes, though they are not above eating the occasional humanoid if they get particularly hungry. The Xenophage took a particular interest in Venom, as symbiotes tend to become more "flavorful" after bonding with a host for a long period of time. Venom managed to dispatch the first Xenophage, though more eventually arrived on Earth to seek out their exotic prey.
During a battle with the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, Venom's tongue was severed. This portion of the symbiote was used to create a duplicate, Mania, which rampaged through an Arctic research facility and military base, pursued by a nanorobotic alien called "the Suit". The clone was revealed to have been programmed by a second nanite alien, Bob, to destroy humanity should it reunite with the original Venom symbiote. The symbiote clone was bonded to Patricia Robertson, and ultimately consumed by the original Venom symbiote. Years later, when Flash Thompson attempted to protect his student Andrea "Andi" Benton from a Jack O'Lantern imposter using the Venom symbiote, it regurgitated the clone in order to purge itself of a demon. The possessed clone bonded to Andi, who defeated Jack O'Lantern and took to calling herself Mania. Looking to avenge her murdered father, Mania used the symbiote clone to fight crime in Philadelphia, but found herself being targeted by Department of Occult Armaments agents Crossbones and Master Mayhem. With the help of Flash Thompson and Mephisto, she was able to defeat them.
Much later, Carnage realized he was also about to spawn. Fearing the spawn would become more powerful than him and disgusted by the notion of reproduction, he resolved to destroy the spawn as soon as it was born. Venom, controlled by the symbiote, also became aware of the spawn and resolved to protect it and culture it as an ally. After the new symbiote was spawned, Carnage was too weak to kill the creature himself, and the symbiote found a human host in officer Patrick Mulligan. Venom had warned Carnage that every thousand generations or so the symbiotes' genetic memory can break down, and the new symbiote must be instructed by its "grandparent" to correct the errors.
Since Venom has not been able to do so, this new symbiote bothered the unfortunate cop with the numerous questions, quandaries, and tantrums that normal children experience as they age. The difference, of course, is that normal children tend to have fewer urges toward homicide. For a while, Mulligan did his best in balancing work, his family life, the difficult new symbiote, and his new career as the crimefighter "Toxin"; however, he was later murdered by Blackheart, who took the symbiote and bonded samples of it to clones of Laura Kinney. The Toxin symbiote was subsequently stolen by the Crime Master and bonded to Eddie Brock. Despite initially seizing control of him in an attempt to kill its grandparent, the Toxin symbiote and Eddie have since worked out a similar relationship to the one Eddie once had with Venom.
Eddie Brock, disgusted by the Venom's growing bloodlust after having a religious awakening and fearing for the fate of his soul, sold the symbiote to Don Fortunato, who gave it to his son Angelo. Disgusted by his cowardice, the symbiote abandoned Angelo of its own accord and later sought out Mac Gargan, more commonly known as the Scorpion. Gargan initially feared the symbiote's growing influence over him after it forced him to commit cannibalism to satiate its hunger, but later came to embrace its bloodlust.
After the events of Brand New Day, Eddie Brock started working for Martin Li and Aunt May at the F.E.A.S.T. center. Thanks to Mr. Li's "mysterious powers", Eddie was cured of his cancer and the remnants of the symbiote were fused to his white blood cells. Unfortunately, the then-current Venom, Mac Gargan, entered the F.E.A.S.T. center looking for Spider-Man, having sensed one of the symbiote's former hosts. He found Eddie instead, and the symbiote immediately attempted to rebond to its former host. However, the mystically-enhanced fusion between the symbiote's cells and Eddie's lymphocytes emerged, forming Anti-Venom, proving corrosive to the original symbiote. Eddie later sacrificed the Anti-Venom symbiote to create a vaccine for the Spider Flu, but it appears a portion of it was somehow acquired by Roderick Kingsley, who enfranchised the identity as one of his "Hob-Heroes" after his Inversion. When Flash discovered that Mania was attacked by Lee Price and her symbiote stolen, he assumed it was the one who separated them in the first place, Eddie Brock. During their battle, Spider-Man attempted to kill Venom and cleanse both hosts through a serum derived from the last surviving piece of Anti-Venom, Flash and his half of the Klyntar turned into an artificial replica of the symbiote, becoming Agent Anti-Venom.
Later, when Carnage was returned to Earth after his apparent death, Hall Industries used the symbiote to produce advanced prostheses. Dr. Tanis Nieves was provided with one after losing one of her arms in an altercation between Hall Industries' Iron Rangers and the Doppelgänger. This biomechanical prosthetic developed into a new machine/symbiote hybrid called Scorn, which Tanis bonded to in order to stop Carnage. Following its separation from Mac Gargan, the Venom symbiote was given to Eugene "Flash" Thompson by the US military, having been administered a sedative to keep it from seizing control of him. Flash later allowed the symbiote to bond to him, and it expressed a preference for him as a host, despite attempting to return to Eddie Brock and later Otto Octavius, using Peter's body to become the Superior Spider-Man. When not suppressed, the symbiote tended to rampage and attempt to eat any nearby enemies, and later exhibited a desire to acquire demonic powers, bargaining with Mephisto to receive a Hell Mark and attempting to absorb Zarathos during the Circle of Four. These ambitions were cut short when it was forced to relinquish those powers to its clone, Mania, after a demon that was implanted in it by Daimon Hellstrom began attempting to take it over.
During Flash's sojourn into space as a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Venom symbiote became increasingly erratic, eventually seizing control of him and rampaging until they were separated, whereupon it took control of numerous members of the Guardians of the Galaxy until it managed to arrive to the destination it was being led to: the original Planet of the , the Guardians were met with the benevolent Klyntar, who revealed to them the true origin of the symbiotes. The Klyntar explained that the reason Venom Symbiote was acting erratic was because as soon as it returned to space, the Klyntar managed to reconnect it to their hive-mind, and it was initially disconcerted until it was drawn closer and a better connection was established, allowing the Klyntar to guide it to their homeworld. Now reconnected with the collective, the Venom symbiote's corruption was repaired and it re-bonded with Flash, making him into a stronger and more pure Agent Venom. Bonding to Mercurio, a Gramosian space pirate, caused the symbiote to temporarily relapse into its villainous ways, though with Flash's help it was able to suppress its rage and malevolent urges.
At some point following his moral inversion, Tony Stark created the "Endo-Sym" armor, which, similarly to the Iron Ranger armor, was made using "building blocks" taken from a symbiote. After Pepper Potts and the Iron Man A.I. attempted to damage the armor with sonic blasts, Stark revealed he had the foresight to find a way to remove that inherited weakness.
Another feral Klyntar, unrelated to Venom's lineage, was captured by Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken and given the moniker "Zzxz". Classified as one of the most dangerous entities the Empire had encountered, it was recruited by Vulcan to serve as one of his praetorian guards and eventually took Raza Longknife as a host. Zzxz was later separated from Raza and imprisoned on Ego. It was retrieved and fired at Charles Xavier of Earth-10011, who had become a giant brain-monster, and was last seen eating him.
A group of evil Klyntar bonded to a swarm of Brood, which they later abandoned and ate, in order to take over the S.W.O.R.D. satellite and everyone aboard it, including Abigail Brand and the pregnant Cal'syee Neramani. The Klyntar were defeated and jettisoned into by space by Spider-Man and the Special Class of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Spider-Man was forced to bond with a symbiote for a power boost, controlling it with the help of the telepathic Martha Johansson, which caused it to take on an appearance identical to the Venom symbiote. He ultimately lost control of it, but it was subdued and separated from him.
How do they know the history of their species you beseech? On the way to a secret government facility, the Mercury Team's war dog, who carried the Hybrid symbiotes was intercepted by an Arkeanian scout and were brought to their planet along with others from other realities and locations in Universe-616 to assist their original mission of finding the ultimate noble warrior. Among those gathered were fused versions of Venom and Carnage, their genetic memory improved to the point that they can replicate all of the powers, knowledge memories of their hosts until separation, the Hybrid Klyntar, Anti-Venom, Scream, Raze, Zzxz, Mania, Scorn, Toxin, and Payback. Through many trial and error, they were individually bonded with many beings of pure and noble heart, but something held them back from true they were missing and how to acquire, neither species did not know. The only one that was able to properly bond was Toxin and a new species of human called a Nobody named Xlynn.
Their recollection of the past was abruptly ended when one of their "allies" the one known as Xlynn took the bonding device along with the vials containing Venom and Carnage brought them forward to two children, an eleven-year old boy and girl. They expected the same result many times before, but were proved surprised to find that both klyntar and human have managed to successfully bond. Since they were now telepathically linked to one another, they were able to hear something about training to fight off a demon god.
Carnage and the girl who calls herself "Ronnie Anne" were the first to square off against the Nobody general. For a child, the girl and the klyntar were moving unexpectedly in sync, however all of them were focused on the boy Venom is bonded to, Lincoln. According to the eldest of their family, his life originally revolved around ten female entities of contrasting age and personality, now his mind is a vast network of countless entities, most of them are species that even they recognize.
Carnage put up a good, honorable fight but you don't win battles just by being "good". When the girl fell, the boy moved to help her up, this was a form of bond they've seen countless humans share among Earth-616. When it was Venom's turn to fight alongside the boy against Xlynn, they fighting so close together it far surpassed what their previous hosts offered. It was as if they were bonded once before.
Venom-Loud managed to fight off against the Xlynn-Toxin duo much longer and better than Ronnie-Carnage did but that luck ran short when she used methods that weekend the klyntar into a weekend state. On their last leg, Lincoln's opponent whispered something into his ear about having no meaning or purpose in life and erasing Ronnie Anne from his heart. That's when they sensed it. The presence that all Klyntar have learned to listen to, emanating from this ash-haired child.
The decision is unanimous. This young human is the perfect candidate to become an Agent of the Cosmos. No, this boy has the potential to become something greater than that. He will reach a level to match that of Bionuva Nui. However, he can't do it alone. They shall lend him his strength, but how? Riot, Lasher, Phage and Agony got the same idea. They were at a time a singular being, but were split apart again. It is time that the Hybrid is reborn.
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