Lethal Protector Part 2 of 2.

Ugh…...what happened? Jason wondered as he got up from the ground. There was derbies all around him, bricks and mortar mostly with a few pipes. His costume wasn't in great shape either, his left lens was cracked from the impact, and the chin of his mask was now scorched off by fire. Wait…..fire? I'm not on fire am I?

Spider-Man looked up in time to have a block of earth slam into his face, he landed on his back with a painful groan and a now bleeding nose. "Ugh…..oh yeah now I remember." he muttered as his attacker came into view up, Standing over him was Korra, covered in the Venom symbiote with her hand reaching towards him and grabbing him by the front of his suit. "Korra, I know that you're in there! You gotta fight it-" he started before Korra slammed him into the ground.

"Fight it? Are you kidding?! This feels great! Why would you ever get rid of this? Why Jason?" she asked, her head tilting too far to the side for a normal neck to do. "Don't you know how much we love you?" she asked, their mixed voices sending a cold chill through the spider hero. This was so wrong in so many ways, this was Korra! One of his best friends and Venom was using her. "What what's this?You and…...Aki?" his heart dropped. Venom knew. She let go of him and howled in laughter, "HOOHOHH SPIRITS! That's ritch! And she doesn't even know, isn't that cute? But that's not the only thing you're keeping from her? IS it?" Venom asked. "She doesn't know that every day, you fear that you'll get her killed, or that how much Rozu was your fault." he said, Jason's anger boiling through his blood. "I wonder if she'll like to hear us?" Jason heard enough from h, he punched Korra in the face as hard as he could. Unlike with Xang, Korra wasn't a hulking mass, so she slammed into the nearby wall.

As she turned to face Jason, his fist slammed into her face and hit her into the wall. "Shut up!" he yelled out as he kept up the assault, he had to forget it was korra in the suit, he had to block out everything that it was Venom was saying and keep hitting it. They Tumbled out onto the street, Venom hitting the side of a car. As Spider-Man lunged at her, a blast of air sent him into the side of a building. As he fell to the ground, his spider sense blared. A pillar rose up to meet him but he caught onto it and balanced himself on it.

"Oooh I really like this one. All the elements and Spider Powers? This is too good." Venom said before grabbing the var she was hit into and throwing it at Jason. The hero leapt overhead where a ball of fire was waiting for him, Jason barely had enough time to raise his arm to block the blaze. His arm was burned with the costume covering it burned off as well. Jason landed on the overturned car. "As much as we would like to finish this, we have better things to do, we'll tell your girlfriend you said 'hi'." Venom said before stomping his foot down on the ground, causing a crack to splinter out towards Jason and to the building they came out of.

Jason went into action, spraying globs of webbing over cracks to try and stabilize the building before it could come apart and collapse, "Come on ! come on! Hold!" he yelled as he covered the last of the cracks in the building. When it finally stabilized, he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. Looking around, he saw that Venom had used the chaos to disappear, "Ok to recap, Venom was lying, surprise, he took over Korra, and now he has all the Avatar's power at his disposal with the soul intent on making my life a living hell. Yeah sounds about right." he muttered as he rested against the overturned car while someone came out of the building.

Jason looked over to see Xang, the former United Forces Soldier looked horrible, his eyes were sunken into his sockets, his skin was pale, and he looked like he lost a few pounds. Jason didn't know if he should be enraged to see him or happy that he no longer had the symbiote on him, "I am going to fucking kill you." Jason growled out as he walked over to him and grabbed Xang by the collar and hoisting him up into the air. He settled on being angry.

"Jason-" the former host started before Jason reeled a fist back, ready to break his nose, "Look! Venom wasn't lying!" he said, making the hero slowly lower his fist, "Venom has another spawn, but he needs a new host!' he explained, Jason's eyes widened as he dropped Xang onto the ground. Venom was going to use Korra as a host to spawn.

Jason ran a hand over his mask, "Ok…..ok, ok ok, how do we stop him? We can't let him make another symbiote." he said as he started walking in circles. As he paced, Xang started coughing, looking over he saw him hunched over, holding himself up by his hands on his knees. His coughing became more violent, blood coughing out of his mouth. "Xang…..what did he do to you?" he asked.

He knew that Xang was, in partial at least, responsible for all that Venom had done. But Venom had added fuel to the fire with Xang's anger for him, if the symbiote had never come into contact with him then Xang and him eventually would have become friends again. And he still hoped that Xang would be able to let go of his hatred.

When he finally stopped coughing, he took a few deep breaths, "Venom…..supported me…for too long I guess…...I need it back." he said as he tried to take a step forward, only for Jason to put a hand on his shoulder. "Get off!" he barked, wanking his shoulder away but stumbling forward as well. "I need it…..I need it back." he whimpered out as Jason kneeled down beside him.

Jason pressed his lips together under his mask, "Xang I need to get you to a hospital, who knows what your body's going through without Venom." he said and he lifted Xang up and pulled him up over his shoulder and sprayed a webline and pulled him up into the air before swinging toward the closest hospital.

When he reached the hospital, Xang was on the verge of consciousness, he was now set up in his own room with a few doctors observing him. He overheard a few of them talking about how Xang showed signs of a drug addict and his body was trying to adjust as though the substance had been ripped out of his body all at once. Jason sat outside his window on the wall, refilling his webshooters, Korra could their apartment right now,but Air Temple Island would be the second place that Venom would look. And with Korra as the host, Venom could just waltz in as her without anyone batting a eye. "Ok think, Venom has Korra and all her bending, so I'm clearly outgunned. I gotta do this smart. I gotta separate Korra from the symbiote before she spawns other symbiote. " he said to himself.

He looked inside the window, Xang was now awake but his ailment was so bad now that he couldn't get out of bed without pain. Sliding the window open, Xang looked over at him before glaring. "What do you want?" he spat out.

"I need to know if Venom has any other weaknesses that electrical currents." Spider-Man said, getting straight to the point. Xang didn't meet his eyes. "Ok enough sympathy, Venom did this to you! You can't even get out of bed without any help, the doctors say it could be months before the effects wear off."

Xang looked at the hero with fury in his eyes. "And it's your fault!" he yelled out, "Venom told YOU to come, he didn't want a new host….he wants what he's always wanted…...he wanted you back." he said, much to Jason's shock. All that time with the symbiote, and it didn't want him as his host. He wanted Jason, and Xang knew that, every day since he came in contact with the symbiote.

"Xang…. I'm sorry…...but that thing? It's a monster, it's an addiction, if it had never let go of you, you could be even worse off than you are now." he said, making the former host look away with a look of sadness on his face. "You said you didn't want to hurt the innocent, but if venom has another spawn who knows how many will suffer? Please…...help me." he asked.

Xang stayed silent for a few moments, "Sound. Loud sounds, like bells. It can't stand them. If you separate him from Korra and keep him away from another host, he shouldn't be able to spawn another symbiote." he said, not daring look Jason in the eye from his bed.

Jason turned and spun a web, "Thank you Xang." he said gratefully before swinging away, leaving the former host in his bed, unable to move without pain.

As Jason swung through the air, his mind went through the layout of the Island, there was a few things he could use, but it meant that he would have to get Venom's attention away from the others. Thankfully, most of the air acolytes had moved to air temples around the time of Harmonic Convergence, so he didn't need to worry about many civilian casualties, and since Venom was most likely heading to their apartment, he could probably get to the island and get his family to safety.

As he swung through an intersection, Jason looked behind him, Of course he could always be tailing me, and not be picked up on my spider sense. He thought as he let go of his webline and landed on top of a phone booth. Dialing the number he pulled the phone out with him onto the roof of the booth. "Hey Akiko-"

'What went wrong?' she asked before he could continue any further.

"...skipping over me asking you how you know things went wrong, could you tell Pema and Tenzin to get the kids and go…..show them the Spirit Wilds." he suggested, Tenzin had shown interest of exploring the new addition to the city, and it wasn't exactly dangerous, just unexplored.

'Ok but what happened?' she asked again. He stayed quiet, 'Jason Orou I swear to the spirits if you do not tell me what went wrong, you will regret it.' she said in an almost motherly like voice, like how a child had broken a window and she knew but he hadn't told her.

"Ok Venom may have ditched Xang and bonded with Korra and she may be on her way to find you guys." he admitted.

Akiko was quiet for a few seconds, but he could hear her muffling a laugh at the news, 'Jason. What. The. SHIT?!' he really wished he just broke some guy's window now. 'Alright, we are going, but Jason…...seriously? I'm stunned by how you are still alive with just how many bad things happen to you. Or me by that extent.' she said, making him smile, 'I mean I love you sweetheart, I love you to death but you have to be cursed or something.' she said before hanging up. Jason smiled, leave it to his girlfriend to find his bad luck so funny.

As he spun a webline and swung on his way, he didn't know that Akiko spent the next few minutes laughing to herself at just how bad her lover's luck was.

Venom was mad, when she found Jason's apartment empty, she wanted to trash the place but she knew that she would just be wasting time. And right now the Avatar was still putting up a fight for control. She was trying to break free, and unlike Jason she didn't have any traumatic experiences to use against her, and those that she did she had conquered long ago. But she also had a anger that put Xang's to shame, it was passionate, charged with other emotions like dressing on a meal. It's first female host was, in a word…...a delicacy.

WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE I SWEAR I WILL RIP YOU APART! Korra yelled within their mind as Korra's body walked up the steps of Air Temple Island. Korra had kept up her fight for control, but it wasn't like any fight she's been in before. It was of will, and she couldn't keep it up forever with the symbiote feeding off her.

Be quiet. It's hard to think with you screaming like that. The symbiote thought back as they reached the top of the stairs. Before Venom could get anywhere close to the house, she was hit in the back of the head by Jason's feet swinging onto her. She got the ground as he swung up on a webline and landed on the wooden gateway.

"Guess you got Korra's reflexes too!" Spider-Man called out tauntingly.

Yeah! Wait…...hey! Korra thought within Venom's mindscape as the symbiote covered her body. Venom leapt forward and somersaulted, making a wheel of fire cover her before kicking her feet out towards Spider-Man. Jason feel back off the gate, quickly connecting a web to the bottom of the gate and swinging into Venom, as they fell, Jason bashed his fist into her face.

They landed on the ground, Jason backflipped off, landing on his hand and feet, "I gotta say I usually don't hit girls but Korra's more man than most girls." he joked as Venom ripped the earth up from the ground, sending Spider-Man up into the air. She fired webline at Jason but he caught it as he landed, yanking it towards him.

Jason uppercutted Venom, sending her into a tree. As Jason leapt at her, she summoned a Earth wall up, Spider-Man landed on the flat surface before her first hit him through the wall before grabbing him and pulling him through it and bashing him into the tree she was knocked into before throwing him through the air.

"Ugh….that the best you got? You hit like a girl." Jason grumbled out before a pillar of earth hit him in the chest. While airborne he was basted with fire, sending him through the paper wall of the house and into the kitchen. Ok no more girl jabs.

When Venom stepped through the hole in the wall, Jason looked around…

"Damn it I can't resist. In the kitchen where you be-UGH!" he started before he was grabbed by the face and bashed repeatedly into the floor, wall, and ceiling like a child with a doll.

"You wanna say that again?" Venom asked, holding Jason's face up to her's his mask torn with his hair sticking out and his cracked left lense now broken completely. Jason looked over her shoulder, seeing a assortment of pots and pans. Fronting a web at the metal pans, he pulled them towards the back of Venom's head, the impact doing nothing but the noise making her let out a shrill screech and drop Jason. Venom stumbled back, Jason reached out and grabbed the metal pans before hitting them together. "GRRRAAAHHHHH IT'S LIKE ONE DRILL IN MY EARS AND THEY BOTH MEET IN THE MIDDLE!" Venom screamed as Spider-Man started hitting the pans against the countertops and each other.

Jason kept the noise going, his ears were starting to ring but if it hurt Venom? He could deal with it for a tried to cover her ears, but the noise was too much, she fell onto the ground and the symbiote's grip on Korra began to slip. Korra's eyes suddenly glowed brightly and blasted the black goo off her with airbending, Korra gasped loudly, finally able to breathe on her own.

Jason kneeled down beside her, patting her back as she coughed, "It's ok, you're ok." he said reassuringly as Korra started to breathe deeply, "You are ok right?" he asked before Korra punched him, hard. "GAH! Why?!" he asked.

Korra was clearly pisssed off at him, "IN THE FUCKING KITCHEN? HITS LIKE A GIRL HUH?! ANYTHING ELSE?!" She yelled at Jason, her voiced now mixed with that of the other avatars as her white eyes glared at him so hard that he was considering cowering away for his own safety. He didn't know if this anger was from Korra, or from having the symbiote removed from her the way it had been.

"...I'm very glad that you are not covered in goo…..oh my god the slime!" he said, looking around to see the black slime was trying to gather back together on the countertop. Grabbing a large pot, James scooped up the symbiote in it and crushed the lid closed as much as he could with his bare hands. He held the bent top out to Korra, sparking a pointed flame at the top, she fused the top metal together so that it couldn't escape. Just for extra measure he webbed the pot in a thick cocoon. He let out long breath before setting the pot down and laying against the countertop along with Korra, "So….you were Venom…...how'd you like it?" he asked.

Korra slid her legs out and plopped on the ground, she was still recovering from having the symbiote removed from her. "It sucked…..I kinda saw some…...personal stuff." she admitted. Venom had exposed her to man of Jason's bad memories, his mother dying, Detective Wei sacrificing himself, Verrick throwing Akiko off the bridge was the worst one. But she also felt all the emotions that Jason felt when he went through them, "I think you may have a anxiety problem." she said.

"Ehhh who doesn't?" he said with a shrug.

Korra looked sadly at her friend, in a weird way she felt closer to Jason. She literally knew everything he did, she knew that when he first had Pema's wheatcakes he didn't like them but kept eating them because he knew she worked hard to make them. She knew that sometimes he'll swing by his old apartment and reminisce off his time with his mother. She knew that he visited her grave every chance he got. Or one of her favorite was that when he and Akiko were laying in bed late at night ad he would simply hold her and think of reasons he loves her.

"...your mom was beautiful." she said, making Jason look at her in shock. She smiled at him at him, "And Akiko will say yes when you ask her to marry you. If she doesn't I will tell her about that late night cuddle thing you do." she said, making the spider hero blush under his mask.

"Your making this weird. Don't make it weird."

"It's adorable." Korra cooed, poking him in the shoulder.

"One more word and I will web your mouth shut." Jason threatened. Korra simply hummed happily to herself.

By the time the family had gotten back to the island, Jason and Korra managed to patch up the damage they had caused. The couple and Avatar now had the webbed pot in the kitchen, "I swear I'll get Pema a new pan." Akiko said, poking the webbing to see if the symbiote could get out of the cocoon. "So what's the plan? We gave it to Ren Reeds last time but that didn't work out. She said, thinking to when Jason first got the suit off him and she had to give him a change of clothes. "Maybe we can give it to S.H.I.E.L.D? They could find something to do with it." she suggested.

Jason stared at the looked at the prison he had made for the symbiote, "Xang said that this thing had….feelings for me." he said, making everyone look at him questionably, "I'm not saying that excuses what it's done. But this thing has done what it has done out of anger towards me." he said. Akiko saw the guilt in his eye, she reached her hand over to his and gave it a squeeze. "I'll give it to Statish, the webbing should last all night with how much I used. Should give him more than enough time to find out what to do with it." he said.

Akiko pursed her lips together, "What about Xang? He still in the hospital right?" she asked. Jason nodded, she looked at the symbiote prison, this thing caused so much damage to her life that she wanted nothing more than to see it wither and die. But what about Xang? Was he to blame as well? "I'm going to go see him tomorrow…." she said, Jason looked over, biting his lip, in his current state Xang was not dangerous, but he just hoped Akiko knew what she was getting into.

Jason grabbed the webbed pot and gave Akiko a kiss, "I'll be back in a bit, meet you home?" he asked.

She smiled, "See you in bed." she said, giving him a playful wink before chuckling as he blushed. Korra snickered as well as ason went to drop off the villain. "So just out of curiousity, what was it like?" she asked the avatar.

Korra looked at Akiko as she smiled, her arms crossed over her chest expectantly, she felt her cheeks redden. "What? It couldn't have been…..that…" Akiko started before she slowly began to realize why she was blushing. If she had seen all of Jason's memories….including wwhen the two of them…

"You saw us naked together didn't you?" she asked bluntly, aking the Avatar's face go a even deeper shade of red. Akiko covered her moth, trying to muffle the squeaks of laughter she was trying to contain, "HAHAHAHAHAAA! Oh my god, isn't this like the second time too?" she asked.

"WHAT? No it isn't the-OH SPIRITS IT IS!" she yelled in horror as she gripped the sides of her face. The first time was purely by accident, Akiko and Jason had reunited after the Anti-Bending revolution and were…...celebrating in the attic where his room used to be. However at the same time Korra and the others had just returned from the South Pole and she walked in on the pair.

Akiko was smiling ear to ear as Korra groaned, "Korra i'm really flattered but I'm very happy with Jason….as I'm sure you know." she said sly, making Korra glare at her. "Tell you what, i won't give this juicy information to Jason for future reference if you do a favor for me." she asked.

"Name it," Korra said with no hesitation whatsoever while Akiko grinned wildly.

Jason and Akiko stood outside the room that Xang had occupied. He had turned the symbiote over to Tobi Statish, and he in turn gave it to Fury to deal with. Jason had insisted that he accompany Akiko to the hospital to see their recently freed friend, "I'll be out here. If something happens, just call out ok?" he said.

Akiko nodded before walking inside, closing the door behind her she saw Xang laying in bed. Jason told her that he didn't look all that good, she didn't expect him to look starved. He bent his head up to see Akiko give him a small smile of reassurance. "Hey…." she greeted, walking over to hr old friend and taking a seat in the chair beside her bed.

"Hey…..so why are you here?" Xang asked, last time he saw her was when her father had been turned into Carnage. It wasn't until he saw how many bodies Carnage was dropping did he realize what he had done. And like how Jason had guilt over his mother, he had the same guilt for Carnage.

Akiko pursed her lips together, "I'm here because you were one of my best friends. Because I know that symbiotes change you. You're not Venom." she said, making the former host's face grow hard. "Your Xang, the jock headed jerk that we know and loved. You're the guy who was there for Jason after his mom died, you went out of your way to be his friend." she said , reminding him of their highschool days, "Venom is a monster. And Xang isn't a monster. My friend is not a monster." she said, her eyes staring into his with determination.

"...Aki I never meant to hurt you. I just….I was angry. At Jason yeah but…...Amon took my bending away, the UF wouldn't take me back, and I didn't have a hoeme." he explained, shifting so that he was more upright in posture. "And when I was bonded to Venom it all….felt better, that anger turned to something else….and all it did was fuel my anger until I was nothing but that." he explained.

Akiko felt her lips tug into a smile, "It doesn't need to be that Xang. We know the Avatar, she already agreed to help your bending back once you're better." she said, making the former host look at her with a small gracious smile.

"Aki…...thank you…...so much….." he said.

"No problem. For the record however, I' gonna deck you when you get out of here. Just so we're even." she added, "First step out of here? Wham!" she said, smacking her hands together for emphasis. Xang merely blinked, "Look I need to go but next time I come by i'll bring chocolates…...for me, not for you." she said as she got up from her seat and walked out of the room. Outside, Jason was leaning against the wall. As they left, Xang laid in bed,processing what just happened.

"Did…...did I just get threatened? Or did I make up with my friend? Or both?"

AN: And with that, the Lethal Protector saga is closed, yeah I know you all wanted more Venom Avatar but like Spider-Carnage it was not a long lived symbiote. But this is not the end of Venom, not by a long shot. Now I'm sorry this chapter was not a long as the other one an I'm sorry for that, next one will be better you have my word. Until Next time guys.