The door flung open to reveal the Black Demons standing in the doorway. They scanned the room to find a seemingly empty castle.

"Where are they?" Joey asked as he looked around the empty room.

"Not here, obviously." Jackie laughed sarcastically.

"Hey, shut-up, flamer."

"Computer geek."

"Fagot!"

"Retard!"

"Shut-up!" Venom yelled, looking back at them with fearsome eye's, the two immediately stopped talking and bowed their heads as if they two were kids who were being lectured by a parent. He looked around the room, looking for any signs of life. Venom sniffed the air. "We are not alone." he informed his team as he kept his eye's focused on a dark hallway directly in front of him. "Where is the rest of the White Dragons, Zach?"

"Don't worry about them." Zach said dolefully as he stepped into the light.

"Whoa, I like the hair." Niki called out. Zach didn't even look at her. He kept his gaze focused on Venom with deep hatred in his glazed and blood-shot eye's"

"All you need to worry about is me and you." Zach spoke with only one thing on his mind, revenge. "Fight me, one-on-one. No one else to distract us, only you and me in a fight to the death."

"And what is stopping me from just having my entire team attack you and ending this quickly so that I can go and find the rest of your friends and dispose of them?" Venom crossed his arms in defiance and stared down at him from his position at the top of the stairs with a golden gleam in his eye's.

"You said that you lived by the sword, the life of honor, well this is an honorable battle to the death. Two men begin and one man ends, that is the way of the sword." Zach stared up at him, hoping his plan would work.

"Come on, lets kill this asshole." Jackie said as his hair caught fire and he took a step down from the stairs.

"Halt" Venom demanded. Jackie did as he was told, stepped backwards and his hair returned to normal. Venom threw off his over-coat and untied his belt, placing his sword and sheath down on top of his coat. "You want a fight to the death," Venom got into his battle stance and looked Zach in the eye's "then let us begin."

With that, Zach charged at Venom with electricity pulsing around his fists. Zach jumped in the air and threw down a bolt of lightning but Venom mearly side-stepped it and jumped backwards. The second Zach touched the ground he shot straight for Venom and began throwing punches wildly at him but he was dodging and side-stepping all of them with ease. Venom suddenly punched Zach hard in the face and followed with an even harder hit to his stomach then jumped in the air to give him a hard kick to the side of his mouth that knocked him on the ground. Zach jumped up and charged at him again while screaming a loud battle cry. Venom jumped over him and kicked him in the back again as Zach ran under him, causing him to lose balance and fall hard on his face.

Venom landed with grace and stared down at Zach. "Just face it, you cant win." Venom watched as Zach dragged himself to his feet and charged at him once again. Venom did the same thing as before and just dodged all of Zach's wild fists with little effort. Venom finally side-stepped one of his punches and Zach lost his balance and hit the ground. "Do you honestly think you can beat me?" Zach did not reply, he only pulled himself back to his feet and began shooting lightning bolts at Venom. Venom began running at Zach, jumping to the left and right to dodge the random bolts lightning. He jumped into the air, donkey kicked off of Zach's face and did a flip in the air, only to land and charge at Zach with a barrage of punches. Venom ended the barrage of fists with an uppercut to the chin then a kick to the stomach that sent Zach flying back into the ground. "Come on Zach, your slower than me and it looks as if you haven't been getting much sleep so your even more sluggish than usual. Besides, even if you do somehow manage to beat me, my team wont just let you walk out of here alive." Zach staid on the ground, panting and sweating heavily. "Just give up you cant win."

"I don't care if I live or die here today." Zach managed to spit out between breaths as he dragged himself to his feet. He spit some blood out of his mouth and continued. "As long as I kill you!" he screamed as he shot a powerfull lightning bolt at Venom, who merely moved his body out off the way and looked back at the lightning as it shot threw the wall behind him. As soon as Venom turned his head back to Zach he punched Venom hard in the face and began unleashing a powerful barrage of fists that knocked Venom back and into the wall. Before Zach could punch again Venom ducked and jumped upwards, punching Zach hard in the chin. He landed directly behind him and, before Zach could fall backwards, Venom jumped up and kneed the back of his head and then fell down to eye level with Zach to deliver a spin kick to Zach's cheek. As Zach staggered backwards, trying to regain his footing, Venom jumped just within arms length of him then side-stepped before Zach had a chance to react and punched him hard in the face. Zach fell to the ground and slid a little on his side.

"You've got a lot of heart, I will give you that." Venom told Zach as he watched him try, in vain to get back up. "I'll tell you what, because I like your spirit, I'll give you one last chance to join me." Venom kneeled down on one knee in order to get eye level with his opponent. "Think about it, you will have women, money, and best of all, more power than you could ever imagine. Look at The Inferno, before I came along he could barely control sparks and now he has more control over fire than he knows what to do with. Speaking of Inferno, did you know that he has a book of demonic spells, and I think there might even be a resurrection spell or two in there." Zach suddenly looked up at Venom with hate in his eye's "We may be able to bring her back, you know. All you have to do is join us and you can rule the entire world with Kristen back by your side." Venom stood up and offered a helping hand down at Zach. "What do you say, Zach, do we have a deal."

Zach staggered back to his feet, looking down at Venom as the hate in his eye's grew to a passionate flame inside of him which showed vibrantly in his voice as he spoke. "I would never join you, not for anything in the world. Even if you could bring Kristen back, she wouldn't want to live in a world ruled by a tyrant and neither do I."

"Zach, what do you have to lose, your wife is dead, this castle cant take much more of these brutal battles and all your friends have deserted you. Face it, you have nothing to live for…" Venom smiled under his mask as he watched the hatred in Zach's eyes be replaced with great sadness. "…your completely alone."

"That is where your wrong." a voice boomed from the door way.

The entire room turned to see William standing at the door with Jessy and Brian standing right behind him. Zach's face lit up, and Venom's eye's darkened with animosity.

"He may be an asshole, and an ugly son of a bitch at that, but he will never be alone, not as long as I'm alive." William called out.

"Demons!" Venom called, "destroy them!" with that the Black Demons jumped toward the trio and began to battle fiercly. Venom turned back to face Zach but his cheek met with Zach's fist which sent him flying backwards and into the ground. Venom jumped to his feet to see a revitalized Zach surging with electricity. Zach ran at Venom, his muscles charged with electricity to give him increased speed and began punching at him with much more accuracy and precision than he had had before but Venom was still dodging them. Venom suddenly side-stepped a punch and flung one of his own but, to his surprise, Zach pulled his face out of the way just in time to dodge the attach and cause Venom to lose his balance. Zach took the opportunity and punched Venom hard in the stomach and lifted him into the air so that he could slam him back into the ground. Zach then picked Venom up by the back of his shirt and placed his hand on his chest, sending a huge charge of electricity into his body which shot him into the air. Zach pursued his opponent into the air and shot him with a bolt of lightning that slammed Venom back into the ground then forced electricity out of the ground to bring Venom right back up so that he could punch him into the wall. Venom fell from the wall toward the ground but was hit with several bolts of lightning before he finally met the ground. As Venom brought himself to his hands and knees, Zach kicked him through the wall and into another room, Zach followed but couldn't see through the newly formed cloud of smoke. Zach suddenly started shooting random bolts of electricity from his body until he saw one of them make contact with a moving target, Zach shot the target to find that it was a vase that Venom had flung at him. Zach turned just in time to watch Venom's foot hit him right between the eye's. Zach let go of his pounding face to look around the empty room. Zach walked through the hole in the wall and looked around but saw no sign of Venom, only the battle raging on around him. Venom suddenly dropped from the wall behind Zach and jumped over him to deliver a devastatingly powerful kick to Zach's stomach, knocking the wind out him as he fell to the ground. As Zach tried to catch his breath Venom picked him from the ground by his hair and started punching him with a series of hard punches until he was backed into the opposite wall. Venom then kicked him in the chest, right through the wall, sending Zach rolling backwards. Venom jumped up and attempted to drop his foot down on Zach's head but he caught Venom's foot and threw him into the wall. Before Zach could even stand all the way up Venom was already punching him again until he was back in the main living room. Venom ended the punches with a hard palm to Zach's chest.

Zach stared up at Venom and heard him growl ominously threw the mask. That is when Zach realized that this man was an animal and he could not beaten with just his fists. He would have to use his mind along with his powers to win this fight. Zach stayed on the ground, knowing that it was against the way of the sword to strike an opponent while they are down, and focused on a plan of action. Zach stared at Venom with a burning intensity until everything began to blur. Suddenly everything in the room grew dark accept for the people. He looked around and noticed that everything in the room had a unique glow to them and he suddenly realized what was happening and he thought of a brilliant plan.

"Get up!" Venom demanded. Suddenly Zach's eye's began to glow white and Venom watched as everyone in the room, including himself, let out a small spark of electricity that Zach drew into his own body. "What the hell?" Venom asked as him and everyone else in the room watched Zach intently, trying to comprehend what had just happened. Zach suddenly jumped to his feet and his body began to glow with the same white light as his eye's.

"Guy's get over here!" Zach called out to all his friends as an orb of swirling electricity formed around his body. The White Dragons all three jumped over to him but stopped when they reached the edge of the orb. "Get in here!" he screamed. They looked at each other then back at the orb. "just trust me, it wont hurt you."

Brian and William suddenly remembered how hard he tried to kill William a few days ago and were reluctant to step in. Jessy suddenly closed her eye's and started to step into the orb.

"Jessy, stop!" they screamed simultaneously but it was to late, she was already inside it. The electricity began to strike her wildly but it had no affect. She looked back at the two of them with a comforting smile across her face. William and Brian took one last reluctant look at one another then closed their eye's and stepped in. The electricity was striking all three of them but it had no affect on any of them.

Venom looked at the orb suspiciously but before he could react Jackie ran straight for it. As soon as he stepped foot inside the orb he was shocked violently and shot backwards. Joey, Nikki, and Guy all burst out laughing while Venom continued to watch the orb.

"What is this?" Venom asked suspiciously, keeping his eye's on the orb.

"Amazing, isn't it?" Zach smiled arrogantly. "You see, everyone has a unique electronic signature and I've created an orb of electricity that focuses on electronic signatures. I gathered samples of everyone's electronic signatures and made sure that it distinguishes between all of us and all of you." the orb suddenly began to grow. "Now I suggest you leave before this orb consumes you and all of your team mates."

Venom jumped backwards and grabbed his sword, then he watched Zach struggle to increase the size of the orb. A sinister smile crossed his face as he watched the orb grow slowly.

"Stay here." Venom ordered as he began to walk towards the orb. The other members of his team suddenly stopped laughing and watched as their leader stopped right at the edge of the wall of electricity.

Zach looked at Venom with a gleam in his eye "Go ahead, I dare you." he said with a smile on his face.

The smile faded as Venom charged into the orb and the electricity began attacking him fiercely. Multiple streams of electricity wrapped around his body as the intensity of the pain brought him to his knees. Zach's face twisted into a look of horror as Venom stood back up and began walking slowly toward him. He was moving with his sword in front of his face like a shield but it was doing him no good so he threw it out of the orb and continued walking. Venom's shirt suddenly caught fire and he ripped it off and began moving faster.

The arrogant smile returned to Zach's face as he watched burn marks form on Venom's skin where the lightning was striking. Zach then abandoned the orb and concentrated on Venom's signature, but Venom just began to move faster. Venom got about five feet from him when his mask caught fire and he dropped to his knees as he struggled to get it off. He suddenly ripped of the burning mask and threw it into Zach's face. The electricity dissipated as he tried rip the burning mask from his face. As soon as the burning mask was off of his face and the singed hairs were put out he glared at Venom's now completely exposed face.

All four of The White Dragons stared at his face as Venom glared back. Venom bared his teeth to reveal extremely sharp canine's and ripped away his gloves to reveal his sharp claws that extended from his finger tips. Venom suddenly charged at Zach and began ripping away at Zach's flesh with his now exposed claws. Jessy reacted quickly by shooting a giant burst of wind that knocked him back into the wall.

The White Dragons continued staring at him, trying to figure out why he looked so familiar to all of them.

"What are you all staring at?" Venom growled. Even his voice sounded familiar without the mask on, it wasn't as deep and it didn't seem as evil and foreboding as before. "I'm not wearing my mask any more, so what." he stood up and glared at all of them and then looked at his team mates who where also staring at him in a confused manner. "What is everyone staring at, is it the scars, the dog tags around my neck, what is it?" he screamed out in frustration. "You want me to do a trick, here!" he held up his middle finger toward everyone in the room. "Ta-dah!"

"It cant be!" Zach rubbed his eye's and squinted, not believing what his own eye's were seeing. "It just cant be!"

"What?" Jessy asked confused.

"Ya, what?" Venom demanded.

Zach stared for another second or two before Brian answered the question for him.

"Travis!?" Brian asked, but as soon as he said it he was sure of it. Venom looked exactly like their good friend who was believed to had died five years ago.

Venom suddenly gave him the same bewildered look as he was receiving. "How do you know that name?"

"What do you mean how do we know that name!?" Brian screamed. "We grew up together, you were our friend!"

"What are you talking about?" Venom replied in confusion. "I've never seen any of you before a few months ago?"

"Liar!!" Brian screamed as his aura suddenly flared up and his eye's began to give of an ominous golden glow.

"There is no way that is Travis, its just some guy who looks like him." Jessy said, trying to convince herself more then anyone else.

"Look at him Jessy!!" Brian screamed down at her. The ground began to shake underneath his power as his rage grew. "TRAITOR!!!!" he screamed violently as his golden glow shifted to blood red along with his aura.

Venom watched as The White Dragons all became enraged and their power levels grew along with their rage. "Demon's attack!" he screamed down at them and they reacted. He jumped over to his sword and retied it to his waist but before he could act Brian had already knocked Jackie out of the way and was flying straight at him. Brian stopped just within arms reach and began swinging wildly at him. Venom had trouble dodging them as Brian's speed constantly increased. Brian finally landed a devastating punch to Venom's stomach and didn't stop punching until he hit a little to hard and knocked Venom into a wall. Brian pursued but Venom had already jumped to his feet and was able to dodge the first punch, grab Brian and slam him into the wall. Venom side-stepped just in time to dodge a lighting bolt to his back and then jumped into the air and off the wall. He spun to dodge another lightning bolt only to be slammed into the ground by a powerful gust of wind. Venom spiraled into the air to dodge an orb of energy but was caught by the force of the explosion and flung into the wall once again. Venom spun to bound off the wall and doge another ball of energy only to meet William in the air who punched him back to the stone floor beneath him. Before William could land with another attack Venom jumped backwards, only to meet a lightning bolt to the middle of his back. William then knocked him back into the air where he met Brian, who began striking him wildly before a fire ball hit Brian in the stomach. Instead of falling back to earth a huge blast of air bashed him against the ceiling and he managed to dodge a few lightning bolts as he fell before another blast of wind imbedded his body into the earth.

Venom pulled himself out of the ground to see Zach ready to strike him again but Joey jumped in between them and punched Zach hard in the face. Zach recovered quickly and returned the punch, but much harder and followed with a crushing kick to his chest, that dented Joey's metallic rib cage into his body and sent him flying backwards. Venom watched as Joey staggered slowly back to his feet then venom had to jump out of the way of, yet another, golden orb. He landed gracefully a few feet away just to see Brian and William charging at him but a giant wall of earth shot up between them. Brian flew over the wall and continued to fly at Venom until Jackie jumped in front of him and punched him hard in the face with a fist full of white fire. Brain stopped himself in mid air and shot back at Jackie and pummeled him with a series of shattering punches that ended with him uppercuting Jackie into the air only to see Venom punch Brian down into the ground. Venom then jumped up and kicked William in the face to stop his charge and delivered a spin kick before falling back to the ground. Venom jumped up, uppercuting William hard, but before he could come down on him with a bone-crushing kick, he was struck by lightning and shot out of the air. Venom rolled on the ground until he threw himself back into the air and spun to dodge another lighting bolt and spiraled downward with a kick to knock the energy orb back at Brian. Before Venom could fling the orb he had just caught at Zach another huge gust of wind slammed him into the ceiling and the second ball that Brian had thrown exploded in his hand.

As Venom fell to the ground he watched as Joey tried in vain to fight Zach with the gigantic dent in his chest, Nikki had been knocked out by William after she tried to freeze his feet and Jackie and guy were both showing great fatigue from trying to stop four different enemy's almost single-handedly. Venom then landed on the ground and quickly searched his mind to try and devise a plan.

"We cant win like this." Venom thought aloud as he watched Guy get knocked to the ground and struggle to pull himself to his feet while pulling up chunks of earth to buy himself some time. "That's it!" he thought aloud once again as he stared down at his sword and it suddenly began to glow a bright crimson red color. Venom's face twisted into a painful growl as his body began to glow with the same crimson red as his sword. His eye's shot open to reveal the ominous blood-red glow as he bared his teeth and his fists opened up to show his growing claws. His fingers curled, his body tensed up, his muscles grew, and the ominous glow became even more vibrant as the power of the demonic blade surged threw his body. Venom's teeth all suddenly sharpened to a fine point and his claws grew longer as he let out a thunderous roar that caught the attention of everyone in the room. "RAGH!!!" the ground shook beneath the power of his fierce roar as his aura shot upward and red lighting began to arc off of his body.

"Your in for it now." Guy smirked, looking back at Zach who was standing right behind him. "Its time for you to find out why they call us the Black Demons." he then looked back up at Venom who was grabbing his pounding skull with both hands and screaming in agony.

Venom suddenly stopped screaming and dug his claws into his own scalp tying to find some relief from the pain. He clenched his fist and began shaking violently as his aura shrank and his entire body began to glow bright red. His muscles pulsed and grew as the glow became more vibrant.

"What's happening to him?" Jessy asked as she watched the frightening transformation.

"He is drawing power from his sword and its manipulating his body to make it more suitable for the raw power that the sword can offer." Jackie explained as they all stared up at Venom in amazement. "it's a marvelous thing to behold." he looked down at Jessy and smiled darkly "if it wasn't the last thing you where going to see, that is."

Jessy shot him a dirty look and then continued to watch Venom.

Venom suddenly clutched his fists together and roared as he slammed them on the ground, creating a large explosion of red demonic energy. The entire room shielded their eye's from the blinding light and the debris from the explosion and then watched as the smoke began to clear. Venoms shaded form appeared in the smoke and the White Dragons watched in dismay as Venom's form became more clear.

The smoke finally cleared to reveal the monster that it kept hidden. Venom's claws, hair and even skin were as pitch black as the white of his eye's, which were just as black as the small pupil in the center of his crimson iris. A dark smile crept across his face to reveal his beastly teeth and he let out a malicious chuckle that sent a shudder down Jessy's spine and sent a wave of fear through the entire room, even his own team was a little frightened by Venom's very presence.

"Come on," Venom spoke in a daunting bellow. "come at me now." he challenged. No one in the room moved, they just looked at each other hesitantly, still not sure on what to make of this new form. "What, don't tell me your scared." he said with a malicious smile across his face.

"Why we would we be scared of a traitorous little shit like you!?" Brian called out with new found confidence. He looked back at his comrades with a reassuring look in his eye's and then glared back at Venom. Brian clenched his fists and put energy into his arms to give him an extra boost of speed. "DIE!!" he screamed as he shot off like a bullet at Venom with his fists at his side, ready to strike with either one. Brain started punching wildly at Venom but he dodged all of them with little effort, then moved to the side and Brian fell forward. He quickly turned around and flew back at Venom and swung his fist but Venom caught it. Venom began crushing his fist but before Brian could react Venom kneed him in the stomach, knocking the breath out of him, then punched him in the face causing Brian to fly off to the side and slide painfully across the ground. Venom turned to see a lightning bolt shooting toward him; he merely widened his malicious smile and caught the electricity in his hand and threw it to the ground, where it dissipated into the earth.

Zach couldn't believe what he had just seen but he shook the look of amazement off his face and charged a bigger bolt of electricity and shot it at his adversary. Venom held his palm out and the lightning struck it but he just held out his other hand toward William, who was charging at him from the side, and shot it at him by absorbing the lightning and sending the electricity through his chest and into his other hand. The electricity hit William hard in the face, but before he could recover Venom was charging hard at him only to be slowed down by a huge gust of wind. Venom easily shot out of the concentrated blast of air and landed right in front of Jessy and he punched her hard enough in the face to throw her about ten feet backwards. Zach began to retaliate but Venom was already right in front of him. Zach punched down at him but Venom side stepped and grabbed Zach's throat, digging his claws deep into his skin and began pumping large amounts of poison into his body.

Zach was stunned for a few seconds before he knocked Venom's hand off of him and punched him hard in the face. Venom jumped back and gave Zach a confused look, Zach used Venom's confusion as an opportunity and shot a lightning bolt at him. Venom side stepped the lightning only to be uppercut into the air by William and met in the air by Brian, who knocked him back to the earth where William waited. William went to kick him while he was down but he jumped up and kicked Brian out of the air and dropped down right in front of William with his back facing him. Venom then threw his elbow back hard into William's stomach and William bent down so Venom punched him in the chin and jumped into the air so that he could kick William's face back down into the dirt. Venom landed on Williams back and jumped toward Zach, punching him extremely hard in his stomach then in the cheek.

Venom walked over to Zach who lie motionless on the ground. He roared down at him and then reared back his claws and prepared to strike. Zach opened his eye's and grabbed Venom's leg and began to send huge amounts of electricity surging through his body. Venom roared in pain for a second before he kicked Zach in the face and stepped on his arm and began to crush it until he let go. Zach let go just in time to allow Venom to be sent flying backwards by William punching him in the face. Venom was suddenly slammed into the ceiling by a burst of wind and then hit hard threw the ceiling, into the next floor, by a orb of positive energy exploding on his chest. Brian pursued him into the room only to be punched in the face as soon as he got threw the hole in the floor. Venom then knocked him downwards followed by grabbing on to the hole and flipping into it so he could kick off the ceiling, shooting him downward towards Brian. Brain hit the ground before he did and rolled out of the way before Venom could stomp on his body. Venom went to pursue him but he had to jump backward before William hit him, he then retaliated by punching William hard in his face and then he began tearing at his skin with his razor sharp claws. Venom ended the series of powerful slashes with a hard kick that sent William staggering backwards and he shot at Brian, who had brought himself back to his feet, and started doing the same thing to him. Venom let drops of toxin seep from the tips of his claws and got ready to strike Brian again but he suddenly jumped to the side in order to dodge a lightning bolt, causing it to hit Brian hard. Venom charged at Zach with his claws reared back and got ready to kill him with ease but a blast of wind knocked him on to the ground. Venom got to his feet and jumped toward Jessy. He punched her hard in the face and then kicked her in the stomach, knocking her unconscious as he sent her rolling across the hard stone floor. Venom then shot back at Brian with his claws reared back.

Guy, Jackie and Joey all watched in aw as Venom continued to take on all of the White Dragons by himself.

"Should we help him?" Guy asked not daring to take his eye's off of his leader.

"No, The sword's power robs him of his humanity and makes him fight like an animal until the enemy is defeated or until his body cant take it any longer and finally gives out." Joey explained.

"And what happens then?" Jackie asked

"I'm not sure, he could be fine or it could kill him, he has never had to do this for anything except training his body. But I do know that if we jump in right now he might not be able to distinguish friend from foe." Joey continued as he watched Venom easily dodge Brian's fists.

Venom grabbed Brian's wrist and broke his arm by punching his elbow. Brian yelled in pain and Venom prepared to slit his throat with his claws but Zach punched him in the mouth before he could make the final slash. Venom smiled as he wiped the blood from his lips and then ran at Zach. Zach dodged Venom's first punch and tried to hit him in the side but Venom quickly jumped backwards and then back toward him with a hard kick to his chin.

"Hey!" a booming voice called out before Venom could begin another attack. Venom looked up at William and growled. "You want to kill someone, then kill me!" William yelled down at Venom.

Venom looked up at him and then looked around at the enemy's around him and suddenly regained some of his lost humanity. Jessy was unconscious, Brian had a broke arm, and Zach had almost no energy at all, He knew that William was the only real threat to him anymore. A dark smile crept across Venom's face as his body began to glow blood-red yet again. He stared at his hand as it began to shake violently and all the red glow flowed into his hand, symbolizing all the demonic energy in his body flowing into his open palm. As soon as he had focused all his power into his open palm he clinched his fist and winced in pain then looked up at William who was standing there with a cocky smile on his face.

"Bring it on, little man." William smirked. Venom took his advice and began sprinting toward William with incredible speed and ferocity. Venom jumped in the air a few feet away from William and came down swinging the fist that he had gathered all his energy and slammed it into Williams face, causing an explosion of red light that blinded everyone in the room.

Guy watched as the smoke cleared to reveal Venom holding his limp arm, cringing in pain, and breathing heavily. His body had returned to its normal small, light skinned, red eyed, black haired, self. Guy then shifted his eyes toward William who lie unconscious a few feet away from Venom. Guy started to smile in triumph but his triumphant joy was ripped away when Zach suddenly wrapped his arm around his neck and slammed his open palm into the small of Guy's back, releasing a massive amount of electricity into his his body.

Zach released Guy's limp body and let it fall to the ground. Jackie hesitated in confusion for a few seconds before attaching Zach with a small fire ball that Zach just dodged and retaliated with a hard punch to Jackie's face that sent him soaring through the air. Jackie quickly spun in the air just in time to dodge Zach's fist and kick him hard in the side then shoot him in the back with a blast of flames. Zach fell to the ground, wincing in pain and Jackie flew towards him, but was hit hard in the side by a ball of exploding energy. Before Brian could charge another ball of energy Joey punched him in the jaw and followed with a hard uppercut. Joey went to punch Brian once again but Brian caught his fist and charged energy into it, causing it to explode violently. Joey tried to kick him in his broken arm but his reaction time was to slow and Brian dogged and shot him in the face with another ball of energy, ripping away some of the artificial flesh from his face to reveal his mechanic endoskeleton.

Jackie punched at Zach, his fist blazing with white fire, but Zach just side stepped and shot him in the back with a bolt of lightning.

Venom watched the battle taking place before him and examined himself to realize that there was no way they could win. Joey had been severely damaged when Zach kicked him in the chest and he was moving to slow to fight Brian or Zach, Jackie was tired and bruised from his fight with William and was no match for either of them and Venom himself had ripped apart the muscles inside his right arm by putting so much power into it; that act had also drained him of almost all of his energy. Venom knew that he could not just call retreat and be able to get away fast enough so he thought of a new plan.

"Inferno!" Venom called down at Jackie, who had just shot into the air to avoid Zach's punch. "Use the spell!" he screamed as he ran down and scooped up Nikki with his one good arm and threw her on his shoulder. "Cyborg get Rockfist, NOW!!" he screamed at Joey who had just been slammed to the ground by his opponent. Venom threw Nikki's unconscious body to Jackie, who caught her in mid air, and ran toward Brian, kicking him hard in the face, giving Jackie enough time to land right in front of the door and pull his spell book from Venom's coat pocket. Before Brian could punch back Venom kicked him in his broke arm and jumped away, landing right next to Zach. Venom pulled out his sword and cut a large gash across his chest before Zach could react, then jumped backwards toward Jackie and Joey. Jackie was reading some strange and foreign words out of his book as the small flame in his hand began to grow and consume him along with his brother and his two sleeping comrades that Joey had on each shoulder. Venom landed right in between them as the flame grew to an enormous size and consumed all five of them. Zach pulled his attention away from the painful gash across his torso and watched as they all disappeared within the flame.

The enormous flame suddenly turned bright red then imploded into itself to reveal that all of the black demons had disappeared within it.