Summary:

Introducing STARK!

And a little warning before hand, I do like Stark I do, team Ironman all the way!
But I have a feeling Eddie wouldn't, which I tried to describe in the Ironman chase?
Anyway please don't hate me for this chapter :(

And to all my readers a early HAPPY NEW YEAR!

PS I realized I never answered you guys back on the early chapters, thank you all so much!
I love to read your comments and thoughts on the story as it proceeds! Again Thank you all so much!

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

The old year went by fast now. After Christmas ended Dan and Anne took Eddie for a stroll around New York. Forcing Eddie to share his secrets about the best places the town had to over, together they ate at a very nice little dinner and went shopping for clothes. Eddie had thought he would be the third wheel of the party but Anne always pulled him next to her and involved him. She even promised to stay for a small Newyear's eve party.

Peter and aunt May came by to, together they drank some coffee and talked about this and that. They cleaned up the Christmas decoration and Peter invited Eddie for this upcoming science fair Peter's school hosted. 'It's going to be amazing Eddie, I swear!' Peter exclaimed enthusiastic, waving his arms around and started explaining the device Ned and he had built for the fair. Sadly enough, Peter and May couldn't come to the small Newyear's eve party, because Stark had invited Peter towards some Avengers gala, which Peter was very excited to go too. May was a little troubled about it but understood Peters enthusiasm.

Newyear's eve came and went and Anna, Dan and Eddie went towards this little bar, Eddie knew from his time in New York and celebrated together with a big group of strangers. Anne and Dan got so drunk Eddie had to call a cab for them to get them back to their hotel. The day after that Anne came by to say goodbye and kissed Eddie on the cheek, wishing him a good new year and to promise her to keep her updated.

Eddie started working again and helped Marc finish an article about a charity event just before the deadline. He and Marc went towards another event which Stark had hosted, inviting the Avengers and the news and were Captain America wished everyone a good year, pleading the people to please stay out of trouble. Which caused a few laughs around the room. Venom and Eddie also went hunting for some food and ended up interrupting some big deal, that was going on between the mafia. They ended up eating some very dangerous people, because the next job Marc and Eddie got was to find out what had happened to this big mafia boss who had disappeared. The police didn't understand anything from the crime scene, for Venom had eaten his victims mostly whole so there wasn't as big a crime scene as there had been when they had hurt Peter. Thankfully the police investigation had ended very quickly with that accident, duo to the lack of witnesses.

'A new year has started V...' Eddie said to Venom, sitting on his couch after a day of work, sipping a cold beer and watching some tv-program. 'Yesss it hassss.' Venom hissed and dug into his warm tatertots. Eddie's thought drifted off towards Peter, they now again, kept regular contact with him and one time they even went together to the bad neighborhood and Eddie shot some pictures of Spiderman taking on a three man-team of thief's who tried to rob a small bank. Spiderman caught the robber's red handed and tied them up on the roof of the ceiling. Afterwards Eddie wrote a big piece about it and it got publicized on the front of the newspaper. Peter had come by the next day waving the paper in front of their face and had kept on shouting how awesome this was. 'We really like the kid Eddie.' Venom spoke, interrupting himself from gulping up his last tatertot. 'Yeah, we do V, kid even invited us for his science fair. Can you believe it?' Eddie laughed and sighed satisfied, relaxing further into the cough so Venom could finish his tot's. Only to shoot up and yell 'Wait when is the science fair!' Startling Venom into dropping his last tatertot, which earned him a deep dark growl and a pissed of symbiote. Eddie ignored Venom and ran towards his computer to open up his agenda. 'Phew... Lucky us it wasn't today!' Eddie breathed relieved and leaned backwards into his chair, Venom bent around Eddie's side to take a look at the computer. 'But when issss it, Eddie?' Venom asked, his head tilted towards the side. 'We wanna see the kid again.'

'Well let me take a look.' Eddie said and sat up again he saw the date and said, 'Well it's tomorrow actually.' He leaned back again and said to Venom. 'Well I'm glad I took that day of tomorrow...' Venom purred and smiled towards Eddie. Eddie laughed and scratched Venom over his little smiley head, V's purring filling the quiet apartment. Eddie then stood up, brushed his teeth and went to bed. The fair didn't start until noon so Eddie slept in and was woken up by an excited Venom. 'Eddie pancakes!'

Once showered and dressed in jeans, without holes and a comfortable blue hoodie, Eddie didn't want to embarrass Peter by showing up like a homeless person, he went to make Venom some pancakes. After breakfast Eddie cleaned his apartment and answered some messages from work, he was feeling so productive Eddie even started working on his next project. Apparently, there were a lot of burglaries in metalwork companies and also in several HighTech businesses. There had also been some Christmas trees destroyed and several Christmas decorations wrecked, some Christmas vandalism hating the jolly time. Eddie gave Venom some chocolate and enjoyed one last cup of coffee and then it was finally time to go and meet Peter.

Eddie drove his motorcycle towards the school, once there he saw the decorations for the science fair pointing him in the right directions. A big banner hang in front of the front door inviting everyone interested to come and watch the new generation of scientist and their work. Eddie pondered for a second and took out Peters present, a small notebook and pen, he felt Venom become curious and move through him getting excited, which made Eddie laugh. The fair was held inside the giant gym of the school, the whole place filled with tables and little stands, with students behind or in front of them. There was a lot of talking and noise going on, but luckily it didn't bother Venom too much.

Eddie visited every table and the students who didn't know him still welcomed him and when they saw that Eddie sincerely showed interest for their project, they became even more enthusiast and started telling him all about their work. Eddie could feel Venom become interested and together they listened to the ideas of the students, some Venom even complimented in their head for the creativity and saying that some ideas could even work, given enough time and material. Eddie even noted those things down, telling the kids that he was a journalist and that he maybe could write a piece about the science fair for the newspaper. Finally, when he thought he would never find Peter inside the giant gym he saw him standing next to another boy. 'Peter!' Eddie almost shouted, relieved that he had found the person he had come for. 'Eddie!' Peter yelled just as excited, waving him over and introduced Ned to him, Eddie shook hands with Ned and when Ned saw Eddie's notebook, Eddie told them about the idea to write an article about the fair. Peter and Ned became enthusiast and immediately started telling Eddie about their device, which was a machine that could, in theory, work to repair the Ozon layer. Eddie looked at the kids and listened to them, but in the end, he didn't understand much of the technology the kids tried to explain to him. Peter sees Eddie's confusion and laughed, nudging Ned and Eddie laughed with them. 'Well I really didn't understand anything you kids told me, but it sounded really cool.' Eddie laughed and Ned stopped laughing to wipe his hand across his forehead, 'Well I'm glad you don't just call us nerds, mister Brock. You see that's what my dad does' Ned says and wipes his hands on his pants. 'I would never kid! And you can call me Eddie. Mister makes me feel so old.' Eddie jokes and Eddie tells them about the other projects he saw and Peter and Ned tell him about the students and why some project is better than the other.

Once done talking Eddie noticed the excitement running through the building, he saw people whispering and pointing, kids were shouting and Venom became alert, scanning the room for potential danger. A large group of people came up and suddenly parted, revealing no one else but the famous mister Stark. 'Mister Stark! You came!' Peter yelled delighted, paired with disbelieve. 'Of course, kid.' Stark said, not even looking at Peter, while writing down his autograph in some kid's schoolbook. Once finished Stark looked up and walked towards Peter, looking at their project. Eddie quickly stepped aside, keeping his mouth shut and glancing sideways at Stark. Out of habit he started to compare himself with Stark. Stark was wearing tight jeans, and a snow-white shirt and a black suit jacket, Starks clothes showed of his fit body and muscles, on his arm a big shine silver watch and on his face dark sunglasses. Everything screamed confidence and money, Eddie quickly gave himself a onceover, nothing that the jeans he was wearing may or may not be his best, at least they didn't have holes in them but they did slobber around his legs and his grey hoodie hid his figure. Eddie was nowhere near fat, but compared to Stark... Venom hissed in his mind, chasing Eddie's thoughts away.

He quickly looked up and saw Ned's eyes grow and awe glowed off his face as his mouth fell open. Eddie snorted, amused by the kids face and nudged Ned, 'Why don't you tell Stark about your project?' Eddie said and looked over towards Peter, beckoning him over towards Ned and together the boy's started telling about their project. Stark listened and nodded, it seemed like Stark fully understood the kids. 'And that's how it works mister Stark.' Ned finished Peter's sentence. Stark now looked back to Ned and quirked his eyebrow. 'Well... I think that if you kids used a better generator and changed those iron parts with titanium plates the machine would work a lot faster than it would do now.' Stark finished and leaned against the table and looked back at Peter, who just stared at him and as soon as he understood that his Mister Stark wasn't going to say anything anymore, he started stumbling and searching for words. Trying to explain why they had done what they had done, Ned just looks lost and stay's quiet.

Eddie felt his and Venoms irritation growing the more Stark spoke. That arrogant little shit! How can he just say that? Those kids worked hard on their project, and while Peter is smart not everyone is born a genius with money! Eddie fumed and Venom to started stirring, were before he had been silent and just enjoying listening to the kids. We should eat him for being so rude Eddie. Venom growled inside his head, furry filling his thoughts and suddenly Eddie stepped up to Stark.

'How can you say that! I may not understand what these kids are talking about, but even I can see that they are proud of their work. They are kids Stark not your employees or your soldiers!' Eddie finished shouting, in his anger he had gotten right up in Starks face. Credits had to been given to Stark, 'cause he didn't flinch once, but looked unimpressed at Eddie, quickly Stark places his palms on Eddie's chest and shoved him hard and away from himself. 'Well some people do understand what Peter and his little friend build and I'm just giving them some advice.' Stark defended himself, crossing his arms and turned back around to the crowd, that had gathered when Eddie started yelling at Stark. 'Little friend?! If you had eyes you would see that those two are best friends' you moron!' The people had been whispering and talking to each other but now became quiet as Stark held his hands up in the air, quieting the people. 'Moron?' Stark paused for some dramatic effect. 'Fine! For all the students here, I personally grant this school the money to make real prototypes of all your projects. Of course, your projects will first be tested for functionality and safety before we support them and grant you the money to build them.' Stark added as an afterthought, he then turned back to Eddie and looked at him as if to say. See who got the kids back?

Eddie became completely flustered and turned red, now that all the attention was turned towards him. Venom growled and told Eddie to punch Stark in the face. He has insulted us and embarrassed us, let us eat him... Eddie immediately shut Venom up and dared to look Stark in the eye and glare at him. Stark only seemed amused as Eddie quickly turned around towards Ned. 'Your project is great Ned and I will make sure that tomorrow everyone can read about it in the newspaper.' He then turned also towards Peter and said 'Peter, Ned. You two keep on inventing machines that can save our planet.' Eddie tried to encourage the two kids in front of him, he then looked back over his shoulder to glower at Stark and then said, 'instead of inventing robots and suits to start wars.' Eddie finished and Venom let out a growl which went not unheard by most people in front, Stark's face now too, had turned angry and he showed Eddie his middle finger. Which caused a lot of laughs and gasps of disbelieve. Eddie then said Peter and Ned goodbye and hurried towards the exit of the gym, all the while pushing people out of his way, seeing as the whole gym had gathered to watch Stark and his stand off.

Finally, they reached Eddie's motorcycle. Trying to get home they broke every speed limit in the city and once home Eddie howled and threw around pillows and upturned some chairs, trying to blow of some steam. Venom appeared on his right shoulder and growled. 'Why did we not engage Stark in the battle he was so clearly trying to sssstart?' Venom hissed at him and Eddie looked at him. 'Because there where over a hundred people there V, you know we can't do that.' Eddie grumbled and stared out of the window watching the sky grow dark. After a while he went to sit behind his computer and wrote what maybe was his best piece ever, about a school event and sent it to his publisher. He was still sitting, fuming and lost in thought when he heard Venom say, 'Why don't we go out and eat a little snack?' Venom snarled with hatred still angry about what had happened this afternoon. 'We could use to lose some energy.' Eddie mumbled, he turned around grabbed his jacket from the couch, at the same time his e-mail dinged and a message from his publisher, who told him the piece made it on the frontpage of the newspaper. Eddie grinned and Venom settled satisfied within Eddie and together they walked down the stairs, trying to blow of some steam and looking for some well-earned dinner.

Notes:

So not a lot of Venom interaction, so I promise next chapter will be all VENOM!