Many people call New York the 'city of dreams', mostly due to the mentality of those that believe that if they can make it there then they can make it anywhere. Something of which Rocky thought was very untrue. Though such a place is known for the almost endless about of things that could happen to anyone here. Like the top of the roofs for example as they were a usual hang out for teenagers or those that would like a bit time to think without the constant noise of below.
Currently on one of those many roofs was a 'family issue' going on.
"You fucking failure! One thing, you just had one thing and what did you do!? You pulled me from my Ryuko and what happened, you fucking-" The screaming red Symbiote was interrupted as Rocky slams his fist to the bottom of Carnage's chin. "C-Carnage please-" Rocky tries to cough as Carnage keeps chocking him. Both the red Symbiote's claws just tighten their grip, things begin to turn dark for Rocky's vision.
Venom acts to try and protect its host, drawing a knife from one of Rocky's pouches, it thrusts it into one of Carnage's eyes. "Ahhh!" Carnage screams in pain but does not let go, instead just letting out a wild screech directly at Rocky's face. In desperation, Rocky pulls out one of his pistols and begins to shoot it into Carnage's stomach…or try to, as the red Symbiote's tendrils knock it from his hand. "No, you die…you die, you die!" Carnage screams as she begins to slam Rocky's head against the gravel they were standing on.
Rocky couldn't even give out gurgle noises as Carnage just continued to punish him, Venom was beginning to panic. The white spider emblem on Rocky's chest closes on itself, as his pouches and armor sinks into his body. Carnage didn't have any time to react as suddenly several black spikes shot out of Rocky, forcing Carnage off him so that cover Rocky's head. With the older Symbiote gasping for breath he pushes himself to his feet, his body shifting to a more 'Venom' as his mouth and muscles form. "Wait Carnage, I-" Venom wasn't able to speak as Carnage tackles Venom off the roof again, this time the two fall off into an alleyway with both land directly on top of a parked van.
Venom gives a groan as he pushes himself off the vehicle. "Carnage is you just let me explain-" The Symbiote tries to speak, before Carnage just rips out the van's engine and slams it over to Venom, knocking him to the floor. "Ah, damn it boy…I am trying to-" Carnage doesn't let him speak, as he pounds the engine repeatedly over the black Symbiotes head, the thing breaking apart after the fifth hit…not that Carnage was done. Just as Venom tried to speak again, Carnage picked up the rest of the van and throws it down on Venom with all his might, letting out a loud screech of rage after he does so.
It leaps back just as Venom rips his way out of the vehicle, the Symbiote looking angrier than before as manages to catch Carnage before he could tackle him again, and slam him to the floor. "Enough and just freaking listen to me!" Venom shouts, finally happy that he was able to finish a sentence…only for red tendrils to shoot out from both sides of the alleyway, Carnage sending them from his hands through underground, nearly skewering Venom if he had not leap out of the way…the tendrils still chased after him, forcing Venom to completely rush out of the alleyway and jump way high in the air.
He tries to shoot out a web-line so the he could swing away and tried to think of a plan, but the web was cut though by a red spike just as it attached to a building, making the black Symbiote begin to fall to the floor. As Venom prepares to shoot out another web, Carnage meets him in mid-air and throws the older Symbiote through a window in some nearby department store.
Venom slams his fist to the floor, he was really getting annoyed now. The Symbiote mostly being in control at this point as it is trying to communicate with Rocky and keep its anger in check, but was having no luck, falling more to his anger inducing side. He sees that people were inside, and lets out a roar and scaring them away…and then Carnage crawls in from the window onto the ceiling.
"What is there to listen to huh?! That you didn't do what you were supposed to?! That you let that faking yellow bitch of a symbiote live, and her pink wearing whore as well!" Carnage screams before he lets himself down from the ceiling and lands on his feet. "Come on old man, tell me already?! Especially after I pretty much fucking giftwrapped her for you by blowing her damn wrist apart!" She screams, making Venom actual flinch from sheer volume.
He tries to give an answer, before suddenly he was shoot by a large red spike that was aimed at his leg. It completely ripped through causing Venom to fall over, face first to the ground. He growls as he tries to push himself back up but Carnage just rushes forward and stomps him back down. "No, you fucking stay down and listen! Don't you fucking go telling me that you did it because you didn't want to kill her, you already crossed that fucking bridge already…or did you forget what it was like to rip a man's head off with your teeth!"
She then kicks Venom across the room, his body crushing through a wall into the next-door saloon. Carnage doesn't even wait to continue, she grabs Venom and drags him to a nearby sink and slams his head on the counter. "How many times did you try to kill ME, huh?! Or my Ryuko, or even that time you nearly fucking ate Mako! That one had your 'friends' get involved! So, stop with the fucking morally bulshit and tell me what the actual fuck is going on with you!" As Carnage finishes she tosses Venom at the ground and glares at him with the most hatred she could muster.
Venom for his part, tried to gain control of himself. Not only to keep his rage in check…but mainly because Carnage was still four times stronger than him, while normally such attacks would do nothing to him…at the rate of his strength and speed, Venom's was already getting near his limit…Carnage was not holding back at all.
"We…avoid trying to kill as much as possible-" Venom began, only for Carnage to rip off the faucet of the sink and stab it right into Venom's throat. "Wrong answer!" The red Symbiote shouts before he grabs Venom again and throws him through another wall, this time into a liqueur store.
Venom really was not enjoying his day so far. It was bad enough that he had to deal with Rocky's family drama, he did not need his own to be thrown in at this point. The older Symbiote rips the faucet out of his throat, and grabs one of the unbroken bottle from the shelves. Seeing that someone was running out from his corner vision…most likely the owner, it thought it was okay to grab one without paying.
It needed a drink to calm its nerves.
Carnage steps in through the hole that he created, seeing Venom just sitting on the floor and drinking.
"Are you...kidding me!? You chose to be the acholic father now!? I am LITERALLY about to kill you right now to black cum rag with arms and no le-" He is stopped mid-sentence as Venom picks himself up and holds a single raised finger up to his direction, pretty much the universal 'hold on' pose. Carnage just stares at him, frozen from completely rage that was flowing through her host. Being slack jaw at what they are see. "I am gonna ripping your guts through your ear holes and you rather focus on drinking!? That's it!" Carnage screams before she steps into the room and starts to stomp to Venom, either not noticing the liquid on the floor from all the broken bottles…or not caring.
She then grabs Venom by the throat, and slaps the drink from his hand. "Am I a damn joke to you!? AM I!?" She says as she picks him up and slams him into another shelf, knocking over more bottles of alcohol off the shelves and to the floors. Before Venom could speak back, Carnage stabs him at his side with his claws. She then stabs him again, and again, watching as Venom's Symbiote face gives breathless screams of agony, before it begins to peel away…showing a pal looking Rocky underneath as he was having trouble breathing.
With a grin, Carnage digs her claws deeper into Rocky's Venom covered side, watching as he grinds his teeth and tries not to yell. She begins to lightly chuckle, as he tries to fight back…shooting webbing with his right hand at Carnage's chin, but the younger Symbiote was able to easily dodge that…not so much when the black webbing pulled down the ceiling's air condition unit right on top of her.
The machine might as well have been made of cardboard though as Carnage just toss it away and sees Venom was limping to the window. Before he could charge at him again, the black Symbiote turns around…showing he was having his Symbiote place together parts to a machine gun for him.
Carnage quickly places her arms in front of her head and braced herself for the incendiary rounds…yet as Venom began firing, the red Symbiote didn't feel the heat or even the impact of the bullets…instead she sees as Venom was shooting around her, hitting the rest of the unbroken bottles in the room, splashing the contents everywhere, even a bit on her.
She was only able to give him a confused glare…before she notices he take out one of his pistols from his side. "…you're not a joke…you're just the butt of one." Before he jumps out the window and fires at the floor.
Carnage…admittedly was not as smart as Venom, his host, and even her own host. Yet however she was at least smart enough to know a couple of times, one was that…fire…plus alcohol…equal not a good time for a Symbiote. And she was currently standing, even slightly covered, with alcohol…as fire was beginning to spread on the wooden liquor covered floor.
Laying on the sidewalk floor, outside of the burning store, Rocky was placing a hand on the spider emblem on his chest. Though he was fully back to his armor look, it was still wrapped around him. "Yeah…yeah, calm down." He muttered to it, before watching as Carnage jumps out of the window, landing next to him as he tried to beat the fires off itself.
Rocky reaches into one of his pockets and pulls out a red canister, with a fire symbol on it with a large red 'X' over it. Opening it, revealed it to be a mini-fire extinguisher, as the white form shoots over Carnage…putting out the flames, which resulted and a half naked Beatrice staring at him…both very angry and very tired.
"Ugh…I guess you really have a higher tolerance when it comes to fire than me." Rocky groans out as he throws the canister off to the street and tries to move to a sitting up position. Venom was not liking the idea of being so closed to a building on fire…so he was trying to pull himself back.
Beatrice doesn't say a word, but neither was Rocky as his Symbiote changes back to normal clothing on him…by the time the two managed to reach the edge of the sidewalk, they were both in a sitting position trying to catch their breath.
Rocky was the first to speak. "So…now are you good enough to talk like a fucking normal person?" He says in-between breaths, looking to the red head teen almost expecting him to jump him with a knife.
"Fuck you." Beatrice says back, as he holds a hand on his knee, and straights his back, an audible creak being heard from it.
"Good enough." Rocky says back to him as he looks to the road ahead of them. There was no one in sight, probably has something to do with the sight of two alien-like monster fighting each other through. With a heavy sigh, Rocky reaches into one of his pouches and pulls out a pack of cigarettes, tossing it to the side of Beatrice's head…which he catches before it could hit him.
He gives a small scoff. "Trying to butter me up asshole…you didn't even get the brand I like." Beatrice says, but doesn't stop himself as he rips the pack open and places a cigarette in his mouth, taking a match book out of his symbiote as she reforms into his pants so he could light it.
"…I'm sorry." Rocky tells him, as he continues to stare forward…watching as the large light of the building burning behind them just flickered on, hoping that the place wouldn't fall over top of them…then again, they would probably survive. "I should have killed her…me or Venom…"
"But you didn't." Beatrice interrupts him as he begins to smoke. Rocky's gaze looked to the floor, regret in his eyes. He runs his hand through his hair and down his face. "Yeah…I broke her spine, Venom poisoned her Symbiote to the point that it would take YEARS to heal her host, even if the Symbiote managed to heal itself." He tells him, speaking in a low tone.
He hears Beatrice give a scoff. "You really live up to the name Venom huh, old man." He chuckles out as he holds the hand with his cigarette to his forehead. Rocky just gives him a light shove in response. "Don't be an asshole right now." Rocky mutters, before he briefly looks back to the flaming store behind them. "…Inumuta told me what happened…It was early in the morning…or rather…late, I don't know…fucking time zones…loss of blood, brain is confused…ugggh…" Rocky tells him as he begins to rub at his eyes, feeling a bit disoriented now.
"Pretty much it was after I had a talk with him already yesterday for us. I called them up to let them know I am onto something of a lead…and they told me the…news. Apparently, Satsuki got in the mix of it, tried to help Ryuko…and…" He pauses before he pushes himself up to a standing position and starts to limp away down the sidewalk, holding a hand on his stomach.
Beatrice begins to follow him from behind, and quickly walk up to his side. "And how well did that go?" He asked in a knowing tone.
The sound of sirens was beginning to be heard as firetrucks could be seen turning the corner of the street. The two symbiote host ignored the trunks driving by as they continue to walk on. "…They are in one piece…though, I can't say the same for Ryuko's kamui." Rocky could see from the corner of his vison as Beatrice quickly turns to look at him. His eyes were slightly widened and he looked a bit panicked. Rocky nods his head to assure him he was telling the truth. "Yeah, sorry…I think. Not quite sure what I can say about a freaking uniform." Rocky gives a shrug, as he and Beatrice turn another corner. Beatrice tightly closes his eyes. "All that matter was that he's a friend to Ryuko." He mutters as he takes a drag from the cigarette, spatting out the smoke in frustrated way.
Rocky gives him another nod as he continues to talk. "…Satsuki told me that it was in tatters now…pretty fucked up as I can tell, but she assured me that Ryuko is fine, unconscious…but fine…and she is with someone on her side. Not sure what she meant by that…but..." Rocky and Beatrice then see the apartment complex where Rocky's mother and Gwen were. For a moment, he wanted to go inside and check on them…but honestly…he knew he couldn't, they needed to get things done as quickly as they can right now.
"I think I know….and trust me, she is not gonna be fine when she learns that her friend is fucking dead…Damn it…and I was just learning the damn thing's name too." Beatrice flicks his half-finished cigarette out to the streets and was obviously close to looking as he was gonna break something, his Symbiote looking to crawl a bit along his body. He either didn't notice the apartment or cared as they were walking away from it.
"…I'm sorry…but I can't be like you. Venom can…he can lash out through my body, sometimes influence my head. It's easy to kill when he is holding half the controls…but when I have them-" He was interrupted as Beatrice flicks his forehead, nearly pushing him over the feet. "Forget it…there ain't no point of explaining anymore. I get it…you're a pussy." The red head said in a careless tone, as he continues to walk passed him.
Giving a sad sigh, Rocky just shrugs as he looks to the road. "…yeah, yeah I now." He mumbles out. Before he sees hears the door opening, and Beatrice call out to him. "Good to see you admit it, now…you mention something of a lead?"
A small smile comes to Rocky's face. "Well hope you like the subway, because I don't think either of us are really in any condition to really travel somewhere across all of New York without our Symbiotes." Beatrice gives him a scuff as he shoves him slightly while giving a smug grin. "What are you talking about, we are in perfect condition right now, at least Symbiote wise, to go into that nearby closed drug store over there and take a bit of treats to perk our other halves up." As he spoke he pointed down the street were a closed store was.
Rocky thought about it for a second, not really liking the idea of breaking and entering somewhere, but then again, he remembered that it wasn't even 10 minutes ago…that he and he and Beatrice had already wrecked three other places. "…ah fuck it, what is another business to ruin…" Rocky mumbles with Beatrice giving him a loud 'that's the spirit' as they walk toward the shop.
Later…
"So, what happened was that before we left, I emailed an old professor that I got along with back in my college days. I wanted to know what was happening, and believe or not he is actually one of the main researchers on the infection that is happening." Venom said as he swung onto the roof of a building, this being slightly different than the normal New York one, as it was more clean, uptight, and looked as if no one had actually managed to break in in a while.
Beatrice was right behind him, in full Carnage form as he climbed up the building. "So, wait a second, going to college actually was worth it?" He joked as he looked around, seeing the big field in front of them with paved ways to other buildings and a large fountain in the middle of it all. Not to mention the large wall they passed that had the huge name of the place on it. "Jeez, you American's really like to suck your own dick about stuff your proud of." He mumbles as he sees there wasn't anyone on sight aside from a few night guards who looked ready to nod off to sleep at any moment.
"Oh, shut it." Venom tells him as he walks to a dome shaped window and has his Symbiote begin to slip in under it to unlock it for them. "Man, it feels weird being back at Empire State after so long, believe it or not I had a friend here who was super crazy about aliens, even claimed his dad knew some. God…dumbass would have a freaking Walkman on him at all times, and listen to these old songs…what was his name again." He says snapping his finger to try and jog his memory.
Though it was hard to tell with his jagged eyes, Carnage was rolling them as he stepped up behind Venom and crosses his arms. "No one cares about your stories, old man. Just get to freaking work before I throw you through the damn window already." Rocky looks back at him with a glare, before sighing and muttering a 'fine' as his Symbiote opens the window and he picks it up.
"Least you can do is thank me, I had the professor disable the security for us before he left. Only thing we need to worry about are the guards, and is they are anything like a year ago, they suck at their jobs." Venom says, pushing the window back as far as it could go so that he and Carnage could easily leave in case of anything. "Little warning though…I kinda needed to blackmail him."
Carnage face lit up at this as he leans in close with his usually grin. "Ohhhh, anything juicy?" Before leaping into the building, Rocky following him down as they were both now inside the dark lab. "Trust me, all you need to know is that the guy really likes Lizards." Venom says before he reaches around and flips a light switch, revealing the two the large highly-scientific lab…and the hundred or so lizards that were in glass cages all around in it.
"What the fuc-" Beatrice says in utter confusion as he looks around, with Venom cutting him off as he walks to a file cabinet and says. "REALLY likes lizards." As Beatrice was looking around, getting close to one of the cages and watching as the lizard was waving at him creepily, Venom peels itself away from Rocky's face as he looked through the cabinet for what was needed. "Come on, let's see…Electro Max, General Thaddeus, Jessica Jones, Joe Fixit, Banner- hell's that doing there, damn it Conner you need to work on your damn alphabets…um here it is, infected patients." He says pulling out a rather slim folder, with only about a few pages of paper in it. "Hmmm, not much to go on…but that one-armed goof, usually knew what he was doing."
He pauses for a bit to look at his own legs. "Not like I am in the place to make fun of anything like that." He then turns around to tell Beatrice the good news…finding him sitting in a chair, holding a large lizard in his arms and petting it like it was a cat. "Found something?" He asked as he continues to act normally.
Rocky just rolls with it as he walks to the desk and places the file there, opening it up as he was quickly scanning through it and the few papers that were there. "Yeah, it's not much to go on, but this is apparently what my professor manages to pick up on the infection. I was hoping we can get knowledge of it before we go in head's first so-" He stops mid-sentence…as he sees something wrong.
He begins to quickly reread what he saw, going back to start all over. Beatrice was looking at him with confusion, as he stood up and place the Lizard on the chair. "Stay Miia…" He tells it, with it just blankly staring at him. "Good girl." He then walks up to Rocky and ask him. "Sooo, what is it? Is it just as bad…worse than what we think? Come on throw me a line here."
Rocky just slowly pulls away as he stares at the file, completely speech less. Beatrice leans over to read it, but only grumbles as he tells the older Symbiote host. "Look, I can't read English good, so just tell me what is it already."
With his hands pressed down on the desk to hold himself up right, Rocky gives a shrug as he just looked at the file in disbelief. "Beatrice…this isn't a Symbiote infection." A low 'huh' was the red head's answer before he begins to yell. "The hell are you talking about?!"
"I don't know what it is they have but it's not a freaking Symbiote." Rocky yells back as begins to move some of the papers around, reading through each of them as best he could. "The hell is it then?!" Beatrice asks as he tries to look at the papers again, placing a hand on Rocky's face to push him away.
"I just told you th-" Slapping Beatrice's Symbiote clawed hand away, Rocky was about to start shout some more but stops himself. "Look…getting angry isn't gonna solve this problem. The fact of the matter is, it's not a Symbiote infection. The symptoms are similar, but it's not it." He tells him as calmly as he could.
Watching as Beatrice was looking to him for some kind of answer. "How can you be so sure?" He asks, with Rocky pulling aside certain papers from the others, looking through each of them.
"One way to tell is the blood. When a symbiote infects a host…the immune system is either untouched or made worst depending on the planet." Rocky says, before pulling out a paper and beginning to thoroughly read through it again. "Yet from what Conner's reports say…the white blood cells of the victim have increased by at least three times the normal amount." Rocky slaps his hand down on the hand-written notes in front of him and pulls out a paper that had two photos attached to it. "Hell, it was even reported that the many of the victim's past 'ailments' have been cured. Like this guy was on record of being HIV positive, and it was just gone when they tested him."
Rocky than begins to look around the room, walking to the nearby mini-fridge that had a display window in front of it, opening it up he went through the many different vials that were stored inside, before picking out two of them and tossing one to Beatrice, which the other Symbiote host caught.
"The second thing is what exactly the victims are vomiting out, or rather the color. All victims so far have been reported as black." Rocky told him as he continues to move around the lab, Beatrice was looking at the vial contents for a bit, before releasing what he was holding onto it.
Wait, did you just throw me vomit-" Beatrice nearly shouts, before Rocky bumps into him as he sets up a microscope as he places the 'liquid' from the other vial on a glass slide. "Complete Black is one of the least common of Symbiote colors. And even if it was a single Symbiote spreading itself out, the vomit that the victims would have would be more of a gray than anything else…maybe even dark blue or purple…" Rocky continues to speak as he places the glass slide into the microscope and begins to look in it.
Beatrice just tries to wrap his head about what Rocky was going on about, as he tosses the vile aside into a nearby small garbage can with a look of disgust on his face, and walks closer to Rocky…not really noticing the lizard he was petting earlier was walking to the container.
Rocky pulls away from the microscope and lightly pushes it so that it was closer to Beatrice. "Lastly, it's of the sample taken from some of the infected blood. It…take a good look under the microscope and see if you notice something."
With a reluctant sigh, and a roll of his eyes Beatrice proceeds to do so, looking through the scope with a bored look on his face. "I never paid attention in biology old man, my church didn't teach it…what am I supposed to look at?" He throws his arms out at the sides in the generic 'I don't know fashion'.
Rocky turns the knob on the side of the microscope to help Beatrice see a bit, by increasing the zoom on it, while telling him. "You see those red-ish small lines floating with the blood cells…that's not part of a human body…those are life fibers."
Beatrice quickly throws his head back in shock as he stares right at Rocky with a raised eyebrow. "Whoa, whoa…the same shit as our girls' outfits?!" With a nod, Rocky pulls the microscope away from Beatrice and begins to look at it as well. "And of all the one through three-star Goku Uniforms of Honnōji Academy." Rocky pulls away and crosses his arms, a grim look on his face. "Something is really bad…Satsuki isn't the type to allow something like this, she would never allow Goku uniforms to leave her care, let allow to be all the way in America."
"I got a better question, why the hell is it making people act like they are infected by Symbiotes?" Beatrice asked as he lays a hand on the desk to lean on it, looking extremely annoyed by the situation is going.
Rocky was with in on that, as his mask forms and he begins to walk away from the desk while shaking his head. "Damn it…just more freaking questions and no answers!"
Beatrice takes the glass slide out of the microscope and stares at it for a bit. "…Is there anyone else that could get their hands on this stuff?" He asks as he begins to flip the slide between his fingers. Venom shrug his shoulders at that. "No, aside from everyone in Honnōji Academy the only other people would probably be of Revocs Corporation…it might be possible they lost a shipment."
"Wait a minute, the hell is the 'Revocs Corporation'?" Beatrice walks up to Venom, while still flipping the vial around in his fingers.
Venom turns around to lash at him. "I told you, it's the same place that I was at when I…met…Nui…" But he pauses mid-sentence as a look of realization dawns on his Symbiote mask. A similar look appearing on Beatrice.
"...Old man, are you think what I am thinking?" Beatrice questions as he stops flipping the vial, inside just holding it under his thumb and pressed firmly on his index finger. He uses it to tap on one of Venom's armored shoulders as he gives a small chuckle. Venom ignores him as just takes a deep breath to try and calm himself. "That the bitch who kept me in a glass cell, tortured me…my little sister and even raped us-"
Beatrice leans a bit closer to him to whisper. "Not to mention who nearly killed MY Ryuko, and apparently murdered her…not only her dad, but her uniform friend as well." A large grin on his face, as he pulls away and begins to walk to the lab's windows that looked out into the city and a bit of the quarantine zone. "She…she! Was the one to cause…ALL this." Beatrice chuckles out before he begins to laugh loudly as his Symbiote forms around his head. "Hahahahaha! Oh, the list of reasons to kill her just keeps PILING ON…ohhh, next time I see her…I'm gonna take her head off, and throw it into a volcano. Oh man…don't let the smile fool you, I am very…very…pissed off right now." He says as he turns to face Venom, pointing at him with his free hand. "A little bit at you actually."
With his own Sigh, Venom as he looks to the desk again. "Please hold yourself from beating me up again, I'm still swore even with Venom healing-" A growl interrupts him…and both the two Symbiote turn to look at desk…where a lizard was on top of it.
Black liquid dripping from its mouth, as it was lightly fidgeting in place. Its eyes were completely crazed, with them being just ask black as the vomit coming from its mouth. "Oh man…why does it look even more disgusting coming out of an iguana." Venom groans out, before the lizard leaps into the air at him. His Symbiote reacts before he could as webbing from his chest and hits the lizard, sticking it to the ceiling…where it began growling at the two as it tried to wiggle free.
Without a word Rocky just turns his head to Beatrice, giving him a glare. Carnage raises his hands up and muttered a small "My bad…kinda threw the vomit in the trash, I guess Miia got in it." He then points to the lizard and loudly whispers to it. "Bad Miia, try to claw out his eyes when he isn't looking!" Venom gives a sigh, and jumps to the ceiling to get the lizard out of the webbing and place it into a cage.
As he does this, Carnage begins to look at the glass slide still in his hands. "Well…a little snack couldn't hurt." He lowly whispers to himself, remembering as the small bit of blood had life fibers…which his Symbiote just loved to eat.
However, as he opened the slide, and presses his Symbiote covered finger to it to act like a straw…something else happened. As Venom was placing the lizard into a cage Beatrice pulled I from, he hears Carnage screaming behind.
Venom quickly turns around to face him…and sees Carnage on his knees as he is holding his…hand that was literally steaming. "AHHHHH, owowowowow! OH GOD, OH GOD, GET IT OFF!" Carnage female voice screamed as she falls to the floor clutching her hand as it was…literally melting and evaporating in the air. The broken glass slide containing the blood right next to them.
Acting quickly Venom rushes to his side holding his arm as it continues to gain more and more steam around it. Carnage screaming all the while in absolute horrible pain, tendrils were shooting out of her body in response and she became more berserk as her eyes and part of her chest glowed yellow.
The Symbiote took over for Rocky at that point, as his mask swiftly transforms to his jagged eye and fanged form. "Carnage, what happened?!" He shouts, grabbing on to Carnage arms as he takes all the hits of her tendrils. He sees as more of the arm was turning into steam, slowly moving up the appendage. Carnage continue to try and thrash around. "Daddy! Daddy it hurts! It's hurts so baad…p-please, please help me! AHHH, the pain! THE PAIN!" She cries out as Venom tries to hold her down.
As the steaming came to her to her elbow, Venom grabs Carnage by her shoulder and forces the steaming arm to touch the ground. "Don't move!" He growls, with standing up and holding his foot down on her chest. He then turns his hand into a long blade, and as quickly as he could…he slices off Carnage's steam covered arm.
Her loud hollowed scream filled the entire room, but Venom couldn't let that stop him as he grabs her and drags her away from it...placing her on the far side of the room with the two staring right at the arm…as the steam begins to fade…revealing…Beatrice's normal arm…completely wiped away of all Symbiote.
The two Symbiotes look to the appendage in horror, both complete bewilder by what happened. "Carnage…are you okay?" Venom asks, as he gently touches the stub that he had made. Carnage giving him a small nod and a little 'uh-huh' before giving a little whimper. "It…it wasn't fire…" He mumbles as Venom gives her a nod. "I know." He tells her as he scans for any other part that may have begun to melt without her noticing.
"It wasn't sound…" Carnage continues to say, as her body seems to regain control and losing her yellow color. "I know." Venom told her again, as pulls away to look the arm on the floor…seeing the blood that was pooling out of it…not too far away was the broken glass side with the infected 'false symbiote' victim… "It was not even electricity." Carnage pulls her legs close to her chest. "It was worst…s-so much worst….it was horrible…I don't want to do it again, I don't wanna…"
She whimpers out for a few more seconds, before finally fully calming down and peels her head away to show Beatrice's. He stares off for a bit looking lost for a moment…till he notices something with one of his arms.
"Oh, not again." He mutters, as he pushes himself up to his feet, using the wall and nearby lab tech for support. Venom continued to stare forward at the arm…lost in thought at the moment. Beatrice didn't seem to care. "What was that…what the hell was THAT!?" He shouted as he stumbled a bit, but managed to walk forward and point at the arm on the ground while looking at the other Symbiote.
"That was…NOTHING we've ever encounter old man, I'M FUCKING SURE OF THAT!" He backs away from it, and places his remaining hand over his mouth…a sick look on his face. "I'm gonna fucking vomit." He mutters out before he rushes to a nearby trash container where he threw the vial in earlier to do so.
Venom continued to stare for a bit longer…before he finally manages to make himself move. Walking right to the severed arm on the ground…and touches it with a tendril from his hand. Carnage sees this, and literally the Symbiote on Beatrice screech's as she violently lunges forward…nearly taking itself off Beatrice in the process…and smacks Venom away from the arm. Beatrice obviously notices this. "The hell are you doing, Venom! Don't…just fucking don't." He tells him…worries and fear in his voice.
"T-that…that feeling…god." He mumbles as he collapses right next desk, clutching the trash container close to himself with his one arm. He was looking right into it…with a complete look of…despair on his face. "It was like I…I was sticking my hand into hell itself….and even single sin, ever horrible act I've ever done…all the pain I caused…was brought upon every single cell that made up my entire arm." He then moves his hand over to the stub of his arm. "Oh god…oh lord…" He whimpers out...as tears began to form in his eyes.
Venom though…just picked himself off the ground, and walked back to the arm…this time fully picking it up…with nothing happening to him. Beatrice head snaps to look up at him…watching as Venom examined the arm…before the Symbiote looks to him…
The look on his face was…one that usually would make him laugh. The scared…bewildered look. But all it did this time…was make the teen's heart…quake. "Beatrice…" Venom told him, before he holds the arm to the teen…Beatrice in responds tries to pull himself away as best he could, dragging himself until he hit the wall behind the desk. "KEEP THAT SHIT AWAY FROM ME!" He screams in terror as he tightly grips his stub, his Symbiote…shaking.
Venom presses on, till he was right in front of Beatrice now…and kneels down to his level, while still holding the arm out. "...it's not there anymore…whatever happened…it's gone now." Venom usual cold voice…spoke much more softly now. "But that is not all…" He then turns it, showing the part where he cut it off to Beatrice. "…there is no trace of Symbiote on it as well."
Beatrice looks at the arm…and begins to cry.
Later…
"Man…you two look like total shit. What happened?!" Gwen says as the two men were each just sitting opposite to each other at the dining room table, back in Gwen's apartment. Neither of them even look to her as they just had exhausted looks on their faces, Beatrice was keeping his hidden though as he had his hands buried in his arms like a student sleeping in class.
Rocky was keeping his up, though that was only because it was required to as he was typing away on a Gwen's laptop. The girl pulls up a chair and takes a seat down next to Rocky, though not to look at the screen. "Your mother is okay by the way…drugged as hell but okay and sleeping. Did you find Ellie, or…at least gotten some hint of her?" Rocky gives a shake of his head as he continues to look through the laptop.
He was currently in his email account, looking over what he manages to send to himself over Conner's computer in his lab…also to send him a warning about the lizard that they left in the cage and the slipped blood on the floor.
Beatrice could see through Carnage as Rocky shift his gaze to look at him a bit…he just flipped him off with the arm that was severed earlier, have placed back on thanks to carnage…though it did seem strange how it looked like his coat's sleeve was missing a large part of it up to his forearm.
Whatever was that stuff…made it hard for Carnage to go through his arm…and even show up on his skin. Hell, just managing to put the arm back to mush longer than it ever had before…Beatrice was mainly keeping his head down so that the other three didn't see how pale his face was.
…get a hold of yourself…you can do that right!? Come on, you're not scared of a little…a little bit of pain…a little bit of different pain. God…what was it? It felt like, no it…there isn't a comparison isn't there. On god…what did you get yourself into.
He tries to take his mind off by continuing to look to Rocky and Gwen. Rocky seemed to finally finish that message he was sending to his teacher, and Gwen didn't seem to care for what was on it as she was busy looking at the old man. "So…are we gonna talk about…it now? I mean…that's pretty much twice now you left your mother alone during a time she needed you." Gwen starts, while giving a displeased look on her face.
Beatrice could see Rocky take a deep breath. "Look, I was…trying to find Ellie." He tells her, not taking his eyes of the screen as he began to scroll though something.
"Well lots of good that did, and friend here was no help. I couldn't find him anywhere earlier when your mother was screaming bloody murder." Gwen then places a hand on top of the laptop and pushes it down to press on Rocky's hands, not to hurt him…but force his attention elsewhere. "Look…I'm not trying to be a bitch, but I am trying to keep you as a decent person. And that decent person can at least wait till the morning so that he could talk to his sick, and worried mother."
Geez…she knows how to make words hurt.
Usually Beatrice would be more than happy to call Gwen on that, tell her something along the lines of 'well I might not have known the old man as long as you have, but I can certainly say of all the things I call him, decent would never be one of them'…but as he pushes his head to face up to them, he only is able to say. "Hey…he's trying okay…but we have a lot on our plate as it is. If you want someone to blame, blame me. I'm the one that ended up wasting time." He doesn't even react to the shocked look Gwen gave him.
He felt too mentally drain right now. He did notice Venom…giving him a small nod.
Great…now you're sick to your stomach.
He turns his head to look back down, not wanting to look at the two adults that sat in front of him. It was good they were quiet then, the only sound being of Rocky scrolling on the computer screen and occasionally clicking on the mousepad. Beatrice enjoyed the quiet time for a bit, so of course it couldn't last as Gwen spoke up.
"Rocky, what exactly are you looking at? These look like medical reports." The old man looked annoyed for a bit before he mutters back to her. "I'm…like doing three things at once…I need to try and make sense of something right now, and I can't really do anything till I am sure…somewhat of it." He tells her before he leans back in his chair and grips his face.
He didn't look any happier as Gwen leaned closer to look at the screen. "…these are reports about the infections." She mumbles, with Rocky just giving a small 'yep' to assure her. Gwen looked to visible get more worried. "You…don't think Ellie is in the infected zone, do you?" She asks, with Rocky pulling his hand off his face as his eyes were slightly widen.
Moron didn't even consider it, ha.
"God damn it." Rocky groans as he gets up to his feet, looking about to head out the front door before Gwen grabbed his arm. "Rocky if you're thinking of going there, you're freaking nuts." She tells him with the old man just ripping his arm away from her.
"Me and Beatrice can take care of ourselves in case of anything-" Before he could finish Gwen starts to shout at him. "Hell no, Rocky! My dad was told that the military is there and they have shoot to kill orders for anyone that gets too close to the quarantine to stop the spread. The hell are you gonna do, try to go through the sewers?!"
Rocky rolls his eyes, not like they would need to obviously thanks to their Symbiote's ability to camouflage. "That may seem like a good idea." Rocky says sarcastically, before he grabs Gwen's arms and spoke in more a serious tone. "Look, if we have to do it to help Ellie, then I don't give a fuck where we need to go! If that means going through the sewers, we are going through the sewers."
Oh yeah, just keep piling on the reasons to kill you, old man. Dragging me to the sewers is going right in-between making me have nightmares and making Ryuko scared.
Beatrice thought as he gives a slight shake of his head, if there was one downside to heighten sense being a symbiote has, was the one with smell. Also, it looked as if the sarcasm flew over Gwen's head as she looks to be steaming in rage as she grabs the Rocky's shirt collar. "Rocky you can't! What in the world makes you think they don't have the sewers blocked by now, and even if that was the case you got to deal with those other guys!" Rocky gave a confused look at that. "…looking my dad should be home soon, and he can tell you a lot more about it…but since the infection…well…the mob has been giving everyone trouble."
Beatrice raises his head off his arms at the 'm' word. Watching as Gwen lets go of Rocky and starts to deeply sigh in irritation.
"The mob?" Rocky ask as he gives a brief look to Beatrice for a second, no doubt remember who his father was, before looking back to Gwen…who had taken back her seat at the table and had begun to type on it.
"You know, the Italian mob…don't ask me why of all mobs…they are showing up, but I hear my dad over the phone about the trouble they've been causing trouble through the sewers. Selling weapons, and collecting 'protection' money…you know…mob shit!" She then turns the laptop around to show to the two symbiote host.
It was on some website called 'the D. bugle' where it was showing articles about stories being hit by drive-bys, and people being founded with their ring fingers missing. The second part really catching Beatrice's attention.
It was a certain 'calling card' that he was very familiar with. Hell, while other kids were taught how to ride bikes…he was taught how to do that exact thing without making the victim bleed to death. Gwen turns the laptop back to face herself as she scrolls through the page. "They even got a freaking small restaurant not even a few blocks away from this place called…I don't know…um…la far…fele dora?"
Beatrice chair hits the floor by how quickly he leaped to his feet. "(The golden butterfly!)" The words came flying out of his mouth in Italian, not caring as he nearly scared Gwen off her seat. He looks to Rocky with the same shocked face, he quickly walks to him and grabs his arm. "Old man, we got to go there! Like…NOW!"
"Hey wait a second-AH!" Rocky tries to protest but was stopped as Beatrice was literally dragging him to the door. Gwen quickly rushes to it before he could as she held her arms spread out. "Hold on there, what are you-" "Oh for the love of Christ woman!" Beatrice shouts as Carnage quickly covers his body, completely scaring Gwen…but before she could scream Carnage forced a hand over her throat.
Okay, remember American girls are super soft and can't take much of a hit, unlike my Ryuko. So, I gotta be ever-so-gentle…
He then uses his now, nearly covered Carnage covered arm…and by extinction fist…to smash right into Gwen's nose. Rocky's jaw dropped as Gwen hits the floor with blood dripping down her nose. "Knocked out cold but her eyeballs stayed in her head. I did that for you Old Man, COME ON!" Carnage shouts, before he rips the door off its hinges and throws it to the other side of the rom, Rocky having to doge out of the way so that it doesn't hit him. "Let's go, let's go, let's go, we need to get there now!" Carnage speeds down the hall, knocking aside the cop captain that was in his way and leading off the railing to the bottom floor.
Rocky looks behind, seeing as the door Carnage threw had pretty much broken a lot of 'family important' stuff, like picture frames and such…he also looked down to the unconscious Gwen, and is now seeing as Captain Stacy was rushing into the room in a full panic and was currently screaming at him 'what happened' as he was trying to wake his daughter.
He was face with a little problem in that he could say here and try to help…but Carnage would be set loose on the city…not really much of a choice there. With Venom shifting around him, forming into his armor and mask Rocky tells the captain. "Sorry, need to stop a crazy person, I didn't hit your daughter or broke your door, bye!" or rather he quickly screams at said captain as he ran down the hallway and leaps off the railing after the red Symbiote.
It was easy to catch up to Carnage after that, the red Symbiote swinging a bit slower to look through the shops that they were passing over head before he spots what he was looking for. "(The Golden butterfly!)" He screams excitedly like a little kid being taken to Disney world as he lands in front of the restaurant, Venom landing behind him.
"Carnage…the fuck!?" He shouts, stopping the red Symbiote before it could enter inside. Carnage gives a groan as he turns to Venom. "Come on, dad! We got to get it already!" He says in a childish tone, sounding very anxious to get inside.
Though Venom was clearly not happy. "Not till you tell why the hell did you knock out my friend and ran out like a lunatic…okay, even more like a lunatic than usual!" Carnage gives a groan as he starts to bounce on his feet. "Because it is the gold butterfly! This is the name my actual dad called my mom when he ran the mob back in Italian and I think I know just one person who would have the balls to take up such a name here!" Carnage then pushes through the door and rushing past the entrance and through main restaurant area, passed many scared and confused people who were cleaning up the tables, and the very few costumers that were still here even with how later it was.
Carnage ran to a large double doorway, and kicks it open as he shouts. "Uncle Bullseye, your little hellspawn has returned to greet you!" As he leaps inside, he lands on a large table, with his arms spread out and a very happy grin on his face.
Though it quickly shrank in size as around ten or so people all pulled guns out at him.
"(The hell is that!? Marco is this this one of your jokes?)" "(No man, not me!)" "(My god, it's a devil!)" "(Holy Mary you might be right!)"
Italian words were thrown out as they all kept their guns trained on red Symbiote, as each of them were panicking…with Carnage seeing one person at the head of the table who had remained calm, and not even pulling a gun out. He just stares right back at Carnage with a control look and a smirk. "Welcome red friend, how was outer space?" He said as he moved up to his feet.
His voice, though seeming a bit gruff from smoking…as one could tell with the cigar in his hand, yet it had a friendly tone to it and a deep accent. Though that was only meant as a front so that it could hide the true their throat sliding nature. This man was clearly a master of such a tone, and he had to be seeing as he was the one that taught Beatrice such a thing.
Venom's voice is heard outside. "God damn it Carnage!" He shouts as he rushes into the room…and pauses as all the guns point to him. "Yeah not funny when you're about to get shot huh, Old Man!?" Carnage spat out with a teasing tone as he leaps off the table, landing at the side right next to a frighten waiter. "BOO!" Said waiter was now running out of the room as fast as his legs could carry him.
The 'supposed' crime boss snaps his fingers, and two large men at the side of the doors, who each had a shotgun in their hand, gave a nod and closed the door behind Venom. "So, I believe that the two of you are together…got some kinda of…style going on. (Like the red)." The man spoke as he walked off to the side of the table where Beatrice at. "Oi, (dumb fucks, put down the guns.)" He orders his men, with all of them doing as he says, though nervously as they continued to stare at Carnage even more so at Venom.
"(B-boss, this guy is…is like the fucking bitch that killed-)" One of the man screamed as he pointed to Venom…but was stopped as a bullet splatters his brains all over the table. The boss was the one who shot, as he was placing his revolver back into his coat pocket. "Now you had to go and make me ruin this perfectly good table cloth. You know how hard it is to find one big enough for a whole mob table? Ah, and he got a bit of himself on the breadsticks, this is just a terrible dinner with friends." He said as he snaps his fingers again, with the two large men at the door, moving the grab the body and drag it out of sight.
Carnage's grin return, fuller than ever. It also helped that he was seeing Venom visible start to worry now, probably still getting used to the idea of killing…somehow…and didn't like how a man just died in front of him. "My, apologize gentlemen, just the word 'bitch'…or uh…'cagna' as you heard it. Just hate when a lovely lady is called such a thing. Sure, she killed a couple of my men…and if I get the chance I put a bullet in her, but that doesn't mean I have to be rude. Women are a delicate gift from god. With such beautiful…everything. Treat them with respect, that is what I say." He gives a small playful shove to Carnage, not even seeming phase by the monstrous appearance of the Symbiote. "This guy knows what I'm talking about, eh. Bet you have a pretty girl of your own. And you treat her as best as you can."
A chuckle escapes Carnage's mouth as he nods his head. "Yeah, and I do." The man gives his own chuckle back to him, before he looks at Rocky…suddenly looking much more serious. "But even then, I am not one to ignore a man's last words. So please, present me a reason why you come disturbing my favorite meal of the day, dressed as a male version of the spider-woman that keeps attacking my men in the sewers."
The man then looks back to Carnage with the same look, holding his hands behind his back as he gives a much more…murderous cold look. "And also… 'Uncle Bullseyes'…that was a nickname my favorite nephew had called me many years ago. You got some balls to say that to my face like that." Carnage's grin someone continues to expand, while Venom was slowly moving his hand to his gun.
Before Venom could pull it out though, a small object just barely manages to be noticed by the Symbiote, as it quickly catches it with a tendril…and shows to it the host. "…is…this an unfolded paperclip?" Rocky asked in confusion as he sees the small object just bended nearly completely straight.
"Oh man, the gun sludger! He was planning to throw that little thing right in the gun's exit chamber where the bullets shells fire out, and jam it." Carnage cries out excitedly as he quickly rushes to Venom's side and take the paperclip in his hands. Ignoring Venom's shocked look on his mask. "…with an unfolded paperclip!?" He nearly shouts with Carnage nodding his head.
The mob boss gave a tilt of his head as he sees this. "…only few people in the world know that trick of mine, and they either work for me…or dead. Who…are you?" He asks Carnage, as he takes a step closer, and nearly falls on his back as the Red Symbiote's face peels back to reveal Beatrice. "It's me, uncle! Your little red diablo!" Beatrice shouts as loud as he could, with the brightest smile he could muster.
"(…mother of god…)" The boss mutters…before falling flat on his back, completely faint. Leaving the two symbiotes and their host to share down at him. "…you know…maybe coming in here in full 'homicidal alien form' was a bad idea, especially for your uncle with meeting family." Beatrice mumbles, before suddenly the doors to the room burst open and several armed men come in, all of which point their guns at the pair.
With a sigh, Venom just drops his shoulders and says. "Trust me, there was gonna be drama no matter what you looked like...though admittedly my family reunion had less guns pointing at me."
A single thought goes through both symbiote's mind.
That it was only a start of a long night.
(Hey, thank you all for reading this, and I am so sorry for the delay. I got a good excuse this time, a bitch named Hurricane Irma. I hope you like the chapter as there is more to come and I am so sorry for the lack of well…kill la kill stuff here.)
