August 1, 12:00 PM
Eddie Brock was having a group session with Dr. Kafka and the other patients at Ravencroft. He was still recovering from being separated from his other half and his desire to kill Peter Parker. He has been in here for over a month and dealing with his roommate Cletus Kassidy and his rambles about watching the whole world burn down to the ground. He wanted to get out of the place, but Dr. Kafka was adamant that he was not cured of insanity.
"Two months ago my life fell apart by that wallcrawler. I thought my life was over until I met my other half. It gave me the power to kill him. It also told me everything about who Spider-man is, but that's my little secret, I'm keeping that to myself."
"Thanks for sharing Eddie, everything you said was very enlightening. Sounds like to me you are very confused. The other self you speak of does not exist, and the fight you had with Spider-man and the Titans never happened. This is all in your head, you created the other self due to stress of losing your parents because of Spider-man." replied Dr. Kafka.
"Doctor, you have to believe me I know what I did, I am not crazy!" The patient sitting next to him bursted out laughing and what he had just heard. "What's so funny?"
"If I had a penny for every time I heard that I would be richer than Stark."
"Now Cletus, that's not how we talk to other patients here." said Dr. Kafka.
"Doctor, I'm going to really enjoy our one on one private sessions we will hopefully have." said Cletus.
"You watch your mouth and show Dr. Kafka with some respect!" shouted Eddie.
"Why don't you make me?" challenged Cletus. The two started to brawl, and Dr. Kafka in response to the situation calls the security. Security comes and drags the two out of the room.
September 7, 9:00 PM
Peter had arrived to the location Frank asked him to meet. He was well aware that Aunt May wanted to speak to him, but he feared that Frank would spread word of who Spider-man. He was standing on top of a building and waited for Frank to arrive. He turns around and finds Raven right in front of him.
"Geezus Raven, where did you come from?" said Spider-man as he jumped back.
"You left the tower without telling anybody and also I'm covering for Beast-boy for the night." replied Raven.
"Why are you covering for him?"
"He has a lot of homework to make up."
"How? it's only like the second day of school!"
"That's what he told me." Before he could reply Frank cleared his throat to let everyone know he was here. The two turned to see him in a tuxedo and not wearing his Punisher makeup.
"Spider-man glad you can make it! Ah Rachel what a lovely surprise to see you." asked Frank with a smile.
"You know who I am?" said Raven who was in disbelief.
"I noticed Peter hanging out with the same group of people for a long period of time. Once I found out who Spider-man was, all I had to do was deduce who the rest of the Titans were."
"You got all that from who I was with in two days?" asked Peter.
"No, I was going on a hunch, thank you for confirming it though." The two just stood there and had a stunned look on their faces. He throws a package at Peter. "Open it." Peter was a little hesitant about it, but he slowly picked up the package and proceeded to open it.
"I hope you know what you are doing." whispered Raven.
"My spider-senses haven't gone off yet, I think it's safe to open." He opens the package and inside has a folded tuxedo.
"What's this about?" asked Peter.
"There is a huge charity event that is taking place here that is being hosted by Fisk."
"Okay, what's that have to do with him." said Raven.
"I was able to retrieve information that a few underground gangs are planning to take him out tonight."
"Let me guess, you want me to be there to stop them right?" asked Peter.
"Wrong, I want you to help me take him out."
"What!?" exclaimed both Peter and Raven.
"Yeah during the commotion, we will swoop in and take everyone out and quietly make our way out."
"What makes you think we are going to agree to this?" asked Peter.
"Because I know Jonah would love to know Spider-man's secret identity is just some punk in high school. And even if you don't I can still do it on my own and can implicit everything on you."
"He'll also have a field day over me killing everyone as well."
"Don't listen to him Peter, he is bluffing." said Raven.
"I have synthetic webbing, duplicated your fingerprints, photos of you here. Those are just three examples. Do you think I'm bluffing?" Spider-man begrudgingly accepted and started to get dressed. Raven's face turns red seeing Peter getting undressed, and quickly looks away.
"Oh yeah, sorry I forgot." said Peter. He quickly gets dressed and he lets Raven know he is done. She immediately blushes over how handsome he looked in a tuxedo.
"So what do you think?" asked Peter.
"Y..you...look handsome." said Raven as she stammered. Before Peter could respond to the blushing Raven, Frank interrupts the two.
"Okay let's go." said Frank. He opens the door to the stairway, and turns around and sees Peter standing still with Raven standing next to him.
"Well what are you waiting for?" asked Frank.
"She comes too." demanded Peter.
"She is not part of the plan. She can go back home."
"I say she comes too, her magic abilities is a huge asset and can help us out." said Peter
"Not going to happen she is a liability." said Frank offhandedly.
"How am I a liability?" asked Raven. She uses her magic to create a dark crow and flew towards Franks ankles and wrapped itself around his ankles and transformed into a ring and Frank was hanging upside down off the building.
"What are you doing?" whispered Peter.
"I know what I'm doing." replied Raven.
"You wouldn't dare drop me from this tall building." said Frank.
"I would." She drops him sending him falling. At the last second Raven uses her magic to encase him in bubble and levitated him back to the roof. "I know you have a healing factor and adamantium skeleton so that wouldn't have killed you and you will be back on your feet in no time."
"Is that the best you got?" asked Frank.
"No, I could use my magic to break every bone in your body, make you relive your nightmares every day, and have you suffer eternally. So choose your words wisely, if you don't want to suffer that kind of fate." Frank and Raven had an intense staredown which Peter thought went for ages. Then Frank let up and smiled.
"Not afraid to cross that line when you know your opponent can't die. I like you, she can come." Raven lets him out and he calls his butler to prepare a special dress for his special guest. His butler shortly arrives with a beautiful dress, the boys walk in to let Raven change her clothes in private and change her skin color in order to conceal her identity. She lets them know that she is ready, and both of them walk out are blown by how beautiful Raven looked.
"W..well, what do you think?" asked Raven as she blushed.
"Y...y..ou..."stammered Peter. Before he could finish, Frank jumped in cutting him off.
"You look like a single Middlemist flower being shined upon the sun in the world of darkness." said Frank. Raven immediately blushed heavily, earning a confused look on Peter's face.
"Keep it together Parker. You can't let Frank get to you. But, why is it that I want punch him so badly?"
"If we're done here let's head downstairs and entertain some guests." Frank then turned his back and went on ahead. Peter looked at Raven and noticed she was still blushing.
"Hey get it together we can't have you losing your cool just yet."
"It's just...I've never been called beautiful before." said Raven, "what do you think?" He wasn't prepared for that question. He knew the right words to say, but his mouth was not cooperating. Thankfully Raven didn't notice and he continued to find words to say.
"Uh...Um...yeah...uh...we should hurry inside before Frank starts having second thoughts." Peter rushes in leaving Raven disappointed as she followed.
August 14, 11:00 PM
A Star Labs' truck was in New York City to deliver a symbiote to OsCorp. Star Labs did everything they could to study the cargo, however what they found was the symbiote to be extremely volatile. Every time they tried to touch it, it would lash back. Every time it bonded with the lab rats, the lab rats it bounded with viciously attacked the other rats. After many attempts to remove the symbiote, they found that sound vibrations was the most effective. They also discovered that the rat that it was bonded to was withering and despite being only 4 months old, it looked as if it was 7 years old. There was nothing more they could do with the symbiote and sold it back to OsCorp.
The truck was driving by Delancey Street and everything was going smoothly. The streets were as busy as ever, young adults are out eating and drinking spending their youth with their friends. Out of nowhere a black van rams into the side of the truck stopping the truck. Few masked men jumps out of the van, shoots and kills the truck driver, and forced the door open.
"What is in this thing?" asked one of the masked men.
"Who cares we are getting paid a lot of money to get this." The two grabbed hold of the cargo, and as soon as the two stepped out of the back of the truck, they found The Thing waiting for the two. Thing didn't like it when there was crime in Delancey street and proceeded to beat up the two masked men. During the beatdown, the cargo was accidentally opened, giving the symbiote the opportunity to escape by bonding with a nearby pigeon and flew away, sensing its former host nearby.
September 7, 9:30 PM
The three walked down to the seventeenth floor and saw a giant glass door, and inside the room was filled with people in suits and fancy dresses, with a full orchestra playing in the background, waiters walking around with horderves. Much to his delight and surprise he finds Harry there.
"Hey Pete! Surprised to see you here" asked Harry as hugged Peter.
"Hey Harry! What brings you here?" asked Harry.
"Purely business, my dad's company is trying to show that I'm somewhat capable of running OsCorp."
"So they think by showing to this event will convince them?" asked Peter.
"I guess, I'm just trying to make sure it doesn't go to the wrong hands." Harry looks at Fisk to subtly tell Peter something and the turns around to see Frank talking to other guests with Raven beside him.
"Wow who's that girl?"
"That's Rachel, you know from Physics class, well was from Physics class."
"Damn of all the girls in Midtown High, he picks her. She is really lucky." Peter upon hearing that gave both Harry and Frank the death glare. Before the two could continue, someone yells out Peter's name, and much to his chagrin it was Jonah Jameson.
"Parker what are you doing here?" Before he could respond Jonah cuts him off again, "doesn't matter, here's a camera take a bunch of pictures of me and Fisk." Jonah drags him away from Harry and brought him to Wilson Fisk.
"Jonah! it is great to see you again. How's the newspaper business doing?" said Fisk.
"Business is great! The Daily Bugle is selling newspaper like hotcakes." said Jonah.
"Haha I'm sure the people love hearing about Spider-man as much as you love talking about him." said Fisk.
"Spider-man is a menace and the people deserve to know the truth." said Jonah.
"Well I'm curious to know who took those wonderful photos of him."
"That would be me." answered Peter.
"Ah yes, Mr. Fisk this is one of Daily Bugle's finest photographers Peter..."
"Ah yes Mr. Parker, it is great to see you again." interrupted Fisk as he shook Peter's hand. "Tell me how's Franklin been doing in school."
"You could say he's been doing a killer job in school." said Peter.
"Ha ha that's excellent to hear, between you and me I think you're doing a fabulous job of taking photos of New York's finest heroes, Spider-man."
"Really!? You think so!?" said Peter as he perked up after hearing that. It wasn't everyday Peter was complimented for his work at the Bugle, but what really took him by surprise was the compliment he received as Spider-man. He has been used to getting compliments from citizens of New York before, but that was only because he was with the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and the Titans. On his own he got nothing but jeers, threats, and people fearing him.
"Grrr. Parker just take the damn picture." said Jonah who was upset that Fisk not only ignored him, but he considered Spider-man a hero. Peter took the picture and shooed Peter away. Peter walked across the room to observe the party. The only thing he focused on was how Frank and Rachel spending so much time together. Harry approaches Peter from behind and gives him a pat on the back.
"Everything okay!?"
"Huh!? yeah everything is great, couldn't be happier."
"Pete don't take this wrong way or anything, but you haven't been the same since Gwen."
"I mean yeah, but I'm getting better right?"
"Pete, the fact you had to ask that is enough to let you know my answer."
"Harry, I'm great really, I've never been so focused ever in my life. I'm so focused that it's so hard to describe how focused I am."
"Pete, you've been drowning yourself with work for the Daily Bugle, more so than usual."
"I've taken an extra to help out with Aunt May. If you really cared about me you would understand why I'm doing this." said Peter as his aggression escalated
"Peter, calm down I'm just worried about you."
"What's there to be worried about?"
"I don't want to lose anyone I care about. Especially you." There was a seemingly long pause between the two. Peter ashamed and disappointed in himself. He had forgotten about what Harry was going through.
"Harry, I'm sorry...I didn't realize."
"Pete you're not the only affected by Gwen's death. I lost my dad, and Eddie because of Spider-man, I don't want to lose you too."
"Harry I...I'm sorry..." Peter walks away to the balcony of the apartment just to catch a breather and take in everything.
August 14, 1:00 PM
Eddie was lying down in his bed, trying to relax and make the best of the situation he is in. Seconds felt like minutes, minutes felt like hours, hours felt like days.
"Give it up Brock, you and I are going to be here and enjoy our time together." said Kassidy.
"What do you know? You don't know what it is like to be with someone that gave you what you needed, the power to kill Spider-man."
"You don't know true power. Real power is seeing someone beg for their lives as you hold in one had a knife to stab them with and the around their throats. The power of deciding the fate of a person is the greatest power." Eddie chose to ignore him over what he just said. What really bothered him was how the doctors here think he was just as crazy as Cassidy. The longer he stayed in here, the crazier he got. He calmed down and continued to think happy thoughts, specifically Dr. Kafka.
"Maybe Dr. Kafka was right. Maybe I really did imagine everything." His facial expression went from calm and in peace to unrest and angry.
"No, I can feel it close to me. I know it is out there. I need it and it needs me." He takes a look out his window and saw a black bird flying towards him. He took a closer look as the bird sat on the window sill and immediately recognized it.
"It's you...I knew you would come back to me." he places his hand on the window as well as the symbiote after removing itself from the bird. The symbiote slid underneath the window and began to bond itself to Eddie, then Dr. Kafka walks into his room.
"Okay Eddie now is time for OH MY GOD!" screamed Dr. Kafka witnessing the rebirth of Venom.
"See doctor, I wasn't lying about my other side." He punches out a wall and leaps out escaping. Kassidy sees all of this and runs towards the window.
"No that's not fair, I want the power, I need that power."
September 7, 10:00 PM
Peter looks out to see the bright lights of New York, and starts to rethink about everything. He took in what he and Harry just talked about, and started to reflect on everything.
"Man I've been so wrapped up with everything, I forgot about Harry. I mean he still thinks Spider-man killed his dad... " From behind Rachel places her hand on his shoulder to get his attention.
"So there you are, trying to get away just like me?" asked Rachel.
"Hey Rachel, do you think I'm a failure?"
"Sigh~are we really doing this?"
"It's just I was talking to Harry, and not only have I completely ignored him, I've also made his life more miserable as Spider-man."
"Pete, you save lives everyday and don't you remember Trigon?"
"Yeah I know, but I can't even save my best friend from myself, what kind of hero am I?"
"You saved me though. You saved me from my father." She walks over to him and places her hand on his right cheek. "When you think about how you failed to protect someone, just remember the times you have been able to protect someone." Before Peter could respond, Frank comes in to interrupt everything.
"There you two are. You guys are missing the party and missing out on the guests we have to be on the lookout for."
"I don't know if I can do this, I have a lot on my mind at the moment."
"Last time I checked you agreed to our arrangement. Now I don't care who or what hurt your feelings, but right now we have to be back inside." Before Spider-man can respond, his Spider-senses went off. The Shocker, Cinderblock, Vulture, and Barracuda who are led by Jigsaw crash the party comes in guns blazing. As the crowd panicked and ran, Rachel removed her watch to transform back to Raven, Frank took his suit off to reveal his Punisher outfit, and put on his makeshift Punisher mask with the white skull painted on it. Peter ran to a nearby closet to change into his Spider-man costume.
"You know what the boss paid you to do, go nuts." said Jigsaw, as he fired his Tommy Gun with Barracuda. Shocker fired his sonic blast at the door, blocking the exit, Vulture threw his blade wings at the ground stopping any guests from escaping, and Fisk tried to be a hero and picked up a chair and smacked Cinderblock with it, who showed no pain and threw Fisk across the room.
The three arrived to take out the villains. Raven used her magic to lift the pile of debris and threw it at Cinderblock knocking him out. Spider-man dodges all of Shocker's blasts and positioned himself where when he dodged again, the Shocker accidentally hits the Vulture. They managed to clear a path for the guests to escape, and Raven and Spider-man expected the Punisher to take on Jigsaw and Barracuda, however Spider-man saw Punisher going towards Fisk. He swings over to confront Punisher about this.
"Woah Punisher we got two gun-toting psychos right here, and you're going after Fisk?"
"Yeah he's all that matters."
"Why!? He has nothing to do with this, and we have to make sure everyone gets out safely."
"What do you mean why!? He is the Kingpin! I know he is!"
"Kingpin or not there are innocent lives here here. They come first!" The two stared down until Raven got in between the two to stop the argument.
"Uh guys what are we going to do about these guys." The two turn their head towards the villains and saw the three looking right at them with their weapons pointed towards them.