Vein
(Venom + Bane)
Name: Eduardo
Biography: It is often said that love is the most powerful force in the world. But please take care to remember Newton's third law: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. For every force out there, the opposite of that force is just as strong. This is true with love's opposite, hate. For when two beings bound by love can create something beautiful in the world, two beings bound by hate can create one of the most terrifying monsters the planet has ever seen.
Our story begins in a strange place called Battleworld. In an attempt to see which one was stronger, good or evil, a being of unlimited power called the Changer (Beyonder + Shade the Changing Man) brought together the Earth's greatest heroes and villains to fight in a war that only they would know about. During his time here, Blue Spider (Blue Beetle + Spider-Man) came upon a strange black blob that wrapped itself around the arachnid hero, turning itself into a slick black costume. Blue Spider took a liking to this costume, and not just because it looked cool. The suit enhanced his strength, speed, and agility far beyond his normal levels. It was also able to produce its own natural webbing out of Blue Spider's wrist. At first, the arachnid hero thought that the suit was a dream come true.
Then he realized that it was changing him, corrupting him, making him more aggressive and hateful. Finally, Blue Spider decided that he had to get rid of it, so after sneaking inside H.O.R.I.Z.O.N Labs (Horizon + S.T.A.R Labs), he created a device that forced the alien symbiote off him, rendering it paralyzed. Blue Spider handed the creature over to A.S.I.D.E (SHIELD + ARGUS) for save keeping.
In an entirely different hemisphere, in the Peña Duro prison, there was a man simply named Eduardo. Unlike the other prisoners, Eduardo had committed no real crime. Instead, his reason for being there was to serve the life sentence his father was supposed to serve. Thus, the walls of prison life were the only thing he ever knew. Then one day, after a near death experience, Eduardo saw a vision. It was himself, stronger than anyone, standing atop all men. This future version of himself told him he would be a man without equal once he conquered fear. Fear, in this case, happened to take the form of a large spider.
After waking up, Eduardo started his journey to conquer that fear, starting by conquering Peña Duro. He trained his body and mind until he became a physical powerhouse whose might was matched only by his intelligence. He had become a legend, then one day, he heard tale of a man with the powers of a spider fighting crime in New York City. Eduardo's legend was compounded shortly after by doing something no other prisoner had done before. Escape.
Once he reached New York, Eduardo staged a prison riot at the Ryker's Island Maximum Security Penitentiary, letting loose hundreds of criminals into the streets. Blue Spider exhausted himself rounding them all up, but even with this advantage, Eduardo still couldn't stand up to Blue Spider's superhuman attributes. He was taken to Ryker's along with the other criminals, there he met ASIDE's leader, Amanda Fury (Amanda Waller + Nick Fury). Amanda gave Eduardo a choice, rot in prison or agree to become a guinea pig in exchange for time off his sentence. He chose the latter.
In one of ASIDE's secret bases, Eduardo was fitted with an apparatus that would inject any substance inside it directly into the user's brain. The substance they were using for the test was the symbiote. Fury's goal was to create an agent that was stronger and faster than several of the world's superheroes. As soon as Eduardo pressed the button, the symbiote was rushed into his body. He grew bigger, black ooze began to seep out of his pores and covered his entire body. By the time it was done, Eduardo and the symbiote became one.
Fury detonated the explosives he placed inside Eduardo in order to keep him from escaping. But to the shock of everyone in the room, not only did Eduardo survived, the symbiote put him back together into a singular piece. Eduardo escaped from the facility and, high from the power coursing through his veins, decided to name the symbiote and himself Vein.
Vein tracked down Blue Spider and gave him a much harder fight. A fight that would've ended with Blue Spider being torn in half if Spidey didn't trick the symbiote into ditching Eduardo. After webbing up the alien creature before it could make contact with him, Spidey dropped Eddie back at prison and left the symbiote to the Magnificent Men.
This imprisonment wouldn't last for long either, as the symbiote and Eduardo would continually come back together. At some point, Vein tried his hand at being a hero, with some... lethal results. The symbiote would bond to other hosts including former high school bully Kenny Thompson (Flash Thompson + Kenny Braverman) and fellow Blue Spider villain, King Scorpion (King Shark + Scorpion). But the two would always reunite, knowing that there's no one else in the universe they belong to but each other.
Powers & Abilities: With the symbiote, Vein is stronger, faster, and tougher than even Blue Spider. He can use the symbiote's biomass to create his own webs, and is invisible to Blue Spider's spider-sense. Vein can also shapeshift, taking on any form he can think of and regenerate from virtually any wound so long as he and the symbiote are together.
The symbiote also bestows its current host the memories of its previous ones.
But even without the symbiote, Vein is a forced to be reckoned with, his strength surpassing Olympians and his intelligence rivaling the very hero he's sworn to kill.
Appearance: When Eduardo and the symbiote are one, he easily stands out. His body is completely covered in the black suit with a white spider on his chest. The only other forms of color is the white shape over his face and large red eyes. The suit also comes with a large mouth filled with razor sharp teeth.