Title: Red


Cindy stood over the unconscious body of the Rhino, popping her arm back into place as she just cracked her back. "Ooooh, that's gonna leave a mark.", Silk said as she shot a web. "Three down, three to go.", she said as she looked up to see an explosion nearby. She immediately took out her phone and dialed the number. "Pat! You saw that right?"

[Yeah, I saw. I was swinging by an Oscorp property, while thinking of asking Nick Fury or someone to help me out. But then that happened. I'll check it out, I'm sending someone your way to help you find the others.]

"Okay, I got it.", Silk said as she exhaled. "... be careful out there."

[I will. I love you.]

"I love you too.", Silk smiled as she hung up, wondering where the reinforcement was.


"Oh great, just when I was going to find where Scorpion was. BOOM! Something blew up!", The Spider thought to himself as he landed down on the platform, walking into see sheer destruction and violence.

"Either something really big happened, or Norman has some poor taste in decoration.", The Spider muttered as he passed by roaring fire... what he did pick up on, was a red substance stung about. "No... I recognize that.", he said as his scanners scanned the area. "The red goop, bodies piled up... there's only one thing that could do this... one thing.", The Spider looked on as Carnage himself leapt out.

He screamed as he could see the Symbiote finishing its transformation as he held the dead body of Mac Gargan. "Hey there Spider, it's been a little bit.", Carnage said as he threw the body and leapt up.

"No you don't!", The Spider said as he sprinted across the room, following him into another room. But it turns out he wasn't there... only more dead bodies. "Oh god... this is a massacre."

"HELP! SOMEBODY!"

The Spider leapt into action immediately, breaking down a door to see the Security Guards with that looked like a red substance forming over their lifeless faces. A man had barricaded himself in another room.

"Great, could use some Spider arms by now... oooooo, now I know what to add to the new Suit.", The Spider said as he leapt down and landed behind them. "Wow, didn't think someone could pull off spaghetti sauce so well."

The creatures turned to him and roared, immediately attacking him on sight. The Spider effortlessly dodged the mindless swings from them, using his trip mines to carefully take them down. However, they ripped out... so he popped his stingers.

He gracefully dodged from their attacks and stabbed them in their chests, taking them down easily more or less. "What the hell is going on?", The Spider looked at the man who walked out cautiously.

"Carnage...", The male scientist said. "He... he escaped while we were studying his symbiote. I managed to lock him out of here, but the security guards he killed just... reanimated themselves!", the man said as The Spider looked on in shock. "The-Then the Scorpion came in and it... well."

"He never had that power before. Open the door.", The Spider said as he looked at the door in anger.

"You're going after him?!"

"Of course, a man told me that I have the power to help people. So it's my responsibility. Something none of you would understand!", The Spider said as the scientist nodded.

"But first, I need to give you something.", the scientist walked back to the room then back to him with a container. It had this black ball held within. "This is like what Carnage is, another one of its kind. This one is different though, we purged it of its wild instincts."

The Spider knew Venom wouldn't be able to get here in time, or if he knows what's going on. "... fine.", he said reluctantly as he punches through the glass container, the black ball exploding into go and wrapping around him.

The synthetic Symbiote wrapped around his body snugly and tightly. His blue HUD now turning green.

The suit itself took on a similar texture to his spandex outfit. However, there were several things missing, such as his boots and gloves being all black and replaced with white palms and soles respectively. His torso still sports the original design but it's white rather than red, now with a larger black spider on his chest and no spider on his back. The scientist nodded at him, opening the door and allowing The Spider passage through.


Silk swung through the city, now accompanied by Hobgoblin himself. "Knowing Otto, he'd be where they all came from, Oscorp. Obviously.", Hobgoblin said as he looked up and down from the bottom up. "Now then, shall we ma'am?", Hobgoblin said bowing respectfully.

"Of course, ladies first.", Silk said teasingly as they entered the building. Unaware for whats to come.


The Spider drop kicked one of the Carnage Zombies, or at least the last of them. Carnage himself roared at a helicopter raining fire on him, before leaping away in a single bound. "Hey imma stop you whatever it takes!"

The Spider swung after him and narrowly caught up, but Carnage simply pulled himself with a tendril. He looked up to see multiple Carnages', though they had back spikes and no eyes. "Oh great, more of them."

He dodged out of the way of a claw attack, flipping and using their own attacks against them, he shot out a tendril from his back and formed a mallet from his hand, swinging it around violently. Using a web, he temporarily stunned one, then proceeded to drop kick that same one. The Spider used his webs and the creatures body as a weapon, slamming the Symbiote off of the Prisoners. Some he even recognized. "Can't believe Osborn went to these lengths."

The Spider swung through the infested grounds in which Carnage Infected prisoners roared as they attempted to catch them... but got electrocuted. Thankfully, some of the security drones burned the symbiotes off. "Score one for the big dudes!", the arachnid based hero. His lenses shifted as he saw a living and not infected human nearby. "Huh, cool."

The black suited Spider swung over and landed at a cell, the security wall went down as the man ran out. "Spider! Thank you!", the worker said with an exasperated smile.

"Dont thank me yet!", The Spider said as he picked the man up and threw him over his shoulder. He shot out an organic web line from the suits biomass. Being careful to bring him to a large hole that Scorpion blew in.

"Thanks! Good luck with them, you're gonna need it!", the worker then ran out at high speeds due to the adrenaline rush.

"You're tellin me.", The Spider said as he saw more of the four legged Carnage like creatures. "Suit?"

{{Yes sir?}} the suit's A.I. responded to him.

The Spider held out both arms. "Wrist Cannons!"

{{Auto Cannons Synthesized!}}, Immediately the black mass around his hands moved and popped up, shooting out bullets at the creatures in surprising levels of speed. "Oh man! Why didn't I get this earlier?!"

The Spider's wrist cannons returned to the biomass as he popped his knuckles. "I'll think I'll keep you.", Patrick said as he looked at the suit.

{{It would be a pleasure to be kept sir.}}, the Symbiote said as it formed two maces from his hands as he swung them around. "Symbiote eat your heart out!", he yelled as the last of them in the area were finally killed off

The suit's A.I alerted him of something happening outside, shooting out a web and swinging away, landing on a box outside. "Holy shit...", The Spider said as he immediately noticed a Quinjet crashed. "Guess their boss noticed this too..."

The Spider was tackled by Carnage, laughing at him manically as he pinned the Symbiote clad hero to the ground. He was about to slap him with a tendril, but was punched in the jaw and kicked off him. Using this opportunity, The Spider leapt up and pinned the serial killer to the ground, punching him repeatedly. "You're a monster! No mind, no soul!", he said as he threw him into the nearby reactor.

Carnage leapt out and roared, putting himself out. "Poor little spider, you're just not ready to see the truth are you?", he said as he looked around. "Heh, I've finally got my family now. And there are so many mouths to feed... maybe I'll feed them you."

"I was planning on webbing your lungs up from the inside, but I decided against it cuz I'm not like that. But you're starting to talk me out of it.", The Spider said jokingly, yet Carnage laughed.

"You think you're joking, but I know what you won't admit to yourself! When I killed those criminals, you were happy, you were grateful to me weren'tyou?", Carnage said as he remembered the day he was captured, he wasn't killing random people back then, he was killing other killers. "It's not too late to understand, I'll tell you whatever you want to know."

"You told me you were searching for answers in death, but what were you doing when I stopped you?" The Spider asked him cocking his eyebrows. "Making others like you? Make the family you never had one. You say you kill to understand Death, what were you trying to understand?"

"The meaning, the truth, the secrets it reveals to all of us that we're afraid to see.", Carnage said, he had no insanity in his voice. He stated this, plain and simple.

"Yeah I get that, death is apart of life it happens. Sometimes for a reason, sometimes for no reasons. You're wasting your time looking for some cosmic answer in death, life is where you find meaning.", The Spider said as Carnage let out a cackle.

"You and I are so alike, much more than you think."

"What makes you think we're so alike anyways?!"

"You wanted to kill those criminals, end them forever.", Carnage said as The Spider let out a sigh, which face him a sign that he was right. "I knew it!"

"But that's human. Anger, wanting revenge, it's not wrong to feel those emotions...", The Spider remembered his earlier days in which he hunted down criminals to kill the man who killed his father. "It's wrong to act on them."

"Here's the real difference between us, I'm at peace with who I am!", Carnage yelled out as he opened his mouth, revealing Cletus underneath.

"Well you shouldn't be."

"And you should? Then why aren't you?"

"Sorry Cletus, but talking to a serial killer isn't gonna give me any answers.", The Spider said as Cletus laughed.

"I know what will! Death!", Cletus said as the Symbiote reformed over his face roaring at him again.

"Gotta say, daring look you got going on. You don't see many people these days wearing their muscles on the outside.", The Spider said as he got into a fighting stance. He flipped away from an attack from Carnage. "Why can't we have a dance battle?!"

"Because I'd win in that anyways.", Carnage said sarcastically as he formed a blade, The Spider doing the same as they clashed their symbiotic blades. "Why are you fighting me? We're so alike, practically family already!", Carnage stated as-a-matter of factly. "Admit it, what I did to criminals is no different than what Brock's doing. No different than what you want to do, I can help you get there, be free... like me."

"You're wrong, I do this to stop people like you! Plus I don't see you in the family reunions.", The Spider said as he grabbed him by the arm and threw him into another reactor, causing it to explode.

Carnage leapt out, screaming in pain as he pointed at the arachnid. "The world is an illusion, along with you and everyone like you. I'll make sure to wake you up!"

"I'd rather you not, like after the entire week I'm having I want a nice long nap.", The Spider said as he catapulted himself at Carnage, punching him repeatedly. "Hey stop hitting your face with my fist!"

Carnage roared as he threw the Symbiote clad hero away. "Wrist cannons!", he yelled out as the wrist cannons synthesized, shooting out more missiles at him. Carnage dodged the attacks effortlessly using his supernatural level of agility. "I'll stop shooting as soon as you give up!"

"Sounds boring.", Carnage statues as he lunged at The Spider, only to be kicked and sent to the last reactor. Carnage ran out and screamed in pain, the Symbiote slowly dying, Cletus crawling out with deep exhaled. "No... I don't wanna be alone again... please just let me die."

"No Cletus, that's not the answer Cletus. None of us are gonna find the answers here.", The Spider said as Cletus passed out. "Now then, for the final act!"


/End/