answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Animortal28: Next to zero at this point.
Mr Holoscene: I intend to go all the way up to the events of the first Injustice Game, but not every major character is gonna make it and the storyline in years three, four and five will be radically different. Same themes; Magic, Gods, Villains, just the events in said years will be different or not happen at all in certain cases.
Jason Chandler: He'd probably try to make some sort of deal with the guy before getting his head blown off.
darthwolf: I wouldn't say it's his endgame, if Trigon happens to die, he won't complain.
keyblade master cole: We'll see soon enough.
DeimosVulcan12: It wasn't just Venom that ruined her and Peter's relationship, their both at fault too, Venom just took advantage is all and made sure that they ended up broken up, isolating Peter even more. Venom's sorta a toxic, manipulative, abusive partner in that sense.
Ace0-Spades: I honestly just write up a chapter and post and see where it goes. Really don't have much of a plan for these sort of things, I just do it.
Jonrocksthestar: Peter already sees Superman is beyond saving. Has since he redirected one of Captain Atom's blasts into him and crippled Batman. Unlike Bruce, Peter is facing the very real possibility of death because of Superman's actions.
Guest: Venom and the Red Lantern Ring aren't really doing anything to his cancer, if anything Venom's presence sorta heals and contains it while the Ring is just there.
I craft experiences: Yes.
Loopin: Don't worry, the Regime will be taking a few L's in this chapter too and even more in Year 3. Like major ones.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC characters seen, mentioned or used.
Rage is an emotion that Venom has become well acquainted with over the centuries.
It's like a fire, hot, powerful, and all consuming, no one is immune to it's affects. At times it can be both one's greatest source of power and strength and at others, their very weakness.
Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-man, the first human Venom ever encountered and bonded to, and his personal favorite, was very much a rage filled man. Underneath all the smiles, cheap quips and and even cheaper jokes laid dormant a monster. Fueled slowly over the years by a never ending river of rage that began the day Peter's mother and father died. Deepened by the lost of his uncle only years later, widened by the failure to save Gwen, darkened by the lost of his family to another's hunt, Aunt May... and that raging rover of anger was made ever more darker by Venom's own machinations.
"We truly belong with them... our rage will spread across this world like venom" the Symbiote whispered as he stared at the glowing power ring on his hand with a look of contemplation.
Above him, miles in the sky, the last of the Green Lanterns were being wiped out by the Yellow Lanterns and Superman's allies. Their bodies were falling to the Earth below like miniature asteroids, striking the ground with enough force to level entire city blocks. Dozens, hundreds of green and yellow rings took flight into the air, seeking out new wielders as their previous ones perished in this conflict.
With a growl of annoyance, Venom glanced up into the sky and searched it for the greatest threat to his current state of being. It wasn't Superman or his own damned Power Ring of fear or the legion of useless Yellow Lanterns, or even the Kryptonian off shoot that was currently lying in a crater the size of Manhattan a few miles outside of Las Vegas, still dazed from his battle with Superman. No, it was-
"Holy mother of god..."
Venom grinned darkly at the Lantern before him "Hello Guuuuuy..."
Guy Gardner, the last living Green Lantern of Sector 2814, stared in complete and utter shock at the being before him, for once at a total lost of words. It wasn't hard to figure out who he was looking at, he's hung out with Peter enough times to know who and what Venom was... but to see the Symbiote with a Power Ring, one fueled by Rage of all thigs, wasn't something he'd ever expect to happen.
"What the hell happened to you Webs?" Guy said with shock as Venom began to slowly rise from the ground and hover towards him.
"Parker isn't here, he's sleeping" Venom cooed with a chuckle as he held up his ring, causing it to glow a ominous red "Sleeping so that he no longer has to live this unfortunate life. But once everything is put right, we'll wake him up"
"Now why don't I believe that?" Guy asked in a strained voice, his entire body was sore, his arm was broken, most of the Lantern Taskforce was either dead or dying with only a handful having been able to pull out, Mogo was dead, along with Ganthet and he was all alone against a Red Lantern with a Ring at only twenty percent power.
It was official... Guy was in deep shit.
"You know, you should feel honored, in some weird twisted way" Venom chuckled as he slowly hovered around Guy.
"Oh, in what way?" Guy said with a frown as he tried to think up of a plan.
"Your possibly the most dangerous being to us at the moment" Venom said as his barbed tongue lashed out and licked at something on the side of his face "You know more about how Red Lantern rings work than anyone. True the others undoubtedly know the broad details, but you? A former Red Lantern yourself? You know more about this Ring and what it can do than anyone else. Be a shame if our fun was ruined because you went blabbing to others"
At this, Guy couldn't help but snort "Wow, your actually worried that I'm gonna tattle on how your ring works to the rest?"
"Worried wouldn't be the right word, more of... annoyed" Venom countered, his glowing red 'eyes' narrowing slightly as he came to a stop and turned his body towards Guy "We don't like being annoyed Guy"
Guy hummed at this "Huh, you know Venom, I think you and I would've gotten along real fine... too bad you had to go and take over my bud's body"
Without another word, Guy fired off a concentrated beam of pure willpower at Venom. The Red Lantern hissed as his body was engulfed in the green light before a sudden surge of red light from within completely tore through the emerald colored energy and forced Guy back.
"Shit-" Guy said as he brought up a shield to block a clawed swipe from Venom.
The shield held, but deep trenches were left in the surface from where Venom's claws dug in, enhanced and strengthened by the Red Lantern ring. With a roar of rage, Venom continued to attack the shield, clawing at it like a rabid animal, slowly tearing it away. Guy gritted his teeth in frustration as he used what little power he had left in to repair and strengthen the shield before one of Venom's fists tore through the shield and left several deep bleeding claw marks on his face.
"GAAHHHH!" Guy screamed in pain as it felt like the claw marks were burning before he received a powerful punch to the gut that knocked the wind out of him before a elbow to the back sent him flying towards the ground, hundreds of feet below.
Venom watched Guy fall with a laugh that intensified when the Green Lantern slammed into the ground, creating a small explosion of dust, earth and bits of emerald energy.
"Ow..." Guy moaned as he laid there, his broken arm hurting even more, his left leg bent at an unnatural angle and his back feeling like someone took a sledge hammer to it.
"It's a pity that your so exhausted from your earlier fighting Guy" Venom hissed as he slowly lowered himself to the ground in front of the injured Green Lantern "After fighting two damned Kryptonians and killing them, killing you as you are now seems so... disappointing"
"How... do you... t-think... I f-f-feel?" Guy said as he struggled to look up at Venom with narrowed, bloodshot eyes "I'm getting beaten... by a... living pile... of alien shit... w-wearing... a c-chea-p... ring"
Venom growled as he reached down and grabbed Guy by the throat and hoisted him up into the air and held him, his feet several inches off the ground.
"On second thought, We're going to enjoy killing you-" Venom began before he stopped and his 'eyes' narrowed before he slowly turned and looked at what was behind him.
Guy followed the Symbiote's gaze, even though with the way his throat was being held he didn't have much of a choice, and felt his eyes widen at the sight before the duo.
It was Hal... no longer wearing a Green Lantern power ring, but a yellow one... and he was standing, hovering, beside Sinestro and several of his Yellow Lanterns.
"What the hell... Venom?" Hal said as he took in the Red Lantern's appearance with surprise.
"Fascinating" Sinestro said with a raised brow "I did not think a symbiote could manage controlling a Red Lantern. It seems I was wrong"
"Oh now I know it's the end of the world if fucking Sinestro of all people is admitting he's wrong" Guy wheezed as he tried to pry Venom's hand off his throat before wincing at the feeling of Venom's claws pinching his skin "Ow!"
"Why are you here Green- oops, my mistake, Yellow Lantern?" Venom asked with a snicker as he held up his free hand, the one with the red power ring "Want to test these out?"
"I'm here for Guy, Venom... and you now apparently" Hal said in a cold tone.
"Aww, how sweet of you Jordan, really. It would've moved our heart..." Venom tapped on his chest before giving the Yellow Lanterns a needle tooth filled maw smirk "If this body still had one to move, heh-heh-heh-heh"
"H-Hey Hal, w-wanna t-tag team this c-chump, like t-the good old days?" Guy asked with a pained grin "Maybe ditch the y-yellow. So not your c-color"
"You don't get to talk! You killed John!" Hal snapped at the Lantern, causing the grin he was sporting to falter and be replaced with a look of confusion.
"...What?"
"It's true, I saw him" Sinestro said with a look that both Venom and Guy thought was just short of smug and far from sympathetic, not that Hal noticed it given he was too busy glaring at the two.
"Since when did you kill him?" Venom glanced at Guy with curiosity.
While it did take a few minutes for Venom to fly down from the artic and all the way to Coast City, least the outskirts, and there were quite a few Green Lanterns dead on the ground, he hadn't seen any signs of John Stewart... assuming there was anything left that is. Who knows, maybe Guy killed him somewhere else on the planet or completely destroyed his body.
"I hadn't killed anybody!" Guy yelled in frustration at both Venom and Hal before he noticed a few Yellow Lanterns lying dead a few meters away "Except those guys. And a few others in orbit... look all I've killed were members of that fucking slimly mustache wearing asshole's Corps!"
Guy knew that Hal could be... gullible at times, not as bad as Kyle but still pretty easily fooled compared to Stewart, but to actually take Sinestro of all beings for his word, about him killing John when it was likely Sinestro himself that did the deed? That was a level of dumbassery too stupid to not be pissed off about in Guy's opinion.
"That mustache is pretty slimly looking... and your former friend doesn't look so good in yellow" Venom nodded at the former Green Lantern before he a beam of yellow energy shot out from Hal and towards the two before a red brick wall appeared in front of the energy blast and blocked it "Heh, really, you tried to get the drop on something that thinks faster than human thought and has a precognitive sense on top of that?"
"Kyle had all the brains out of the four of us" Guy said with a shrug as he slowly raised his hand and aimed his ring at Venom's head, which was still turned and staring at the red wall as cracks began to form from the Yellow Lantern onslaught outside "Pays that he was also an art-AHHHHHH!"
Venom growled at the Green Lantern as he began to emit droplets of his rage into Guy's skin, burning it. With a flick of the wrist, Venom sent Guy flying and turned his body fully towards the construct he made as it finally gave out and crumbled on the combined power of Hal, Sinestro and several other of his Lanterns.
"Deal with Venom Sinestro, Guy's mine" Hal growled as he made to fly past Venom when the Red Lantern suddenly lashed out with a hard light construct in the form of a spider's leg, forcing the former pilot to back away les he end up skewered through the chest.
"Guy's mine little Lantern" Venom hissed "We don't exactly trust you to kill him"
"He killed JOHN!" Hal shouted at the symbiote.
"Your saying this man's name like we know who he is or give a damn" Venom said with a blank look on his face.
In reality, he knew who John was. John Stewart, one of the Green Lanterns of Earth. Peter, from what Venom could read in his rage filled mind, had teamed up with him once before and they were friendly enough with one another.
Hal snarled at Venom before the Red Lantern was suddenly encompassed in a dome of pure yellow light. Hal turned to see Sinestro, along with his fellow Sinestro Corps members Lyssa Dark and Arkillo, were behind the Red Lantern's imprisonment.
"Go, we'll deal with this beast" Sinestro waved the newest addition to his corps away with a disinterested look on his face as he stared at the trapped Red Lantern "Pity, I expected better from a Red Lan-"
Sinestro was cut off by a large crimson red blade suddenly tearing through the energy dome and head straight for Arkillo. The Longtime Sinestro Corps member, and one of Sinestro's most powerful servants, blinked at the blade before it sliced his head clean in two. Lyssa had managed to erect a barrier to block the blade when it suddenly turned towards her and attempted to impale her. Sinestro frowned at the sight of Arkillo's corpse before he saw the dome he and Lyssa were struggling to maintain was cracking and crimson hate filled energy was leaking out, almost like the yellow construct was bleeding.
Sinestro made a face as he ceased applying any more power to the dome and allowed it to dissipate, revealing a snarling Venom.
"That was... unpleasant" he hissed.
"I'm surprised that Atrocitus is taking any interest in this conflict" Sinestro remarked as he slowly circled Venom with a contemplative look on his face.
"I'm not" Hal said as he took up position on Venom's flank "Any chance to stick it to the Guardians, he'll be there"
"We have no allegiance to Atrocitus... whoever the hell that is" Venom growled as he glanced at the three Yellow Lanterns with narrowed 'eyes' "Leave, and maybe we won't hunt you down later and kill you"
"Your in no position to make demands beast" Sinestro said with a confident smirk "We still have you outnumbered three to one"
"Your right" Venom said with a slow nod as he glared at Sinestro before grinning "We'll give you a few minutes to go find a dozen more to help you"
With a yell, Sinestro sent a barrage of spears towards Venom, who easily brushed them all aside by creating multiple spider like limbs and sent them forward to bat away the projectiles. Hal formed two busses and sent them racing towards the Red Lantern, forcing him to leap out of the way only to be sent flying through the air when the constructs suddenly exploded. The Symbiote tumbled through the sky for a moment before he slammed into a wall created by by Lyssa before more walls appeared and quickly surrounded the avatar of rage.
"Walls?" Venom said with confusion as he ran a hand across the construct's surface before he glanced up towards the sky, where a lone opening remained with the three Yellow Lanterns looking down at him "You do realize crawling up walls is a specialty of ours?"
"Kinda hard to crawl up walls when your being blasted to kingdom come" Hal said as he created dozens of artillery guns and aimed them all at Venom "Like shooting fish in a barrel. Or in this case, a emo Spider-man with a hard on for red cock rings"
"What can we say? We're committed, unlike you!" Venom growled before Hal had his constructs open fire on him.
A few dozen meters away, Guy slowly climbed back to his feet with a pained wince, his body felt like it was used by doomsday as a door matt.
"Christ I'm gonna need a stiff one after this" Guy said as he turned to see the distant yellow tower that Sinestro and his Lanterns made and the barrage of energy they were sending into it.
It still was surreal with what's happened, Superman becoming a tyrannical asshole, working with Sinestro, Hal actually joining them... Kyle and now John being dead, likely Sinestro's doing. Peter being a Red Lantern on top of being Venom again, Ollie being dead...
"Leave home for a few months and everything goes to hell" Guy said as he slowly climbed back to his feet and contacted the Insurgency "Hey, anyone still alive out there?"
"Guy?" Oracle's voice spoke up with surprise and relief "Oh thank god..."
"Don't thank him yet sweetheart" Guy said as he watched a bright red column of light suddenly shoot out from the tower and slam into the three Yellow Lanterns "What's going on Oracle?"
"It's... it's fucked Guy... I'm not gonna try and sugar coat it. The Green Lanterns have been pushed back, Mogo and Ganthet are both gone and Superman now has a Yellow Power Ring. He's killing off any Green Lanterns still in Earth's upper atmosphere"
"Fuck" Guy closed his eyes in frustration before he took a deep breath "Okay, what about Sodam Yat? Where's he at?"
"Still down and out outside of Vegas from what I'm seeing. We've sent Huntress and Batwoman to get him the hell out of there. Right now, he's the only being on the planet currently that can take Superman on as he is now"
"What about the old man, Scott?" Guy said as he glanced up towards the sky where faint yellow and green explosions, the latter disappearing far to fast for his liking, in the hopes he'd see the first Green Lantern of Earth.
"Unknown, we lost contact with him after Superman took his new ring and flew into orbit to fight Ganthet..." Oracle said with dread in her voice "And Guy's there's something else you need to know. A Red Lantern ring has just-"
"I know, I'm watching Venom use it to wipe his ass with Sinestro, Hal and that creepy ass book chick with a thing for chains" Guy said as he watched Venom tear his way free of Lyssa's constructs and fly towards the dazed Yellow Lanterns.
"You have any idea how dangerous he can be?" Oracle asked as the sound of typing could be heard in the background "Venom's terrifying enough on his own given his ability to attach himself, enhance and control just about anyone he comes into contact with, coupled with Spider-man's abilities, his 'spider-sense' in particular, trying to land a hit on him is gonna be tough enough"
"In terms of sheer raw power he's not gonna be on par with the likes of a Guardian" Guy said with a sigh of relief "But next to Superman, he's currently the most dangerous Power Ring wielding being on the planet if not the most"
"Dammit!" Oracle hissed in annoyance.
"I'm gonna try and ware him out" Guy said as he took a few deep breaths to steady his nerves "I don't think he's recharged his ring yet, or really knows how to. He's good from what I'm seeing, but he's still kinda new to this whole thing. I think it's just sheer fucking adrenaline he's running on at the moment"
"You'll be on your own if you do Guy. We literally can't spare anyone" Oracle warned the Green Lantern.
"I'll be fine" Guy said as he shot off into the sky towards the fighting Red and Yellow Lanterns.
...
"HOLD HIM!" Sinestro yelled as he and Hal struggled to keep Venom pinned to the ground with yellow chains while Lyssa was blasting the symbiote with everything she had in her ring.
"I'M TRYING!" Hal yelled with gritted teeth as he poured more of his fear into the ring, strengthening it's power as he watched Venom struggling to stand up and move.
So far the Red Lantern was proving to be one hell of a pain in the ass in the former Green Lantern's opinion. He knew Red Lanterns were tough, but this one was proving to be almost as big of a pain to deal with as Atrocitus. Whatever attacks that Venom didn't dodge thanks to his current host's spider-sense were either brushed off or endured before the Red Lantern replied with a barrage of hate filled energy blasts or constructs. Just getting him pinned long enough to barrage his body with Lyssa's ring was a miracle as far as Hal or Sinestro were concerned.
'Thank God there isn't a lot of these damn symbiotes left in the universe. Don't need anymore latching on to Lanterns' Hal thought as he watched Venom begin to break some of the chains holding him with sheer raw physical exertion despite the fact the ground around him was being reduced to a charred crisp by Lyssa's barrage of yellow light.
Suddenly a powerful blast of energy erupted from Venom, tearing through the yellow chains holding him in place and forcing the three Yellow Lanterns back, their shields up to protect themselves from the hateful energy. With a roar, Venom aimed his ring at Sinestro and fired off a powerful beam that sent the former Green Lantern flying through the air. Lyssa attempted to fly after him and catch him but the Symbiote suddenly appeared in front of the alien woman and backhanded her to the ground with enough force to leave the woman lying in a crater on the ground.
"Now it's just us Jor-" Venom began as he turned towards Hal only to glide to the left and watch with amusement as Hal flew by him, holding a sword like construct in his hands.
Venom reached out and grabbed Hal's ankle as the man flew past him and began to spin around, his grip on the former Green Lantern like iron as he built up speed. Hal tried to make the Red Lantern let go of him by blasting his face with yellow light but all it seemed to do is make Venom spin faster and faster until he suddenly released Hal and sent the man flying through the air like a yellow comet.
"Hehehe, Hal's comet" Venom chuckled as he watched the newly christened Yellow Lantern fly through the air before he flew up to dodge a large green hand construct from grabbing him.
Venom turned and looked to see Guy aiming at him with his power ring before he created a bi-plane construct fitted with missiles and sent it flying towards the symbiote. Venom's eyes narrowed as he formed a massive spider with his own ring and flung it towards the approaching plane and watched as the spider latched on to the plane and began to tear it apart before both constructs erupted into a explosion of red and green energy. Guy was forced to shield his eyes from the intensity of the blast's light and was thus unable to see venom fly through the explosion and slam into him, sending them both tumbling towards the ground below.
"LET GO!" Guy shouted as he charged up a enough energy in his ring to knock Black Adam on his ass and sent it right into Venom's face, causing the symbiote to roar in pain and anger and force him to let go as they neared the ground.
The two Lanterns slammed into the ground on opposite sides of the crater where Lyssa still laid, unmoving and blood leaking from her nose and mouth. Guy let out a pained groan as he tried to move before pain erupted from his back and caused him to grit his teeth and hiss.
"R-Ring... d-d-damage?" Guy said with a pained cough as he found it a little hard to breath, a rib or two was likely cracked or broken.
"Severe bruising to the spine, hairline fractures detected in left shoulder blade. Minor internal bleeding throughout" the ring said in a dry automated voice.
"Great..." Guy said as he just laid there and tried to concentrate on encasing the parts of his body that were damaged in a sort of pseudo cast and exoskeletal rig of some sort.
Not too far away, Venom climbed back to his feet with a grunt and looked around for a moment before he noticed Guy and grinned and began to walk towards the Lantern. Guy saw this and tried to raise his arm to blast Venom with a shot of pure will power but found his aim faltering and let it fall to the ground.
"Run out of will to keep foghting Guy?" Venom grinned darkly at the red haired Lantern as he slowly approached the wounded man, stepping on the head of the Lyssa Dark as he went, crushing the remnants of her head in a shower of gore.
"W-What, me?" Guy coughed as he slowly forced himself back up to his feet with a pained groan just as Venom reached him "Nah... just... just need a breather... honest"
"Oh, than let us help you up" Venom cooed as he ensnared Guy in a red light and began to slowly lift the wounded Lantern into the air "If it's any consolation, you'll be the first Green Lantern We've ever killed!"
"Yippie..." Guy groaned as he stared at Venom with a look that was almost resigned.
Venom grinned and began to open his maw to breath a inferno of crimson energy into the man's face when suddenly several yellow knives imbedded themselves into his back. The hellish red light in Venom's mouth and throat died down as he slowly turned to see that he was hit by Hal who was now back on his face and glaring at the Symbiote.
"Really, again?" Venom chuckled as he dropped Guy and turned towards the Yellow Lantern "You really are a glutton for punishment, aren't you?"
"You caught me by surprise the first time around" Hal said as his ring began to glow "I didn't know what you were capable of with that ring, but now that I got an idea, your ass is screwed"
"Big talk from a worthless little turnco-" Venom began before he leaped back as several yellow clamps tore through the ground and attempted to entrap his legs.
With a roar, Venom aimed his ring at Hal and unleashed a beam of red energy towards the former Green Lantern. Hal easily flew passed it and fired off a blast of his own, having the light quickly morph into a large fist with spikes on the knuckles. Venom growled at approaching construct and formed a ball around himself just before the construct made contact, sending his protective sphere, and by proxy him, flying into the air.
"You think you can just throw on a Power Ring and know how to use it?" Hal yelled as he flew after Venom, blasting his shield with missiles, creating powerful explosions that seemed to send ripples through the air "Well news flash buddy, it takes a lot more than that to know how to use a Power Ring, no matter the emotion"
"Oh great, we're getting 'Lantern lessons one oh one'" Venom gave the impression he was rolling his eyes even though he didn't possesses the irises or pupils to properly pull it off "Someone just kill us at this point-"
"I'll be happy to oblige" Hal said as he created two massive arm like constructs and use them to bat Venom's sphere even farther away, sending him through the air at speeds in the high triple digits, breaking the sound barrier as he went.
Hal quickly raced after the red ball, having the two arms form a massive baseball bat and use it to continue hammering into Venom's protective ball. The Red Lantern growled as he felt his construct cracking with each concussive hit from Hal's comical sized baseball bat construct. He was also beginning to feel the strain of using the Lantern Ring so much. Now that the rush of having such power flowing through him was beginning to ware off, Venom or rather Peter's body was beginning to tire, even with Venom pushing it beyond it's unnatural limits. He needed to end this fight and soon, or else he was going to end up dead, or rather Peter will end up dead.
And Venom would never allow that.
With a grunt, Venom had his sphere form several arm like appendages and lash out and grab Hal's bat before it struck him again. Several of the limbs cracked and shattered under the force Hal's bat struck them, but the rest held and with a roar, Venom had the shield melt away and unleashed a beam of energy right towards the surprised Yellow Lantern. Hal tried to bring up a powerful enough shield to defend himself, but Venom's blast was too quick and struck the human Lantern before his defense even fully formed. Venom watched Hal's body plummet towards the ground with a sinister grin and was about to follow before he turned and caught a fist thrown at him by Guy. The Green Lantern's eyes widened as Venom glared at him and offered the symbiote a weak grin before he was pulled into a vicious headbutt the broke his nose and sent the red haired Lantern flying back in a spin.
"We've always hated fucking red heads" Venom grumbled as he followed after Guy to finish the damn Lantern off once and for all.
Guy tried to stop his momentum but a blast of energy from Venom sent him careening towards the ground in a spin before he slammed into a small cluster of trees, sending thousands of splinters of wood everywhere.
'I think Swamp Thing could've felt that' Guy thought as Venom suddenly landed on his chest with both feet, sending the man deeper into the ground and breaking several ribs at the same time.
Venom growled as he reached down and grabbed Guy by the throat and hoisted him into the air, leaving his feet just inches off the ground. The red haired Lantern coughed up a bit of blood as he was brought face to face with Venom's snarling visage, a mixture of super heated blood and crimson red energy leaking from his maw.
"UGH... you ever hear... of breath mints...?" Guy groaned as he took a full blast of Venom's breath into his face "Jesus... you smell like... what I threw up... after Mardi Gras"
Venom's eyes narrowed to thin red slits as he stared into Guy's with growing rage, his grip on the man's neck tightening slightly and cutting off his air flow. Guy gasped as he reached up to try and pry Venom's hands off his throat but two solid red hand constructs emerged from Venom's back and reached around to grab the man's hands and pull them off of Venom's. Laughing with dark amusement, Venom continued to slowly choke the life out of Guy, savoring the look of terror in the man's eyes as his face began to turn blue from lack of oxygen.
"Do give my regards to your fellow Corpsmen when you get to the other side Lantern" Venom hissed as he prepared to crush Guy's neck entirely before he suddenly dropped the Lantern and turned to form a shield construct before he was hit by a yellow flash that seemed to tackle Venom, grab him, and suddenly fly off, leaving a coughing Guy.
"Yeah..." he said with a horse voice as blood leaked from his mouth "You... you better run... oh fuck me..."
Yeah, Guy was definitely getting a drink after this whole shit show was over with... assuming he didn't just die right than and there.
...
Venom roared in rage as he looked down to see what had hit and grabbed him and was greeted to the sight of Hal Jordan, his suit torn and bleeding in a few places. With a hiss, Venom brought his hands down on the man's back, creating small shockwaves and flashes of red and yellow light as his fists came into contact with Hal's forcefield, generated by Hal's Ring.
"LET GO! LET GO! LET GO!" Venom screamed in outrage as Hal took them farther and farther away from Guy.
"ALRIGHT THAN!" Hal said as he pushed Venom away and then aimed his ring right into Venom's face and unleashed a powerful beam of pure Fear right into the Red Lantern's head.
The intensity of the light would've been enough to blind a normal person and could be seen for miles in any direction. The beam of energy itself could've reached as far as the moon if Hal shot at it from Earth and left a hole that would've torn right through to the natural satellite's crust and towards it's core. Venom's roar of pain was lost in the blast as he was sent flying towards the ground and slammed into it with a massive explosion of yellow light, sending hundreds of tons of earth into the air. But Hal didn't let up, he kept pouring more and more of his ring's energy into the beam while mentally forming several jet like constructs and sent them right into the inferno he was creating. The unrelenting assault seemed to go on for hours as the ground shook and cracked under the force of Hal's attack, creating a massive cloud of dust that blanketed the entire area.
Eventually Hal relented and hovered there, waiting to see if Venom would respond, not that he expected him to, the amount of power he just hit the Red Lantern with would've been enough to ring Superman's bell.
'And this fucker sure as hell isn't as tough as him' Hal thought confidently as he had his ring scan for any signs of Red Lantern energy.
Several seconds passed before Hal's ring chimed with a response to his earlier command.
"Warning, Red Lantern Energy still det-" the ring began before it was cut off as Hal was tackled from behind and sent towards the ground with a clawed hand holding his head straight.
"THAT HURT!" Venom roared at the Lantern as they flew towards the massive crater Hal made.
Parts of Venom's 'suit' were torn and burnt, exposing Peter's bruised and bleeding skin underneath before it was slowly covered by the symbiote's biomass. His Red Power Ring was beeping in warning, it was low on energy and needed to be replenished. Venom needed to end this fight here and now, though it seemed luck was on the Red Lantern's side as it noticed that Hal seemed to be just as out of it as he was...
The two Lanterns slammed into the ground with a small explosion of red and yellow light. Hal tried to move, but Venom kept his head pinned down into the earth face first with one hand while the other grabbed the hand with his yellow power ring on it and brought it up towards his mouth. With a growl, Venom stuck Hal's hand into his jaws and bit down on his fingers, hard.
"AAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Hal screamed in pain as his fingers were completely severed by Venom and his Yellow Lantern suit dissolved as his physical connecting to the ring ended.
With a disgusted sound, Venom spat the man's ring and bloodied fingers out of his mouth and forcibly turned Hal around and pinned him to the ground with his foot.
"Should've stayed in green Jordan... you might've had a chance against us, hehehe!" Venom grinned as he stared down at Hal for a moment before he formed a blade out of his arm, it's tip coated in red energy.
"W-Wait... d-d-don't-" Hal began before Venom stabbed his blade into the man's chest and unleashed a blast of power that engulfed the first human Green Lantern of Sector 2814 in a blaze or scarlet red hate.
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And done.
Next chapter, Year Two annual...